Recent Articles
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Dell: PowerEdge Offers Low Cost, High Performance
Dell on March 19 announced two new PowerEdge servers for the SMB market, but it declined to say what percentage would be sold through the channel and what percentage would be handled by Dell’s direct sales force. "The new PowerEdge Servers are focused on SMBs and there’s also an enterprise play targeting branch offices," said Sally Stevens, director…
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Vista Projections Leave a Lot to Be Desired for the Channel
After marketing Windows Vista for more than a year, Microsoft has made little headway in driving adoption of the operating system among corporate customers, according to new research. Worse yet, Microsoft will fare only marginally better with Windows Vista in 2008, according to the survey of 232 IT managers conducted by Ziff Davis Enterprise, the…
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Fujitsu Aims the LifeBook E Series at the Desktop
When it comes to notebook sales, Fujitsu ranks somewhere behind giants Hewlett-Packard, Lenovo, Dell, Toshiba and even Acer. But sales volume is a poor indicator of product value, and that is where Fujitsu aims to trump the competition. The Fujitsu LifeBook E8410, the latest in the E series, surely won’t win any awards for portability,…
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Microsoft Poaches Oracle`s Channel Chief
Microsoft poached Oracle’s top channel executive, not to head its own channel organization, but to lead its Dynamics ERP/CRM channel. Doug Kennedy, Oracle’s former worldwide channel chief and a 16-year veteran of the company, will now head the Microsoft Dynamics Partners business, as of March 24, Microsoft confirmed. Late last week Oracle confirmed that it had appointed…
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Something Wicked This Way Comes from Cisco
In the course of the history of enterprise computing there have been a lot of times when new technology came along that helped propel the business of solution providers, and then there were some that actually hampered their business. Unfortunately for solution providers, what looks like a major technology advance on the part of Cisco…
