Recent Articles
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ViewSonic Intros New Displays
ViewSonic has added to its VA series of LCD monitors, the company announced the week of June 25 at the National Education Computing Conference in Atlanta. The new displays include the 19-inch VA916, a traditional 4:3 display, and the 17-inch VA1716w and 19-inch VA1916w, both widescreen displays that offer panoramic viewing for multiple documents and…
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Nimsoft Enhances VMWare Support
Nimsoft has taken advantage of new application programming interfaces from VMWare, enhancing its monitoring support for the virtualization vendor’s software. The new APIs from VMWare, available in the most recent release of the software, allow administrators to extract more information than previously about the health of the software and applications, said Ken Vanderweel, marketing director…
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Cisco Sets IronPort Apart in the Channel
When it comes to vendor mergers and acquisitions, the usual rule of thumb in the channel is that the smaller vendor will be assimilated and any and all resistance to that is futile. What makes the acquisition of IronPort by Cisco so extraordinary is Cisco’s commitment to continuing to manage the IronPort channel as a…
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Channel Babble Needs a Cure
Six months ago, I wrote what was surely one of my crankiest columns, which I thought would elicit enough “Get a life” responses to make me seriously question how I use my time. To my surprise, the reaction was overwhelmingly positive. It turns out I wasn’t the only one who had noticed the industry has…
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M&As Signal Market Growth
You know a market segment is enjoying growth when it starts to fuel mergers and acquisitions. M&As, in fact, are a sure-fire indication of mainstream interest in the segment, said analyst Jeff Kaplan, founder and director of Thinkstrategies. And when it comes to managed services, much of the mainstream attention is coming from telephone companies.…
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Ingram Micro Adds to MSP Platform
Ingram Micro increased the magnitude of its Seismic managed services platform Monday, announcing two new major components – print services and online backup and restore. Seismic Online Backup and Restore, powered by VaultLogix, gives Seismic partners the option of offering data storage and retrieval for PCs, laptops, file servers, and application programs and databases. Seismic…
