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Channel Chiefs Need to Watch More Football
Watching various vendors put their channel programs together has always been reminiscent of watching professional football coaches build their offenses. In the National Football League, coaches tend to prefer to either pass the ball or run the ball. Passing the ball a lot is generally referred to as a West Coast offensive scheme, because it…
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New Samsung Notebook Replaces Hard Drive with Flash
Is the hard drive history? Samsung Electronics said Tuesday that it will launch two mobile computers in early June that will do away with hard drives altogether, replacing them with 32 gigabytes of NAND flash memory. The notebooks will be the first to use flash memory as the main storage device. The Samsung Q1, described…
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Cloakware Targets Feds with a New Channel Community
Data protection maker Cloakware is targeting its server-based data protection and password solutions at state and federal agencies with a new channel program for Government VARs. Cloakware is recruiting VARs with government contacts that can add its CSPM (Cloakware Server Password Manager), which manages unattended application passwords and privileged account passwords, to their current server…
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Dell to Open Storefronts in Dallas, New York State
Dell is opening a pair of storefronts this summer and fall, in Dallas and West Nyack, N.Y., as part of a pilot program to extend outreach to consumer and small-business buyers, the company confirmed May 23. But the outlets will carry no inventory and no service components, leaving the direct model king, the PC and…
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Avnet Appoints ATS President Rick Hamada COO
Avnet on May 23 appointed Rick Hamada, president of Avnet Technology Solutions, the distributor’s premier unit, as chief operating officer, handing him tactical control and freeing CEO Roy Vallee to focus on strategy. Effective July 2, Hamada, a 23-year veteran of the Phoenix-based company, will assume day-to-day responsibility for the logistical operations of Avnet Technology…
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Study: MSPs Are Taking Legal Risks
Managed services providers operating under tight customer and partner contracts not only protect themselves legally but also raise the value of their companies. But according to a recent study by the MSP Alliance, some of the companies providing managed services to users don’t take legal protection seriously enough. In some cases, companies forgo legal counsel…
