Recent Articles
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Dell, Toshiba Offering Tablet PCs
Dell and Toshiba are each bringing tablet PCs into the enterprise market this week, with both vendors offering their users touch-screen capabilities with the new models. The Dell Latitude XT tablet PC marks the first time the OEM has offered its own tablet PC for customers. Before this model rolled out Dec. 11, Dell had…
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Microsoft Clubs Counterfeiters
Microsoft is once again after resellers hawking counterfeit Microsoft goods worldwide. In the past several weeks, the software giant has filed 52 lawsuits against resellers who allegedly sold counterfeit Microsoft software on various online markets. Fifteen of the 52 lawsuits involved software traced to a Chinese counterfeiting syndicate, broken up earlier this year by Chinese…
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CompUSA to Close All 103 Stores
CompUSA will close or sell all of its retail outlets and TechPro services business, the retailer and its new owner, Gordon Brothers investment bank, announced Dec. 10. Gordon Brothers, which acquired the retailer Dec. 7, said the store’s 103 locations will remain open through the holiday season but offered no further details on the closing…
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Consolidation: The Wave Continues
About a year ago, Logicalis chairman Mike Cox made a bold prediction: The North America channel will consolidate within the next five years to a handful of mega-VARs and a few hundred (that’s hundreds, not thousands) smaller local and regional VARs. Cox should know about consolidation, since Logicalis—a $900 million global solution provider—is an aggressive…
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The Utility Company Adds to Services Menu
Managed services provider The Utility Company has launched an updated menu of services, including more security options, hosted VOIP and Web content management. The Connected Office Technology-as-a-Service Program (Connected Office 3.0) offers small and midsize businesses services covering every aspect of their IT system in five main areas: IT (network, desktop, security and storage), business…
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Dell’s Distribution Dilemma
One of the thornier issues that the channel as a whole is going to have to come to terms with now that Dell has a formal channel program is the company’s growing footprint as a distributor. Beyond selling millions of machines, Dell also resells, among other things, storage products from EMC; virtualization software from VMware…
