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  • NetEx Introduces IP WAN Data Migration

    Data transport vendor NetEx has come up with a different way—and more predictable, faster, and cheaper, company executives claim—to migrate large amounts of data over IP WAN connections. The service, called the DMO (Data Migration Optimizer) program, offers resellers and systems integrators, as well as large companies interested in attempting migration independently, a way to…

  • Avnet Sells HP Business to UK Firm

    IT distributor Avnet this week signed over its U.S. Hewlett-Packard Co. end-user business to HP’s largest reseller in a move that further solidifies Avnet’s commitment to the two-tiered distribution model. The deal gives Logicalis, a U.K. firm, ownership of Avnet’s $100 million HP reselling business for an undisclosed sum and secures Logicalis’ HP and IBM…

  • VAR Group Finds Partnering Makes Sense

    A fast-growing group of Southern California VARs banded together last year to increase their buying power and clout with vendors. By acting as a unit, the VARs concluded they would be more likely to get a vendor’s attention when necessary while qualifying for the volume discounts that elude the smallest VARs, those who focus on…

  • Visual Networks to Follow VARs to Market

    Visual Networks Inc. aims to cultivate VAR partners to market its broadening network and application performance management product set. The company on Monday launched its ProVisual Partner Program. The program will create a two-tier distribution channel for the company’s flagship Visual UpTime Select and other offerings. Visual Networks has distribution arrangements in place with Interlink…

  • OtterBox Protects Pocket PCs

    VARs and IT professionals, with years of technical knowledge, software and hardware at their fingertips, are rarely stymied by something as simple as dirt. But the staff at Farm Works Software, a division of CTN Data Service Inc., of Hamilton, Ind., found themselves in just that situation soon after they began deploying their data collection…

  • VARs Find Strength in Numbers

    A little more than a year ago, Jim Locke, president of J.W. Locke and Associates LLC, had trouble just getting past the call center at Sonic Wall, a vendor with which he sold small-business backup and security solutions. Locke had been a partner for several years and had a good relationship with the SMB (small…

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