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Solution Providers News: CRN Announces the Channel’s Mid-Year Bestsellers List
Solution providers recently got word from the CMP Channel and The NPD Group of which companies had made the Mid-Year CRN Channel Bestsellers List. The NPD Group is a research firm that worked with the CMP Channel and CRN to evaluate the performance of solution providers and their technologies and technology companies and come up [...]
Computer Business News: Pingdom Creates New Service
In computer business news, on November 8, Pingdom announced it had a brand new monitoring package available. Pingdom is known within the computer business for being a respected uptime monitoring service. The new monitoring service is designed for business users, as opposed to the last which was geared towards the home users market. The [...]
Solution Provider Forsythe Acquires IST
Solution provider Forsythe Solutions Group announced a few weeks ago it had acquired Information Security Technology (IST) in order to increase its international presence. IST will improve the solution provider’s visibility in Minneapolis/St. Paul and in Ohio in the security markets. IST also has offices in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Calgary, Alberta and Vancouver, British Columbia. [...]
Symantec Solution Providers Argue about Deal Registration
A few Symantec solution providers have recently been complaining about treatment received by the company compared to treatment received by major account resellers and plan to voice complaints with Symantec’s executives. According to solution providers, the worst part of the program is Symantec’s deal registration system that does not shield them from overly competitive pricing. [...]
Solution Providers Fear Dell’s Power
Recently Dell organized a survey of solution providers that revealed that approximately 60 percent of them fear Dell will compete for resellers’ customers. This perception of solution providers reveals a real hurdle that company has to surmount as it enters a new phase and tries to grow indirect sales. Results of the survey were posted [...]
Computer Business IBM Turns to Federated Integration Testing (FIT)
Computer business IBM has been working on a new concept – Federated Integration Testing (FIT) – since the beginning of 2007 using teams of people in its research and development centers worldwide. Mick Lickman, leader of FIT at its Hursley Center states that the concept is different from previous types of integration testing done by [...]
Computer Business Apple Increases Sales with Macintosh Computers
Currently computer business Apple has been going through some uncertain times with sales. However, the company’s Macintosh computers have made record sales. While the computer business’ iPod sales have slumped and while it waits for clear results of its recent iPhone release, the sale of Mac computers have remained steady and strong. Apple announced the [...]
Notebook PCs: How Do You Make Warranties Even Better?
When you make recommendations on extended service plans for your clients’ new notebook PCs, you need a written statement of what these plans cover … and what they don’t cover. Those dealing in notebook PCs do not always clearly explain what is and what is not part of warranties. Often you will have to just [...]
Solution Provider Ariba Named to 2007 Supply and Demand Chain Executive 100
Solution provider Ariba announced last week it had been named to the Supply and Demand Chain Executive 100 list. This list was created for solution providers to recognize those that are changing the face of the supply and demand chain. Solution provider Ariba has been recognized in this category since 2003. Ariba, Inc. provides spend [...]
Computer Consulting Business: What Are Your Vendor Support Options?
If you have a computer consulting business, you can’t spend time running up a huge bill, sitting at a client site as you wait on hold for two hours with tech support for your clients’ IT assets. You will be dealing with angry users and possibly compromise your relationship with your clients. Both You and [...]
What Are the Pros for Computer Consultants of Being Self Employed?
Computer consultants that work for small businesses enjoy many benefits. The following are some reasons to become self employed.Choose Your Own Work! Self-employed computer consultants have a flexible work situation with a great deal of variety. Computer consultants in business for themselves choose their favorite technologies and platforms and decide which products they will sell, [...]
Computer Business Microsoft Loses Windows Points with Developers
Computer business Microsoft is losing popularity points with its Windows platform as more developers decide it is not right for them. In North America, it is still the top platform used, but a new survey suggests that these same developers are starting to choose alternatives. The number of developers that used Windows for applications decreased [...]
Leading Solution Provider Arthur Rhein Named VARBusiness Executive of the Year
On Wednesday, June 13, Agilysys, Inc., a leading solution provider stated its chairman, Arthur Rhein got the VARBusiness 500 Executive of the Year Award. This award is to commemorate his outstanding oversight as the company went from a small IT solutions firm to one of North America’s top solution providers. Rhein stated he was [...]
Best North American IT Solution Providers Honored at VARBusiness 500 Awards
The best North American IT solution providers will be honored at the annual VARBusiness 500 Awards, held in New York City on June 11-12. According to Lawrence M. Walsh, VARBusiness Editor, the awards ceremony will feature many powerful speakers and events. He also believes that the solution providers channel is growing in strength and thus [...]
News for Solution Providers: PFU Systems Creates New Server Class COM Express Solution
The latest news for solution providers working with server installation is PFU Systems’ latest line of COM Express modules. These devices have server level performance and features in an embedded form that uses cutting-edge Intel technology. The features of these new tools for solution providers offer more reliable data protection among other features. PFU [...]
Solution Provider SolarWinds Gets Prestigious “Best of IT ChannelVision” Award
Solution provider ChannelWinds, leading provider of Windows-based network management, network monitoring and network discovery software, based in Austin, Texas announced it recently won the “Best of IT ChannelVision” award at a ceremony in Hollywood, Florida held between May 6th and 9th. The solution provider was chosen as the winner for Best XSP Product/Solution related to [...]
News for IT Consultants: Microsoft Vista Set to Have Huge Industry Impact
IT consultants know that 90 percent of the personal computer market uses the Microsoft platform. Thus, many are saying that the recent introduction of the new Widows Vista system will impact the industry greatly. IT consultants are split on whether or not the impact will be good or bad, but its effects will not go [...]
CRYPTOCard and Simple Technology Offer Computer Resellers Hacking Workshops
A Canadian duo of companies are set to provide a new workshop, “Hacking Demonstration” to computer resellers and other organizations in Ottawa. CRYPTOCard, a leading authentication technology developer is partnering with Simple Technology, Inc., a value added distributor of security products. This workshop for computer resellers will be presented at the Novotel Ottawa Hotel [...]
Consulting Firms: What’s the Benefit of Being a Product Reseller?
There are two ways for consulting firms to think about being product resellers. What is a Pure Computer Consulting Firm? Some consulting firms are pure consulting firms. Typically these firms think they will never make money off product margins and therefore should not be product resellers. These types of consulting firms do not resell hardware, [...]
According to VARs, HP Products Are Priced Lower by CDW
Many VARs attached to Hewlett-Packard products have recently stated that CDW has started using vendor rebates and market development funds in order to sell products below cost. CDW is well-known for being very competitive about HP pricing, but VARs are stating that at the end of the first quarter, CDW was pricing items such as [...]