December 17, 2008 7:43 AM
Posted by: badarrow
Authors,
Barbara Darrow,
IBM,
NewsCognos, now part of IBM, has seen more than its share of bad press lately, what with the scrutiny of two large Massachusetts contracts that are under investigation. A series of Boston Globe articles have detailed
December 16, 2008 10:12 PM
Posted by: badarrow
Authors,
Barbara Darrow,
IT channel products and technologiesThere will be no more Steve Jobs keynotes at Macworld Expo. Ever.
In fact, Apple is out of the Macworld Expo keynote business, it said. Phil Schiller's keynote will be the last Apple...
December 15, 2008 9:06 PM
Posted by: Heather Clancy
Authors,
Heather Clancy,
Systems and systems management,
VirtualizationA vendor agreement announced last week by distributor Tech Data is definitely a sign of things to come in the virtualization space. That is, a move to manage and secure all the virtual environments that have sprung up all over your clients' data centers.
December 15, 2008 4:04 PM
Posted by: Bcournoyer
Channel partner programs,
Colin Steele,
Network and application security,
NewsLisa Loe, McAfee's vice president of North American channels, has left the security vendor after just three months.
McAfee just confirmed this afternoon that Loe is no longer with the company. McAfee hired Loe in September; she...
December 11, 2008 10:58 PM
Posted by: StorageSwiss
Channel,
George Crump,
Reseller channel business development,
Supplier relationship management,
Vendor partner business issuesThere's no worse feeling: You find out that an opportunity you were working on with a manufacturer was just taken direct. You found the opportunity and yet somehow control was lost and the customer placed the order directly with your supplier. How did this happen -- and maybe more importantly --...
December 9, 2008 10:42 AM
Posted by: Heather Clancy
Authors,
Heather Clancy,
Information technology services,
Reseller channel business developmentOK, so you've made the swap-over to emphasize services. Problem is, lot of other resellers are telling the same story. So, how can you differentiate, especially in a nasty economic climate?
December 9, 2008 10:10 AM
Posted by: rivkalittle
Channel partner programs,
Cisco,
Rivka LittleIt’s a funny thing Cisco CEO John Chambers was such a strong John McCain supporter since it’s actually president elect Barack Obama’s administration that is likely to boost the company’s shares and stabilize...
December 8, 2008 2:57 PM
Posted by: rivkalittle
Channel partner programs,
Cisco,
Rivka Little,
VAR training, certification,
Vendor partner business issuesCisco Systems hasn’t yet filed for an appeal in the Infra-Comm case and it only has about six weeks left to do so. Continued »
December 5, 2008 3:05 PM
Posted by: rivkalittle
Channel partner programs,
Cisco,
Networking technology,
News,
Rivka LittleSeems Juniper Networks is not the only buzzard swooping over the potential ruins of Nortel to snatch its channel partners.
John Wrona, executive vice president of sales and marketing at Nortel partner Ronco Communications, said he’s been hit up...
