Recent Articles
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VARs Choose VMware for Server Virtualization
It’s been said "no one gets fired for buying IBM." These days you may want to add VMware to that vaunted list. Solution providers have lined up in droves behind the market leader in virtualization – widely acknowledged to command about a 90-percent share. Rivals like Citrix’s Xen technology and Virtual Iron have not come…
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Channel Labs Walkthrough: Fujitsu Lifebook U810
Don’t let the U810’s diminutive size fool you, it’s a full fledged PC
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Learning To Love UAC
User Access Control in Windows Vista has been such a controversial development that it’s worth re-examining periodically. Let’s restate the purpose of UAC: It is to allow the user to run the system as a standard user, not administrator, and still have relatively easy access to privileged operations when they are necessary. UAC (click here…
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Intel Placing Big WiMax Bets
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Intel is investing heavily in WiMax in hopes of getting the networked world to switch to the super high-speed wireless technology within a few years, a senior executive said on Tuesday. "Intel is leading the charge," Arvind Sodhani, president of Intel Capital, the chip maker’s investment arm, said in an interview. "We’re…
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Symantec Brings SAAS to Storage with Hosted Backup
When most people hear the acronym SAAS they automatically think of software as a service, but Symantec wants people to think storage as a service instead, at least in the case of Symantec Protection Network. SPN is Symantec’s first venture into the hosted backup and hosted storage market, and the company is hoping that the…
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A Deeper Look at Services Pricing
It’s no secret that services are the gold that drives profitability in the channel. According to the Channel Insider 2008 Channel Outlook survey, more than half of solution providers’ revenue and profit comes from some form of service offering. What may come as a surprise is the value of VOIP and telephony services. The Channel…
