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8/15/2007Going For The Gold
FINANCING MAY NOT BE as interesting as the latest gee-whiz technology, but it’s just as integral to an IT provider’s livelihood. ... [more]
8/15/2007Capitilizing On Cash Flow
When Sandy Kronenberg lands a new customer, the celebration lasts only a few seconds. Then, the arduous task of conducting credit checks, establishing terms, and structuring the deal begins. ... [more]
8/15/2007The Brave New World Of SaaS with Robert Bois
Software as a service (SaaS) offers end users the ability to access powerful software at a reasonable cost. But its growing popularity in the SMB market poses special challenges for channel partners accustomed to selling, installing, and maintaining software for their clients. ... [more]
8/15/2007Authorized Personnel Only
Every day, it seems, brings another headline about a high-profile information security breach. From department stores to banks to news media organizations, no company appears immune. ... [more]
8/15/2007New Intel Server Processors Provide Ultimate Choice in Speed and Energy Efficiency
Spanning 2.0 GHz at Only 50 Watts to 3.0 GHz, Customers Can Now Achieve Even Higher Performance with Greater Power Savings ... [more]
8/15/2007NEC DISPLAY SOLUTIONS INTRODUCES PORTABLE, 3,000-LUMEN LCD PROJECTOR FOR THE EDUCATION MARKET
NEC Display Solutions of America, Inc., a leading provider of innovative LCD flat panel displays, professional grade plasmas and projectors, and integrated display solutions, today introduced a new 3,000-lumen projector targeted mainly to the education market. ... [more]
8/15/2007D&H OPENS ITS FIRST INTERNATIONAL SUBSIDIARY
Responding to Requests from Canadian Partners, D&H Adds its First International Warehouse, with Plans to Acquire 1,000+ New Resellers, Dealers & Retail Customers ... [more]
3/13/2007Intel unveils two new quad core chips
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2/28/2007AMD Announces New ATI Chipset For Windows Vista
AMD's anticipated 690 chipset designed for Windows Vista and including integrated multimedia and graphics capabilities will be available on top-of-line motherboards in March. The 690 chipset, which comes in two flavors, the G and the V, will provide enhanced support for Windows Vista's high-performance graphics, 3-D capabilities and "Aero" user interface, as well as support for Microsoft's DirectX 9 advanced graphics APIs, the company said. ... [more]
2/26/2007D&H See Strong Vista, Office Sales With System Builders
D&H Distributing says that its sales of Microsoft's new Vista operating system exceeded its expectations, particularly in the system builder market... [more]
2/22/2007Prevent Daylight-Saving Time Problems On Smartphones
With daylight-saving time coming March 11 -- three weeks earlier than expected in the U.S. this year -- business technology managers are scrambling to update their applications, operating systems, and other software programs to handle the new date for the arrival of DST. They shouldn't overlook employees' mobile devices, which also are subject to the same problem. ... [more]
2/13/2007AMD Tries To Make Up With The Channel
After inventory problems led to angst in the channel in late 2006, AMD is trying to court partners back with price cuts, a more balanced global inventory and new manufacturing technologies. ... [more]
2/6/2007AMD Chips Away At Intel Market Share
San Jose, Calif. -- Advanced Micro Devices Inc. took its largest slice ever--25.3 percent--of the X86 market in the last quarter of 2006, according to a report released last week by PC market watcher Mercury Research. "Intel has had lower [quarterly] shares than this, but this is the lowest since late 1995," said Dean McCarron, principal of Mercury Research (Cave Creek, Ariz.). ... [more]
1/26/2007Intel Get’s It’s Groove Back
In Battle With AMD, Intel Gets Its Groove Back ... [more]
1/26/2007AMD Turns To VARs To Help Build SMB Market Share
Advanced Micro Devices has set its sights on small and midsize businesses this year and is developing new products, programs and incentives for VARs and resellers to execute on that mission. ... [more]
1/11/2007EH Publishing and NASBA Join Forces to Launch ChannelPro
EH Publishing, in association with NASBA, The Association of Channel Resellers, announced today the creation of ChannelPro Magazine: The Insider’s Guide to SMB and ChannelProOnline.com. ... [more]
12/21/2006CRN Interview: D&H Recounts 2006 Successes, Looks Ahead To 2007
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11/24/2006Office 2007 Won't Require Enterprise Activation
