Recent Articles
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Top 5 Mobile Enterprise Influencers
Mobile maturity in the enterprise has finally arrived, and plenty of IT solution providers have recognized that offering a mobile services practice – integrating mobile devices to the IT infrastructure — can bring in an additional stream of services revenue. Channel Insider takes a look at some of the vendors who are shaping the mobile…
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CTERA Rolls Out Channel-Friendly Cloud Storage Portal
Hybrid cloud-based storage and data protection vendor CTERA Networks is reaching out to service providers, including MSPs and resellers, with a cloud platform that is a turnkey solution for delivering cloud-based storage and data protection services, from creating service plans to remote maintenance of appliances, including the CloudPlug and C200. Available immediately in SaaS and…
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HP Integrates 3Com Technology, Channel Program, in War Against Cisco
HP offered further details on its product and reseller channel partner program integration with 3Com at a news conference April 19 that came days after the company completed its acquisition of the networking and security company. Quick Facts: The HP, 3Com Deal Executives said they see an enormous opportunity from the partner ecosystem of the…
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HP Targets Small Business with Printers, Mobile Scanner
With the paperless office on indefinite hold, HP is rolling out a plethora of printers for the channel, including a number of industry firsts and its inaugural mobile scanner. Small business and medium businesses will shell out $81 billion on printing by 2013, says HP’s Susy Brooks, LaserJet product marketing manager, and the printer company…
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Small Business to Get Free Help with Broadband
SCORE, an organization that bills itself the “Counselor to America’s Small Business,” announced that The SCORE Foundation rallied corporate partners for a combined donation of $1.1 million to jump-start a nationwide public/private consortium to help small businesses compete in the Internet age by using broadband technologies. The consortium will offer training, tools and resources, all…
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Do Microsoft’s Server Moves Indicate a Shift to the Cloud?
Microsoft’s recent decision to end support for Intel’s Itanium chip in its server architecture, along with the elimination of its Essential Business Server (EBS) development, suggests that the company is trying to reposition to take advantage of several developing business IT trends, including virtualization and cloud computing. That paradigm shift is also mirrored on the…