Recent Articles
-
Lenovo CEO Maps Long-Term Plan
Lenovo CEO Bill Amelio plans to greatly expand the vendor’s footprint in the market, but not before significantly improving the company’s ability to execute orders. On the heels of Lenovo’s recent financial results, Amelio said the company needs to hold its suppliers more accountable to their service level agreements, better synchronize manufacturing times with flights…
-
Online Office Apps Fall Short for Enterprise
When Microsoft releases Office 2007 later in 2006, the major overhaul of the venerable office productivity suite is likely to spur an examination of lower-priced alternatives. Competitors such as Sun Microsystems’ StarOffice, OpenOffice.org’s OpenOffice and Corel’s WordPerfect are most often brought up as competitors, but a new crop of Web-based productivity tools is beginning to…
-
The Time to Think About the Future Is Now
When Daniel Burrus thinks about the future, he does not contemplate current problems and conventional solutions. Instead, Burrus looks for problems that have not arrived and tries to solve those dilemmas with technology and innovations that may only be in their infancy. Thinking about unconventional problems and solutions, Burrus said at the CompTIA Breakaway Conference…
-
Gateway Gives VARs Tickets to the Symphony
Gateway will begin offering its VARs access to the same training portal that its in-house sales staff currently uses as a better way for its partners to sell hardware to users and push more product through the channel. The portal, called Symphony, can be accessed through Gateway’s Web site and will become available to VARs…
-
N-able Introduces Managed Services for Holdouts
Not ready to make a full transition to managed services? N-able Technologies has just the thing for you—time-based managed services. What is that? According to the brass at the Ottawa-based managed services platform vendor, the time-based approach, which N-able is calling the “Momentum System,” allows VARs and integrators to test the waters before making a…
-
Jamcracker Gives VARs More On-Demand Choices
Jamcracker, an on-demand service provider, is touting the latest release of its Jamcracker Service Delivery Network as a platform for VARs and ISVs to build on-demand applications out of nearly anything. JSDN 2.0, which the Santa Clara, Calif., company said is available as of July 31, will allow resellers to choose from 200 different on-demand…
