December 21, 2009 4:16 PM
Posted by: badarrow
Barbara Darrow,
CFO,
Chris Liddell,
General Motors,
IT channel products and services,
MicrosoftChris Liddell must like a challenge. The outgoing CFO of Microsoft is now the ingoing CFO for General Motors.
Liddell had spent four years at Microsoft, following a stint at...
December 16, 2009 6:39 PM
Posted by: badarrow
Barbara Darrow,
Canonical,
IT channel products and services,
Jane Silber,
Linux,
Mark ShuttleworthCanonical's got a conference call slated tomorrow with CEO and founder Mark Shuttleworth on tap, as well as COO Jane Silber.
No one's saying nothing, other than to be available at 11 a.m., but here's guessing that Shuttleworth will relinquish...
December 15, 2009 7:01 PM
Posted by: Heather Clancy
Heather Clancy,
IT channel products and servicesMembers in good standing of the HTG Peer Groups, a community of self-governing groups with the professed goal of helping solution providers improve their business acumen and operating models, are being offered a chance to join
December 9, 2009 4:57 AM
Posted by: badarrow
Android phones,
Barbara Darrow,
BPOS,
Business Productivity Online Suite,
deskop virtualization,
Google,
iPhones,
IT channel products and technologies,
Microsoft,
VDI,
VMwareDesktop virtualization will be big. Cloud computing and new client hardware? Also hot topics, but there's less agreement about whether they'll drive channel opportunities and profits. Yes, the SearchITChannel.com channel advisory board has weighed in on the hot technologies they see driving...
December 7, 2009 5:51 PM
Posted by: Heather Clancy
Heather Clancy,
IT products and services,
Janet Schijns,
Motorola,
Motorola partnerSpoke with Janet Schijns, vice president of global channel programs for the Motorola enterprise mobility solutions group, about several topics looking forward into the New Year.
Two of her themes, in particular, struck me as particularly relevant on the cusp of 2010. They are actually pretty...
December 7, 2009 4:44 PM
Posted by: badarrow
Barbara Darrow,
collaboration software,
Domino,
groupware,
IBM,
IT channel products and services,
Lotus Notes,
Notes,
Ray OzzieJust talked to an industry buddy who wanted to know if I was in Somerville, Mass., 20 years ago today.
Um, interesting question. What happened Dec. 7, 1989 a.k.a Pearl Harbor Day at the Academy of Arts & Sciences in Somerville? Nothing rang a bell. Turns out that was the day
December 2, 2009 10:23 PM
Posted by: badarrow
Barbara Darrow,
Cisco,
enterprise,
HP,
IT channel products and services,
midmarket,
UCS,
Unified Computing SystemCIsco may have pitched its Unified Computing System (UCS) to the biggest of enterprises but smaller companies--typically mid-market players just dipping their toes into server virtualization...
December 2, 2009 6:40 PM
Posted by: Heather Clancy
Heather Clancy,
Ingram Micro Seismic,
IT channel products and services,
IT infrastructure,
Nimsoft,
Unified Monitoring,
VirtualizationPretty much everyone I know in the channel agrees that cloud services will play SOME role for at least part of their customers' computing needs. The good news for IT solution providers is that there is still plenty of work for them to do in terms of integration and management services. The bad...
November 20, 2009 2:48 PM
Posted by: Heather Clancy
Heather Clancy,
IT channel products and services,
Managed Print Services,
Managed services providers,
OKI Data,
XeroxThis is the time of year when journalists go nuts doing look-ahead or look-back interviews, and I am no exception. One of the subjects upon which I feel I owe myself a better education is managed services related to printer technology, because I feel it's one of those iceberg subjects. In other...
