Recent Articles
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A Tale of Two Distributors’ Earnings Reports
When distributor Tech Data reported its quarterly earnings this week, the picture was pretty bright considering the economic climate and conditions we’ve all been weathering in the past year. While Tech Data’s revenues fell 16 percent year over year (not surprising since things hadn’t really fallen off at this time a year ago), they were…
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Storage Technology Vendor Isilon Guns for NetApp
It’s only been a year since Leonard Iventosch’s surprise departure from NetApp as head of channels there, but the channel veteran as been busy ever since building out the reseller and solution provider channel program of storage upstart and NetApp rival Isilon. He’s increased the channel mix for the company, built a partner discount model…
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What Does ‘New’ Mean? One Netbook’s Tale
At the risk of being profane, I’ve got a story to tell. My 11-year-old daughter has been begging to get a netbook – even saving her own money, gasp – to accompany her as she enters sixth grade in just another week. It’s been a summer-long quest. In a fit of spontaneous generosity last week,…
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LED Display Technology Gets a Twist
(Reuters) – U.S. researchers said on Thursday they have found a way to make large-scale flexible display screens that can be stretched to fit the contours of a bus yet are transparent enough so riders can see out windows. The thin, light screens might be used to make brake light indicators that follow the contours…
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New Data Leak Detection Player Unveils Channel Program
An emerging new information risk management company yesterday introduced a channel partner program that it hopes will help MSSPs, security systems integrators, and other services-oriented security channel players augment and solidify their content-oriented protection solutions. Freshly introduced to the market in late June, Houston-based Exobox bills itself as what it calls a data leak detection…
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Economic Recovery Driven by Tech Sector, Survey Says
A survey of 130 CEO and other C-level hardware and software company executives conducted by audit, tax and advisory firm KPMG found the respondents believe that the technology sector will recover from the current economic crisis substantially more quickly than the U.S. economy, with senior business leaders expecting improved revenue and profitability in 2010 and…