Recent Articles
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IBM Says Small Deals Lead Technology Consulting Rebound
IT consultants are probably already feeling it: the start of a rebound in business. But there’s a difference this time. The rebound is coming mostly in smaller deals rather than in gigantic ones. That may be because businesses are dipping their feet in with jobs that just can’t wait before they dive into a recovery…
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Kaseya, Lenovo Team for PC Managed Services
Lenovo is teaming up with automation specialist Kaseya to educate and enable its community of managed service providers in remote desktop management. Through the alliance announced today, Kaseya and Lenovo will embark on an education effort to expose more MSPs and VARs to emerging opportunities in desktop managed services, with particular emphasis on leveraging Intel…
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Quarterly Resolutions That Matter
I detest New Year’s resolutions. I love goals. I also love lists, as the numerous pads of paper I carry around are clear evidence of. But I don’t care for the idea of setting resolutions just because of the change of the year. I prefer goal setting and planning, and I break that down by…
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Companies Leverage Services to Keep Data Center Lights On
There’s no better way to sell to a customer than to understand their pain points, which is why the most recent Symantec State of the Data Center 2010 survey should pique the interest of most channel executives. The comprehensive study released last week by Applied Research West on behalf of based Symantec shows what makes…
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Online IT Marketplace OnForce Gets Some Competition
Online IT services marketplace OnForce just got a new rival, and one that has a history of serving the staffing needs of IT solution providers. SmartSource, a Chicago-based IT recruiting company that caters to solution providers’ temporary and permanent staffing needs nationwide, has launched Tecdirect.com—an online marketplace for temporary IT staff. The self-service marketplace is…
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Connecting IT Customers with Social Networking
Connecting IT Customers with Social Networking Who’s Doing It?75 percent of respondents use social networks and 50 percent use microblogging for business purposes. The most common departments using consumer-based social networking for business purposes:• marketing and communications • human relations• customer service departments No Title SMBs Dive InSmall and medium-sized businesses are also taking advantage…
