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  • CES: Future Tech Shopping

    CES is unlike any of the other trade shows I attend during the year. Unlike the many channel and tech conferences I attend each year, this event is much more like “time warp shopping”; it’s a giant mall of things you might buy in the future. Vendors are here looking for distributors for their products,…

  • P2P: Everybody’s Doing It, Right?

    Vendors routinely promote and reward the practice and the subject always sparks discussion at industry partner events. I’m talking about partner-to-partner collaboration or P2P. Haven’t you heard? Everyone’s doing it. But are they? A recent study by Channel Insider and Amazon Consulting reveals that while P2P is indeed a trend in the channel, it’s far…

  • Qualys Updates PCI Compliance Tool

    This week Qualys introduced an update to its PCI compliance product that it says will help channel partners put tools in the hands of customers that lay the groundwork for future compliance projects via improved self-assessment questionnaire processing and augmented progress tracking. The new QualysGuard PCI 4.3 bolsters the solution’s power to offer approved scanning…

  • Retail Distributor ScanSource to Report Higher Quarter Revenue

    Point-of-sale and retail vertical industry IT distributor ScanSource reported that it will post higher year-over-year revenues for the quarter ended Dec. 31. The Greenville, S.C., distributor said that revenues will be in the range of $537 million to $547 million and will include the revenues of the acquisition of Algol Europe, which was completed Dec.…

  • IT Services Hiring a Bright Spot in Jobs Report

    IT services firms are hiring. That’s the latest from the U.S. Department of Labor jobs report released today, which provided some encouraging news for folks in the channel. For the fourth straight month, the DOL recorded gains in IT services jobs. IT employment in general has also experienced growth over the last three consecutive months.…

  • Laplink Offers VARs PCmover Discounts to Help with Microsoft Windows 7 Migration

    Lots of technology companies are expecting a big migration this year from Microsoft’s Windows XP to its new operating system introduced in October 2009, Windows 7. That’s because the market is considered to be bloated with pent-up demand from so many people skipping Windows Vista, the highly criticized operating system in between. Indeed it was…

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