Microsoft won't require businesses that deploy Office 2007 to activate the suite, the company said Tuesday in an updated document on its Web site. ... [more]
11/14/2006Q&A: AMD Exec Promises Replenished Supply For System Builders
Stephen DiFranco, corporate vice president of marketing at Advanced Micro Devices, discussed AMD's shortage of desktop processors in the channel, why it happened and when the Sunnyvale, Calif.-based chip maker expects to replenish the supply for system builders in an interview with CRN Senior Writer Paula Rooney. ... [more]
11/14/2006Intel Launches First Quad-Cores, With More To Come Soon
Intel's launch of quad-core processors will drive adoption of high-end Xeon servers and virtualization technology, but it may take some time before the platform takes off in the marketplace, solution providers say. ... [more]
11/9/2006NEC Zooms In On Digital Signage
NEC, across the range, makes good products—no question about it," said Bill Zinck, an account manager at Avidex, a Bellevue, Wash.-based integrator. "For us, the digital signage market is growing."... [more]
11/3/2006Symantec Launches SMB Products, System Builder Program
Symantec on Wednesday raised the curtain on broad campaign to court small and midsize businesses that includes several Windows product updates and a new system builder program. ... [more]
11/2/2006HP To Push Thousands Of Named Accounts To Channel
Hewlett-Packard said it plans to move thousands of named direct accounts to the channel as part of a new sales engagement strategy set to go into effect Nov. 1.... [more]
11/2/2006IT equipment financing on the increase
Not only is the IT equipment financing activity rising, but more new business is also coming from the reseller channel, according to a recent report. The Equipment Leasing and Financing Association of America (ELFA) commissioned consultancy The Alta Group to conduct a study on how U.S. businesses and other organizations acquire IT equipment and what drives their decision-making process. Arlington, Va.-based ELFA released the study this week at the 45th annual ELFA Convention in Palm Desert, CA. ... [more]
11/2/2006Symantec launches new channel program for system builders
Symantec Corp. has announced a new channel program aimed at system builders to help them target small- and medium-sized (SMB) companies. The system builder program allows these solution providers to purchase backup and security software at the same time as system products in order to make custom solutions that are a total package offering instead of SMBs seeking security from another vendor. ... [more]
11/2/2006 D&H Offers Zune As iPod Alternative
D&H Distributing next week will become one of the first broadline distributors to carry Microsoft's new Zune, a portable multi-media device for viewing, playing, sharing and storing digital video, photo and music files. ... [more]
11/2/2006Adaptec Unveils New Software For Custom Storage Arrays
Adaptec this week officially joins the ranks of vendors bringing out software to turn an ordinary server into a storage array. ... [more]
10/31/2006Seagate unveils storage security platform
Outlining its' vision of storage security for the future, executives from Seagate Technology unveiled DriveTrust -- Seagate's new storage security platform and full disc encryption (FDE). ... [more]
10/23/2006AMD Unveils New Program To Embolden Partners
Consolidating its separate desktop and server programs under the Validated Solutions program will give channel partners a one-stop shop for their AMD64 commercial desktop and server needs. ... [more]
10/16/2006Leasing adding liquidity to SMB market
The owner of a New York based IT distributor/reseller has found it advantageous to rely on a third party leasing company in sales to the end user. Many businesses prefer to make leasing payments for the solution over a lengthy period of time -- usually lasting about three years -- rather than pay the entire amount upfront, said Kevin Iler, managing director and chief financial officer at ICP Inc, which generates about $85-million (US) in revenue, stemming from sales of security and other products and services to verticals, particularly the medical sector. ... [more]
10/16/2006Profits Soar At Samsung, Further Growth Expected
Samsung Electronics reports record quarter-on-quarter profits, with sales of memory chips and mobile phones leading the charge.... [more]
10/9/2006System Builders Applaud Vista Upgrade Coupon
System builders praised Microsoft's decision to offer an Express Upgrade coupon that gives buyers of Windows XP-based PCs a free or discounted upgrade to Windows Vista through March 15.... [more]
