Recent Articles
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CIOs to Vendors: Get with the Program
Value scores: down. reliability scores: down. Customer loyalty: no surprise—these numbers are down, too. Increasingly, CIOs are disappointed and disgruntled with the performance of their most important vendors. In fact, the number of companies with lower scores in 2006 than in 2005 outpaces those with higher scores by a margin of two to one. How…
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Newbury Teams with Channel to Complete Asset Tracking Solution
Also in November, Newbury agreed to allow Trapeze Networks to license its server-side location technology and work with them to integrate Newbury’s location systems into Trapeze’s wireless networking solutions. Now, PanGo’s PanOS Location Management Platform and PanGo Locator application will be able to be powered by Newbury’s Location Appliance, enabling users to locate any 802.11-based…
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Websense Teams with Citrix on Web Security
Web security and filtering software vendor Websense is integrating its technology with Citrix System’s Presentation Server to give customers more granular access controls and Web site monitoring. The integration of Websense Enterprise and Websense Web Security Suite version 6.3 with Citrix Presentation Server is available to channel partners immediately. Websense has a strategy to move…
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Cisco’s Goldilocks Product Strategy for the Channel
One of the oldest and better-known sayings in this business is that where there’s mystery there’s profit, and nothing is better for the channel than when high demand and mystery come together at the same time to create high-margin opportunities in volume. That seems to be what’s happening in the network infrastructure space as a…
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D&H to Carry Panasonic Rugged Notebooks
D&H Distributing wants to get tough with its VARs. The Harrisburg, Pa., IT distributor announced on Dec. 4 that it would start carrying Panasonic’s line of Toughbook rugged and semirugged notebooks. Rugged or “ruggedized” notebooks are built with special metal cases that are designed to withstand shock and exposure to the elements. The internal components,…
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12 Who Made a Difference in 2006
While everybody likes to talk about what the channel should be doing now or what they might do someday for the channel, not everyone actually follows the rhetoric with action. So it’s important to recognize and appreciate the people in any given year who actually put what they preach into practice. With that in mind,…
