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Ingram Micro Plays Managed Services Host
Distributor Ingram Micro has taken another step in its managed services strategy by making a hosted remote monitoring and management platform available to solution providers. The hosted managed services option allows VARs, integrators and services providers to remotely monitor and manage the computing environments of their clients without having to invest in the overhead of…
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Report: POS Market to Approach $6 Billion This Year
A report from the IHL Consulting Group found that there has been an 8 percent increase in the size of the point-of-sale market, which isn’t bad for a market that traditionally increased by about 4 percent. Still, it’s a healthy drop from the double-digit growth of recent years. The North American POS market report released…
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Intel Taps Insider as North American Channel Chief
Intel has appointed a 28-year company veteran with both sales and engineering experience as its new North American channel chief. Nick Davison, 52 this year, replaces Steve Dallman in the role. Dallman was promoted head the chip giant’s global channel organization in December. Intel, based in Santa Clara, Calif., plans to formally introduce Davison as…
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Intel’s Roadmap May Be Apple’s Road
Apple has legendarily been mum on its future product plans, but its relatively recent switch to Intel processors in its Macintosh line of computers has tied these products, as least in processor capabilities, to Intel’s public product plans. Though Apple will no doubt have surprises to reveal, looking at Intel’s plans can at least give…
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Microsoft Releases Visual Studio 2005 Update for Vista
Microsoft has released a new version of its Visual Studio toolset for Windows Vista development. On March 6, the Redmond, Wash., software giant released the Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 SP1 (Service Pack 1) Update for Windows Vista, so that developers building applications on Microsoft’s new operating system platform can enjoy an improved user experience that…
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Who Is Adrian Jones? No Matter, VARs Say
Hewlett-Packard announced its new channel chief, Adrian Jones, on March 2, and since then there seems to be but one response from the channel: “Who is Adrian Jones?” Jones, 40, comes from a much smaller company with a much different channel—storage vendor McDATA. But no matter, partners reached for comment seem to have a significant…