10/5/2006D&H Voted Most Valued Broadline Distributor
Major national computer and consumer electronics distributor D&H Distributing has been voted Most Valued Broadline Distributor in three of the top five survey categories in CRN's 2006 Preferred Sourcing Study. ... [more]
10/2/2006How To: Building A Viiv PC
For companies interested in offering Viiv PCs to their customers, here's a breakdown of what's needed and how to select the best components... [more]
10/2/2006Intel Offers $1M PC Design Challenge
Intel Corp. is challenging PC designers and manufacturers to think "sexy, stylish and small" as they design the next generation of home PCs... [more]
10/2/2006Whitebook Builders Profit From Notebook Battery Recall Fallout
Forget co-op dollars. Forget rebates. When it comes to whitebooks, FUD is the new MDF--thanks to the continuing fallout from the Sony bad-battery kerfuffle. ... [more]
10/2/2006D&H, Cisco Marriage Creates New Opportunities
D&H Distributing recently completed its first anniversary as a Cisco Systems distributor and both sides said they expect it to be a long marriage... [more]
9/28/2006Important Microsoft Office News
Important Microsoft Office News... [more]
9/18/2006Exposed: Dangers of the Gray Market
The inside story of how the murky gray market stuck one solution provider, a small business based in the Sunshine State, with a half-million dollars' worth of unsellable product. ... [more]
9/14/2006Microsoft Debuts First Next-Gen Service: Windows Live Search
Microsoft Tuesday launches its much anticipated Windows Live Search as the next pillars of its next generation search platform, Vista, Office 2007, SharePoint 2007, readied for release in the coming months. ... [more]
9/14/2006PC Sales Poised For Double-Digit Growth
Worldwide PC sales totaled 52 million units in the second quarter, and double-digit growth is expected for the remainder of the year, according to research firm IDC ... [more]
8/30/2006Intel Relaunches And Doubles Whitebook Rebates
Intel has reinstated the notebook processor rebate offered as part of its fledgling whitebook program, after some system builders pointed out that the rebate ended before the program developed legs. ... [more]
8/22/2006ATEN Develops Remote Management for Small and Medium-Size Businesses (SMBs) - Optimizing New or Exis
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8/17/2006Seagate To Keep Maxtor Brand
Seagate Technology on Wednesday said it plans to pursue a dual-brand strategy in the wake of its $1.9 billion acquisition of fellow hard- drive maker Maxtor. ... [more]
8/15/2006SANA SECURITY TAPPED BY INTENSITY COMPUTERS FOR IDENTITY THEFT PROTECTION
Sana Security, Inc., a security software company, today announced that Intensity Computers, a Canada-based custom personal computer assembly shop specializing in security best practices, has chosen Primary Response SafeConnect to provide instant and constant protection against malicious programs without relying on signatures and scanning ... [more]
8/14/2006For D&H, Small Is Big
Lots of distributors talk about serving small-business VARs, but most simply ignore that segment of the market. The exception is D&H Distributing. As it unveils a distribution pact with PC giant Lenovo, D&H is showing that it's the only major distributor that has built a big business around serving small solution providers that have been cast aside as simply not big enough by rival distributors. ... [more]
8/14/2006D&H Signs Deal To Distribute Lenovo Systems
D&H Distributing has signed a deal to distribute Lenovo desktops and notebooks, becoming the first new U.S. distributor for the vendor since it acquired the IBM PC business nearly two years ago. ... [more]
8/8/2006ATEN Technology Unveils New Video Matrix Switches for Education, Commercial and Security Environment
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7/31/2006Sana Security Extends Global Presence With European Partner
Scan Computers Offers Primary Response SafeConnect for Signature-Free Malware Protection... [more]
7/31/2006Symantec reports solid first quarter revenue and earnings
Symantec Corp. has reported results for its first quarter of fiscal year 2007, which ended June 30, 2006. GAAP (Generally Accepted Accounting Principles) revenue for the quarter was $1.26 billion and non-GAAP revenue was $1.28 billion. Non-GAAP revenue grew two per cent over the comparable period a year ago. ... [more]
7/31/2006Sana partners with NASBA to promote products to system builders
Sana Security has teamed up with NASBA to promote its security products to the system builder community in the hopes of expanding its presence in the channel. ... [more]
