Recent Articles
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Three Oil-Shocking Challenges to Hit the Channel
If you’re worried about the rising cost of gasoline and crude oil on your business, start thinking beyond basic transportation costs. Analysts are now saying that the cost for raw materials derived from crude oil will start following the same trajectory as gas prices at the pump. Setting aside the entire foreign dependency for energy…
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Move Over, AJAX, Microsoft Pushing ARAX
Move over, AJAX; Microsoft is pushing a different scenario, known as Asynchronous Ruby and XML, or ARAX. At the RailsConf conference for Ruby on Rails developers in Portland, Ore., on May 30, John Lam, creator of the IronRuby project at Microsoft, told eWEEK that as Microsoft’s Silverlight rich Internet application environment takes off it will…
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Eight Steps to Greener IT
By Channel Insider Staff 1. Virtualize Servers It’s time to end the "one application-one server" paradigm favored by many organizations. Moving multiple applications to a single server can boost server use by 15 to 90 percent.
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Using Web 2.0 to Keep Vendors Honest
A recent episode involving Dell, a Long Island VAR and a vocal customer provides a valuable case study in the use of Web communication tools, namely a blog, to get results from vendors. As reported in our blog last week, Bob Venero, CEO of Future Tech Enterprise, was having a meal with Michael Dell while…
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Managed Services Turn Green
As the push toward conserving energy gains momentum in the IT industry, managed services proponents see an opportunity to promote the model as a part of the Green IT movement. Managed services providers use Web-based tools to keep tabs on the health of their clients’ systems and networks. With the advent of Intel’s vPro technology,…
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VARs Choose VMware for Server Virtualization
It’s been said "no one gets fired for buying IBM." These days you may want to add VMware to that vaunted list. Solution providers have lined up in droves behind the market leader in virtualization – widely acknowledged to command about a 90-percent share. Rivals like Citrix’s Xen technology and Virtual Iron have not come…
