Recent Articles
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VARStreet Lends VARs a Marketing Hand
VARs spend most of their time running their businesses and making sales, so marketing typically is not a priority for them. But failing to do basic marketing, even something as simple as configuring a Web site to drive online sales, means passing up business opportunities. With that in mind, VARStreet Inc., of Santa Clara, Calif.,…
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Digest: News from MaintenanceNet, Tech Data, Avnet
MaintenanceNet says its data solutions are designed to bring order and usable data to VARs entering the managed services field; Tech Data is marrying its POS line with a data storage solution from an ISV to create a more functional solution; and Avnet is jumping into an open standards education program to cultivate the next…
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IDC: BPO to Grow 10 Percent Annually
The worldwide business process outsourcing market will expand at a 10.9 compound annual growth rate through 2009, International Data Corp. said this week. IDC called the market “vibrant and brimming with opportunity.” The market, according to IDC, will reach $641.2 billion in 2006 compared with $382.5 billion in 2004. IDC identified procurement and training as…
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AMD Casts a Wide Net with a First Commercial Channel
AMD Inc., the world’s No. 2 line of microprocessors, is now available over the counter, so to speak. AMD on Monday took the wraps off the AMD Commercial Channel Access Program, the first of its kind for the Sunnyvale, Calif., company, making its line of microprocessors, flash memory and low-power processor solutions available to VARs,…
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AMD’s Challenge: Fixing an Image Problem
AMD has an image problem and the company knows it. It is a distant second to processor market-share leader Intel Corp., and as such, it is often perceived as the one with the less-desirable product. Pretty much all end users historically have gotten from AMD by way of marketing is the sense from print and…
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E-Mail Security Market Is on Fast Growth Track
Ferris Research last week painted an attractive picture of the e-mail security sector. The San Francisco-based research house, which focuses on messaging and collaboration, reported that the market for e-mail security products and services will grow from $3.7 billion this year to $5.5 billion by 2010. The near-term annual revenue growth rate will hover near…
