Recent Articles
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Marathon Helps VARs Get Greener
Marathon Technologies’ twist on virtualization allows VARs to bring their customers to new levels of environmentally friendly technology through increased server consolidation and energy savings. The company’s EverRun software eliminates outages or downtime in Windows applications in both physical and virtual environments by synchronizing two standard Windows servers, including the operating system, applications, network…
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The New Channel Insider
Over the past few years, you’ve heard me talk about the channel as being dynamic, evolving and communal. I firmly believe that the channel is about partnership and that we all succeed by collaborating with our business partners and engaging in healthy competition with our peers. The future of the channel is in collaborative communities.…
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HP Promotes Insider to Head its Solutions Partner Organization
Spring seems to be the season of change for channel executives this year, with news of big changes recently at Intel, Arrow, Oracle and Cisco even lost its Linksys channel executive, Nigel Williams. And now Hewlett-Packard has appointed insider Enrique Lores to senior vice president of worldwide sales for its Personal Systems Group and head…
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Gilroy Out at Arrow
Andrew S. Bryant will replace co-presidents Kevin Gilroy and M. Catherine Morris at Arrow Electronics’ Enterprise Computing Solutions Group, the distributor announced this morning. Gilroy is leaving the company "to pursue other interests" and Morris will become chief strategy officer, according to a statement released by Arrow. Both Bryant and Morris will report directly to…
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MSPs Get Insurance Boost
Managed services providers are now able to enter deals with more confidence, following the launch of an MSP-specific professional liability insurance offering from the MSPAlliance. Previously MSPs would have to use liability insurance that was designed more for VARs, such as errors and omissions liability insurance, which could be restrictive for MSPs, according to Charles…
