Recent Articles
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NetGear Cuts Earnings Outlook
Home and business networking products maker NetGear cut its third-quarter revenue outlook primarily due to shipment delays in September, sending its shares down as much as 24 percent. The Santa Clara, California-based company said it experienced weakness in demand for consumer products across all channels and in all geographies, particularly in the service provider channel. The…
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Microsoft Needs a Coalition of the Willing
In the battle between Microsoft and Google for supremacy over the next generation of computing, Microsoft does not appear to be making much use of its traditional channel allies. Just about everything that Microsoft does and says about cloud computing comes across as fairly reactionary. Essentially, Microsoft has let Google set the tone for…
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Has Symantec Lost Its Way?
This week, security and storage solution providers will gather in Washington, D.C., for Symantec’s Partner Engage conference. Absent from the proceedings will be Julie Parrish, the iconic channel chief that has been the face of the Symantec channel for nearly six years. Parrish oversaw a litany of problems in her tenure as vice president…
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Parrish Departing Symantec for NetApp
Iconic channel chief and longtime leader of the Symantec partner program Julie Parrish is leaving the security and storage vendor at the end of the month to pursue new career opportunities. Reports of Parrish joining NetApp are unconfirmed. But sources say that she’ll be taking the position vacated by Leonard Iventosch last summer. NetApp released a…
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Symantec Partners: Parrish Leaves Big Shoes to Fill
Solution providers are shocked that Julie Parrish is leaving Symantec, and say she’s leaving big shoes to fill in the global channel chief office. In an internal memo obtained by Channel Insider, Symantec Chief Operating Officer Enrique Salem announced Parrish would leave Symantec at the end of October. Symantec confirmed that Parrish was leaving to…
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DandH Increases Credit for Resellers
VARs are wary of the uncertainty and chaos in financial markets and its potential to filter down to their businesses as well, but they haven’t seen that happen. Yet. That’s the message they sent to their distributor at D&H Distributing’s conference in Pennsylvania this week, according to Dan Schwab, co-president of the Harrisburg, Pa.-based SMB…
