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Lexmark Keeps New Channel Chiefs Undercover
Lexmark is keeping its two new channel chiefs off the radar. Mike Johnson and David Baird both took the helm of the printer vendor’s channel in early January, during the company’s “quiet period” – or weeks before it announced its earnings – and subsequently were not available for interviews, according to Lexmark. On Tuesday, the…
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Bell Micro Ramps Up Security Division
Bell Micro is ramping up its Security Division, formed in November 2008, with new vendors and a focus on helping solution providers maintain high margins and deliver holistic security solutions and services. Duncan Hume, who headed up Bell Micro’s United Kingdom security division and who serves as director for the North American security division, says…
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PC Makers Look to Woo SMBs, Resellers in 2009
PC makers may be looking to hedge their bets in 2009 with more attention to the small and midsize business market, and that means they’ll be looking to woo IT solution providers. Already two big PC makers—Lenovo and Toshiba—are doing just that, and they are entering a crowded field of heavy hitters such as Dell,…
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Training Is Everything
When you look at how things are shaping up in enterprise IT, the No. 1 priority is to improve business processes followed closely by reducing the cost of the IT budget. The issue that most IT organizations have, however, is that they are overly wedded to antiquated technologies and not close enough to the business…
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Panasonic Toughens Up New Toughbooks
The latest generation of Panasonic Toughbook notebook and tablet PCs will feature extended battery life, improved security, Intel Centrino processes, integrated Qualcomm wireless and management features previously only found in Dell and Hewlett-Packard machines. The Toughbook 30 laptop and Toughbook 19 tablet also come with a hefty price tag above $3,200. While other PC and…
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Has Fibre Channel over Ethernet’s Time Come?
After years of slow progress, Fibre Channel over Ethernet technology is poised to set off a seismic shift in the data center, storage and networking markets. Traditional data center infrastructure uses an Ethernet-based LAN infrastructure to connect servers to each other and a separate Fibre Channel network to connect servers and storage, says Jieming Zhu,…