7/25/2006LAPLINK RELEASES ON-DEMAND WEB-BASED REMOTE SUPPORT SOFTWARE
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7/18/2006Seagate Introduces Fast, Centralized Storage for Small Office and Home Networks
New Maxtor Shared Storage II Network Storage and Backup Solution Features One Terabyte Capacity, Automatic Data Protection and Gigabit Ethernet for Fast Data Transfers and File Sharing ... [more]
7/12/2006 Intel Lays Out Guidelines For Premier Partners
Intel Lays Out Guidelines For Premier Partners Intel has disclosed more details about its revamped partner program, specifically about requirements to reach its top level. ... [more]
7/11/2006The New Intel® Channel Partner Program
The Intel® Channel Partner Program provides members-only access to an exceptional suite of benefits that support you throughout your business cycle. ... [more]
7/7/2006Qimonda Delivers Industry's First DDR3 SO-DIMM Samples to ATI for Future Notebook Designs - Leading
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7/6/2006CRN Interview: Intel's Whitebox Storage Strategy
Mike Wall, general manager of marketing for Intel's Storage Group, and Scott Peiffer, director of storage systems marketing, spoke with CRN senior editor Joseph Kovar about Intel's storage strategy and plans to deliver building blocks for the whitebox storage channel. ... [more]
7/6/2006Intel Revamps Decade-Old Channel Program
Intel has begun revamping its worldwide channel program under one umbrella in a move that changes the qualification programs and ultimately aims to provide an overarching indirect go-to-market platform. ... [more]
6/29/2006Digital Storage In The Home Goes Quiet
Digital storage in the home is getting bigger and quieter, as companies such as Hitachi and Seagate roll out super quiet storage technology for Media Center PCs, DVRs and home theater installations. ... [more]
6/21/2006HP Boosts Support for Channel Partners to Expand Their Competitive Edge
HP today announced that it is bolstering its channel program with increased financial incentives -- in some case by more than 50 percent -- and expanded field sales support to magnify the competitive advantage of its channel partners.... [more]
6/21/2006D&H's MID-ATLANTIC SHOW ATTRACTS 1,000+ RESELLER ATTENDEES
One of D&H's Best-Attended Regional Trade Shows To Date, the 2006 Mid-Atlantic Trade Show Featured Standing-Room-Only Seminars and More Than 90 Manufacturer Exhibits ... [more]
6/5/2006D&H NAMED "DISTRIBUTOR OF THE YEAR" AT DIGITAL CONNECT MAGAZINE'S "DICE" AWARDS
The Magazine's First-ever Distributor of the Year Award Goes to D&H for its Commitment to Integrators in the Digital Home and SOHO Markets ... [more]
5/31/2006D&H's DIGITAL CONVERGENCE EXPO EXPANDS TRAINING, ADDS EMERGING TECHNOLOGY AWARENESS
The 5TH Annual Event Hones In on Opportunities & Strategies of the Still-Growing Digital Home, including Intel Viiv, Digital Signage, TV "Placeshifting" and IP Video Surveillance ... [more]
5/31/2006Advanced Micro Devices unveils the AMD LIVE! PC
Advanced Micro Devices Inc. has unveiled the AMD LIVE! PC -- a full-featured, Windows-based media centre PC. ... [more]
5/30/2006Seagate, ViewSonic, Belkin Receive Digital Channel Honors
Seagate, ViewSonic and Belkin were the big winners at the first annual Digital Integration Channel Execellence (DICE) awards ceremony at this week's TechConnect XChange conference, hosted by Digital Connect Magazine's parent company CMP Technology. ... [more]
5/30/2006SEAGATE TECHNOLOGY COMPLETES ACQUISITION OF MAXTOR CORPORATION
Integration to be Substantially Completed by Early Calendar 2007 EPS Accretion Target of 10-20% Confirmed ... [more]
5/30/2006White Books: One Size Fits All
Even if such a notebook gained some measure of early acceptance, another hurdle to overcome would be upgrading it. ... [more]
5/18/2006ViewSonic seeks channel boost with NASBA
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5/18/2006PCs: AMD grows, Dell slows
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5/17/2006Laplink’s Best-Selling PCmover® Software Now Supports Windows XP Media Center PCs
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5/15/2006Whitebook Builders Score New Windows OS Rebates
The final piece in Intel's plan to help accelerate system builders&' whitebook business fell into place as Microsoft rolled out its promised contribution: rebates for the Windows operating systems used in custom notebooks. ... [more]
5/15/2006Dallman's Grounded Approach To Intel's Interchangeability Initiative
