April 30, 2010 1:04 AM
Posted by: Heather Clancy
CompTIA,
Heather Clancy,
IT buyer market research,
IT channel products and services,
Microsoft,
SMBTwo separate surveys offer insight into second half buying priorities among small and midsize businesses across the United States.
April 15, 2010 5:54 PM
Posted by: Heather Clancy
CompTIA,
Heather Clancy,
IT channel products and services,
LinuxIn the category of "you've coming a long way baby," CompTIA and the Linux Professional Institute (LPI) are getting together to create a
April 2, 2010 10:22 PM
Posted by: Heather Clancy
CompTIA,
Heather Clancy,
IT channel products and servicesCompTIA has taken a cue from charities and non-profits and from the managed services industry by coming up with a subscription-based pricing model for VARs, so that they can pay by the month instead coughing up the $250 annual fee all at...
March 23, 2010 6:43 PM
Posted by: Heather Clancy
Heather Clancy,
IT channel products and servicesOne of the big perpetual gripes of channel types is the amount of investment it often takes to get their technical services teams up to snuff on certain new technologies, especially when things are as tight as they have been for the past two years.
March 19, 2010 9:32 PM
Posted by: Heather Clancy
Autotask,
ConnectWise,
Heather Clancy,
IT channel products and servicesIs it me or is there a heck of a lot of activity going around in the professional services automation (PSA) world right now? I've always been intrigued by these applications, because of the discipline and process that they can bring to a solution providers day-to-day operations.
Right now, I'm...
March 17, 2010 3:29 PM
Posted by: Heather Clancy
Heather Clancy,
IT channel products and services,
mobility,
Motorola,
Motorola PartnerEmpowerEmpowerment is one of those words that gets thrown around a lot these days, but I really love that Motorola has decided to call upon this theme as the name of its expansive new program for folks rallying around their enterprise mobility and communications technologies. It's called, simply,
March 12, 2010 3:30 AM
Posted by: Heather Clancy
Heather Clancy,
IT channel products and services,
Symantec channelMost technology vendors talk the talk about why partner-to-partner collaboration is so important for their channel. Symantec continues to encourage it through its referral program, which has now been in place for about a year.
February 21, 2010 10:07 PM
Posted by: Heather Clancy
CharTec,
ConnectWise,
Heather Clancy,
IT Channel,
IT channel technology and services,
LabTechA second managed services infrastructure company, LabTech Software, has snagged an investment as part of ConnectWise Capital, which is managing a $20 million fund focused on incubating "innovative solutions" for the IT channel.
LabTech develops what is...
February 9, 2010 10:17 PM
Posted by: Heather Clancy
Champion Solutions Group,
Frank Casillo,
Heather Clancy,
IBM,
IBM channel,
IT channel products and services,
Managed Maintenance Inc.,
MSIHow much money are you leaving on the table by letting the support and maintenance contracts associated with the products you sell expire?
That's the challenge being addressed by Managed Maintenance Inc. (aka MMI), a Boca Raton, Fla.-based company that...
