Recent Articles
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Channel: What’s the Future?
Crystal balls aside, a serious business question was posed at the kick off panel debate at Gartner Channel Vision 2007 in Palm Springs yesterday: What will the channel look like in 2010? The panel of experts including executives from Oracle, Microsoft, Ingram and a range of solution providers lead by Gartner research director Tiffani Bova,…
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SAAS Channel Data Provider Wins Investment
SAAS-based channel data services provider InfoNow has raised $6 million in venture funding, the company announced. InfoNow, which collects, processes and enriches channel sales and inventory data for companies that sell through channel partner networks, said it would use the proceeds to further invest in product development, marketing and sales activities. InfoNow restructured its organization…
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Citrix Rounds Out Virtualization
Citrix Systems at its iForum conference on Oct. 22 will demonstrate to customers just how broad its definition of application delivery really is when it launches new virtualization technology along with new communications, security and power management features embedded in its flagship Presentation Server line. With the close of its XenSource acquisition, Citrix will launch…
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M&A for SMB VARs
While the CDW deal to go private was only just completed in October, the fervor over buying and selling channel companies is far from over. Witness the soft-launch this week of the M&A Forum, a new Web site and Internet service designed to bring together buyers and sellers of solution provider businesses. “Think of Match.com…
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Exorcize PC Demons for Free on Halloween
Two vendors want to know: “Is your computer possessed? Does it seem like your hard drive’s haunted?” If so, they’re offering a day of free technical support to cleanse PCs from evil and help users rid themselves of zombies, botnets, viruses and other malware on Halloween. CyberDefender, an Internet security company that uses a client-to-client…