Steve Dallman, Intel's director of distribution and channel sales and marketing is convinced that broad-based acceptance of Intel's Interchangeability Initiative (III) is inevitable. The man in charge of selling III to the channel sat down with senior editor of technology Ed Scannell to spell out why III will be hard to resist. ... [more]
5/15/2006 Intel sets its sights on the custom-notebook market, with support from the three largest original
Intel hopes its recently announced Interchangeability Initiative (III) for white books swells to the same-size wave it surfed so well in both the white-box desktop and server markets. ... [more]
5/8/2006Intel Brands Next-Gen Client Processors, Cuts Prices On Existing Parts
Intel plans to continue its Core Duo motif in the next batch of processors shipping in the second half of the year, the chip maker is expected to announce Monday. Meanwhile, the company is reducing prices on many existing parts. ... [more]
5/5/2006McAfee Launches VirusScan For Mactel
Taking advantage of increased worries about Mac OS X vulnerabilities, McAfee has launched an antivirus product for Intel-based Macs. ... [more]
5/4/2006ViewSonic increases sales by 104 per cent, offers new technologies
ViewSonic's 104 per cent growth is based on its recently enhanced line of projectors that include portable, home theatre and large boardroom displays. ... [more]
5/4/2006ViewSonic Drives Channel Growth with NASBA Partnership
To expand its footprint and commitment to the channel community, ViewSonic(R) Corp. today announced a new corporate partnership with NASBA, the Association of Channel Resellers. The partnership will connect ViewSonic to more than 14,000 of NASBA's reseller members to secure new business opportunities. ... [more]
5/2/2006ATEN Technology Launches New CAT5 KVM Switch with Capability to Control More Than 8,000 Computers
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5/1/2006Seagate Brings Out Gigantic 750-Gigabyte Hard Drive
Seagate Technology LLC (STX) is beefing up the capacity of its hard disk drives to a whopping 750 gigabytes, offering consumers of digital media more storage for their computers than ever before. ... [more]
4/28/2006Intel To Speed Product Releases, Cut Costs, Bolster Supply
Stung by declining sales and market-share losses to rival Advanced Micro Devices, Intel plans to slash costs, accelerate product releases and ensure channel partners have an adequate supply, CEO Paul Otellini says. ... [more]
4/27/2006Nvidia Steps Up Validated Desktop Platform With Management Capabilities
Business Platform features will now stack up against Intel’s ... [more]
4/26/2006WD RE2 500 GB SATA Hard Drives Deliver Industry-leading 1.2 Million Hours MTBF at 100 Percent Duty C
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4/26/2006Intel Slashes Desktop Chip Pricing
Intel is cutting prices on its higher-end desktop processors by up to 50 percent ... [more]
4/25/2006Intel announces vPro for business PCs
Intel's newest technology offers enhanced security, manageability, and energy-efficiency. ... [more]
4/19/2006Seagate's Cheetah Sprints for the Channel
The new Cheetah 15K.5 hard drive offers faster response and double the capacity of standard 15K drives, Seagate says. ... [more]
4/13/2006AMD Beats Street, Touts Higher Average Selling Prices
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4/12/2006Intel honors channel partners
Intel recently honored nine premier channel partners for marketing innovations at the 2006 Intel Solutions Summit, from small firms providing software solutions to international businesses that offering server and storage products. ... [more]
3/30/2006ATI Takes Swipe At Nvidia
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3/30/2006D&H offers advanced security products
D&H has signed up agreements with various vendors to provide simpler and less expensive all-in-one security offerings. The company reports that resellers can earn margins as high as 15 to 20 per cent here ... [more]
3/29/2006Intel Set For Big Storage Push
Intel will be making a big push into storage over the next year with a wide range of NAS, SAN and JBOD storage appliances for the system builder community, CRN has learned. ... [more]
3/28/2006Intel Adds New NAS Platform To Custom-Build Family
Intel used this month's Intel Developer Forum to introduce a new entry-level NAS platform to its custom-system builder community. ... [more]
3/22/2006Intel Details New Channel Exclusives At Partner Summit Intel got behind the idea of channel-exclusiv
Intel Details New Channel Exclusives At Partner Summit Intel got behind the idea of channel-exclusive offerings at the Intel Solutions Summit, rolling out the completed details of its whitebook initiative and offering up for the first time a channel-only server CPU. ... [more]
