Recent Articles
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Symantec Partners: Parrish Leaves Big Shoes to Fill
Solution providers are shocked that Julie Parrish is leaving Symantec, and say she’s leaving big shoes to fill in the global channel chief office. In an internal memo obtained by Channel Insider, Symantec Chief Operating Officer Enrique Salem announced Parrish would leave Symantec at the end of October. Symantec confirmed that Parrish was leaving to…
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DandH Increases Credit for Resellers
VARs are wary of the uncertainty and chaos in financial markets and its potential to filter down to their businesses as well, but they haven’t seen that happen. Yet. That’s the message they sent to their distributor at D&H Distributing’s conference in Pennsylvania this week, according to Dan Schwab, co-president of the Harrisburg, Pa.-based SMB…
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Nimsoft Investment Validates Managed Services Model
In the midst of the ongoing global financial troubles, you might not expect to see a software vendor, or any company for that matter, get a multimillion-dollar capital infusion from investment bankers. But that is precisely what Nimsoft did this week. The systems management software company completed a $12 million round of funding led by…
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D-Link Refreshes Xtreme N Line with DIR-825 Wireless Router
Doing more with less has been the goal of business operations for some time now. Nowhere has this become more evident than with the IT components and budgets of small businesses. In fact, "more with less" has become the axiom not only of those small businesses, but also of the solution providers servicing those businesses.…
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HP Welcomes Proposals That Target Non-HP Customers
In the ever-tightening economy, Hewlett-Packard sees the path to continued fiscal health and growth running through new customers that have never bought the company’s products. To reach those large swaths of non-HP customers, the vendor is welcoming partnership proposals from solution providers that promise to capture more of that business. Speaking at the Synnex national…
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Beyond the Headlines of Disaster Preparedness
Hurricanes such as this year’s Ike and 2005’s Katrina are natural disasters that unfurl in slow-motion. Ike entered the inner Caribbean on Sept. 1 but didn’t make landfall in Galveston, Texas, for nearly two weeks. This gave tens of thousands of coastal residents time to evacuate to safer areas. But two weeks of preparation wasn’t enough to…
