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Mac Virtualization Apps Are a Boon for Channel
It’s been not quite nice to know you, PC. Is there any reason left to use a PC? With the new ability to run Windows off a Mac, you might as well clear a place in the attic for your PC. Questions over the Mac’s place in the business office have persisted for years. About…
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IDC Study Shows Growth Slowing in Channel
A survey of resellers released by IDC shows that channel partners felt a broad slowing of growth or an actual decrease in sales coming on in the second quarter of 2007 across nearly all industry segments except storage, where most partners saw sales staying about the same. However, Network Appliance, Hitachi and Sun Microsystems storage…
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Avnet Latest Aruba Distributor
Aruba Networks inked its third distribution deal of the year today, announcing an agreement with Avnet Technology Solutions to distribute the vendor’s complete line of mobility and wireless LAN products to North American solution providers. Aruba gear–including its Aruba Mobility Controllers, wireless LAN access points, Remote Access Point and Secure Enterprise Mesh software, ArubaOS Mobility…
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Vendors Need to Step Up to IT Needs of the Next Generation Channel
As the channel wrestles with new business models and an increased need to collaborate on major projects that increasingly are going to be global in nature, one has to wonder if the industry as a whole has the information technology infrastructure in place to really support the direction the channel as whole seems to be…
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Tech Data Embraces Virtualization
It’s not quite a virtual world after all, but if companies such as Tech Data and P&M Computers have their way, it may soon be. Distributor Tech Data, based in Clearwater, Fla., is busily building a virtualization practice while P&M, of Cliffside Park, N.J., is out in the market evangelizing the pros of going virtual.…
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Collaboration, Reporting Highlight Level Platforms Release
Level Platforms is readying changes to its flagship managed services platform—including bolstering reporting tools and adding support for Microsoft Vista—that will enhance usability, security and performance, especially for MSPs looking to join forces on customer engagements, according to officials. The Ottawa-based vendor will announce on August 7 version 6.0 of its Managed Workplace MSP (managed…