3/14/2006Wintel Duo Readies Whitebook Channel Program Intel and Microsoft are teaming up
Wintel Duo Readies Whitebook Channel Program Intel and Microsoft are teaming up to accelerate whitebook business through a specialized channel program for Intel Premier Provider partners. ... [more]
3/14/2006Intel Plans Channel-Only Xeon Priced As Low As $200
Intel plans to offer a dual-core Xeon processor, based on its new Bensley platform, exclusively for the channel, and system builders expect the chip to be priced at about $200 after rebates. ... [more]
3/10/2006VIKING INTERWORKS™ AND MINDSPEED® ANNOUNCE A COMPLETE “OFFICE-IN-A-BOX” WIRELESS ROUTER, VPN AND VOI
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3/8/2006Intel Debuts Entry-Level NAS To Custom System Builders
ntel Debuts Entry-Level NAS To Custom System Builders Intel at IDF introduced a new entry-level NAS platform to its custom system builder community. The vendor's new Intel Entry Storage System SS4000-E, unveiled at the Intel Developer Forum in San Francisco, is aimed at small business users and the branch offices of midsized businesses. It can also be used by sophisticated home users. ... [more]
3/8/2006Intel Unveils Next Mobile Platform
Intel's next-generation mobile platform will use flash memory to speed up system boots and application launch in notebooks. ... [more]
3/7/2006Intel unveils details of new chip design
Intel Corporation today disclosed details of its forthcoming Intel® Core™ microarchitecture, a new industry–leading foundation for Intel’s multi–core server, desktop and mobile processors for computers later this year. The first Intel Core microarchitecture products built on Intel’s advanced 65nm process technology ... [more]
3/7/2006AMD unveils three new dual-core Opteron chips
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3/6/2006ATEN Technology Launches 8-Port “Slideaway” LCD KVM Switch
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3/6/2006D&H NAMED AXIS' "DISTRIBUTOR OF THE YEAR"
Two Significant Vendor Awards in a Month Show D&H's Commitment to Growing its Partners' Market Share, and Delivering Top-Flight Technologies to VARs ... [more]
3/3/2006VISIONEER AWARDS D&H DISTRIBUTING “FASTEST GROWING DISTRIBUTOR OF THE YEAR”
Visioneer, Inc announced that D&H Distributing was named its Fastest Growing Distributor of the Year for 2005. ... [more]
3/2/2006Surveillance Data Finds a Home on Seagate Hard Drives
To help address the growing interest in heightened security and the corresponding move by organizations to record and store volumes of data onto video, Seagate Technology announced on March 1 its new SV35 Series hard drive product family. ... [more]
2/21/2006ATEN Technology KVM Solutions Achieve Linux Certification
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2/15/2006ATEN Technology Bolsters Data Center Security with New RADIUS-Compliant KVM on the NET(TM) Solution
New CN5000 Control Unit Connects to Existing KVMs for Remote Access Functionality and Secures Networks With RADIUS Server Authentication ... [more]
2/15/2006VIKING INTERWORKS SHIPS 576MB RDRAM NexMod
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2/14/2006ATI introduces mobile workstation graphics technology
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2/13/2006NEC releases Electra Elite IPK II
NEC Unified Solutions has released the second generation of its Electra Elite IPK converged IP communications platform for SMBs. ... [more]
2/12/2006Samsung issues 100GB and120GB 2.5-inch mobile hard drives
Samsung Electronics Ltd. had unveiled four new 2.5-inch hard disk drives designed for notebook and enterprise computing applications. ... [more]
2/9/2006AMD increases diversity of options for systems builders
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2/8/2006NASBA launches home automation tele-training program
NASBA, a channel organization with over 14,000 member companies servicing the white box, integrator, and solution provider industry segments throughout North America, will offer a one hour tele-seminar training program each month during the coming year. The program, available to all resellers, focuses on strategy, sales tips, and technical insights in the growing home automation area, and is jointly sponsored by NASBA and Intel Corp. ... [more]
2/7/2006AMCC forges partnership with D&H Distributing
The Sunnyvale, Calif.-based Applied Micro Circuits Corp. has signed a distribution agreement with D&H Distributing to carry its 3ware 9550SX series serial (SATA) II Raid controllers, as well as its 9000 series SATA RAID controllers.... [more]
