Recent Articles
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AMD Goes Vertical
AMD is leveraging vertical solutions and partners to make its microprocessors more relevant and valuable to a broader range of enterprise customers. The Sunnyvale, Calif., chip maker is cultivating a vertical approach, identifying industry-specific solutions and commercial system channel partners with specific business process expertise as part of a strategy to demonstrate value to enterprise…
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Intel Takes New Tack to Cut Power Consumption
With energy efficiency creeping up enterprises’ evaluation criteria list, Intel knew it couldn’t afford to allow its future chips to use more power. The Santa Clara, Calif., company went back to the drawing board to create a new chip architecture—a replacement for the circuitry that underpins its entire x86 product line—that would both increase performance…
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Group Helps VARs, Integrators Grow
After 12 years of being the go-to computer guy in his family’s Southern California chemical business (not to mention, serving as its general manager), Jim Locke decided it was time to branch out on his own. In 2000, he started JW Locke & Associates, an IT consulting business catering to small and midsize companies in…
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Queens College Gets the Royal Treatment with CA Unicenter
Like many commuter schools, Queens College teemed with thousands of students who needed to securely and remotely access courseware housed on the New York college’s network. But the school’s labor-intensive method of loading software onto lab computers resulted in neither latency nor high availability, according to Naveed Husain, assistant vice president for IT and CIO…
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Q&A: VAR Alliance Founder Discusses Strength in Numbers
Jim Locke, principal of JW Locke & Associates, knows a thing or two about partnering. As founder of the Small and Medium Business Technology Network, aimed at small and midsize business VARs, Locke has spent the better part of the last year creating and promoting a forum where small VARs—such as his own company—can seek…
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Kaseya Preps New Managed Services Release
Competition between developers of managed services platforms continues to intensify as Kaseya International prepares to release a new version of its platform. And the competition is going global as managed services gains momentum in markets outside North America. Kaseya expects to have equal numbers of partners in and outside the United States in two years.…
