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  • MSP Programs to Boost Emerging Industry

    Channel Insider Staff

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    The MSPAlliance introduced a pair of initiatives at its fall conference on Sept. 24 and 25, aimed at establishing a basic level and guarantee of professionalism in managed services providers. The young industry has grown to a stage that necessitates that it begin standardizing and setting expectations, organization members and officials told eWEEK. It begins… Read more

  • Channel Programs Need to Be Designed for Solution Providers, Not Vendors

    Michael Vizard

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    In age where product margins are increasingly razor thin, solution providers live and die by the value added services they provide. In that context, the products they are selling are a means to an end. But in order to deliver higher value services, solution providers have to create and deliver combination of products that enable… Read more

  • Cisco Gears Up to Embrace Managed Services

    Michael Vizard

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    Next month Cisco plans to formally roll out a channel program for managed services after piloting the program for a year and half with a small select group of partners. Although the complete details of the program are still being worked out, the program is being built around three classes of managed service providers that,… Read more

  • Sun to Resell Diligent’s Data Deduplication Software

    Sean Gallagher

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    Sun Microsystems inked a deal this week with Diligent Technologies, a storage management software vendor specializing in data deduplication. The partnership gives Diligent, launched in 2002, a potentially much larger profile in both the high-end and midrange markets, and gives Sun and its resellers access to a technology that can significantly enhance customers’ data protection… Read more

  • The Planet to Host Microsoft Small Business Server

    The Planet to Host Microsoft Small Business Server

    Pedro Pereira

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    Hosting company The Planet has partnered with software behemoth Microsoft to widen the reach of Windows Small Business Server through a software-as-a-service arrangement. On Aug. 28, Houston-based The Planet will launch a partner program built around hosted SBS whose goal is to make it easier for VARs and integrators to sell the product to their… Read more

  • D&H Distributing to Carry ThinkPads

    Pedro Pereira

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    D&H Distributing has expanded its relationship with PC vendor Lenovo to include the ThinkPad Express line of notebooks. D&H, Harrisburg, Pa., has carried the Lenovo 3000 line of desktops and notebooks for a year, but the distributor added the ThinkPad line because its solution providers had been asking for it, said Michael Schwab, D&H vice… Read more