2/6/2006Emc expands further into smb market with tailored line of hardware and software products
Emc insignia line of products enable smbs to leverage emc information management and storage expertise with easy-to-use products... [more]
1/31/2006ATEN simplifies server room management
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1/23/2006Intel Says There's No Place Like Home
Intel wants to convince systems integrators, whose margins selling to commercial markets have been steadily shrinking, to focus more on the digital home in 2006. To do so, the No. 1 chipmaker is introducing a number of aggressive partner programs and associated marketing campaigns. ... [more]
1/20/2006D&H to distribute Tandberg tape drives
The StorageLoader, InteliStor and LTO tape drive product lines will address a significantly expanded customer base that includes SMBs seeking more sophisticated technologies that can help them compete against larger competitors. ... [more]
1/19/2006Seagate introduces notebook hard drives with perpendicular recording technology
Seagate becomes the first vendor to bring a 2.5-inch notebook PC disc drive using perpendicular recording technology to market, which will increase drive density and capacity, and improve performance and reliability. ... [more]
1/19/2006Logitech rings in the new year
Logitech International has posted record financial results for the third quarter of FY 2006, ended December 31, 2005, its twenty-ninth consecutive quarter of double-digit sales growth. Sales were $574 million, up 19 percent from $484 million in the same quarter last year. ... [more]
1/18/2006Fujitsu Enters Small Drive Market With Cornice
Fujitsu Enters Small Drive Market With Cornice Fujitsu Ltd. said it will produce 1.8-inch hard-disk drives for portable music players, video cameras and notebooks PCs. ... [more]
1/18/2006Cracking Dell's Code
Shifting market conditions, poor business decisions and lagging technology are creating fissures in the direct-sales giant--and creating opportunities for solution providers ... [more]
1/18/2006An Independent Study Reveals That Laplink PCmover Can Increase PC Sales
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1/17/2006You Can't Manage What You Don't Measure!
With more than 70 percent of Vendors relying on indirect sales channels to distribute their products and capture market share, there is an increasing need for accurate, useful and continuous channel information... ... [more]
1/16/2006AMCC, Maxtor Give Mac Users a Taste of Storage
Establishing a foothold within the largely untapped Macintosh platform storage arena, Applied Micro Circuits Corp. and Maxtor Corp. have rolled out new Serial ATA II-based RAID and backup offerings at Macworld Expo this week. ... [more]
1/12/2006NEC Try-and-Buy program shows dual monitor advantages
The trend towards two monitors on the desktop offers the channel another opportunity to "double up" some profits. ... [more]
1/11/2006Jobs Launches Intel-Based iMacs, Notebooks At Macworld
Steve Jobs on Tuesday officially opened the door to the Intel era at Apple. At Macworld in San Francisco, the Apple CEO took the wraps off the first Macintosh computers to use Intel chips: two new iMac all-in-one desktops and two MacBook Pro notebooks, all of which run on the new Intel Core Duo processors. ... [more]
1/11/2006Microsoft's Media Center Blitz
Media Center Edition To Move Into Vista... [more]
1/9/2006D-Link, Buffalo Beef Up Their Networking, Storage And Entertainment Lines
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1/9/2006Intel Launches Next-Gen Notebook Platform With Common Building Blocks For The Channel
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1/5/2006Google Software Bundle, Google Video Rental Coming Soon
ThreadWatch writes that the Wall Street Journal has the scoop on Google's CES announcement, and its a video download rental service… and a software bundle? ... [more]
1/4/2006Seagate boosts storage 30%
The Seagate Portable Hard Drive will boost storage capacity to 160GB, which is 30% over the current standard while maintaining the same compact footprint. ... [more]
1/4/2006ATEN Technology, Inc. Announces New Slideaway LCD KVM Console
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12/20/2005Netgear Upgrades SMB Networking Products
NetGear Upgrades SMB Networking Products NetGear has unveiled three new Presage stackable smart switches and a dual-band wireless access point that incorporates stronger security features. ... [more]
12/16/2005Intel reveals more of Napa, Viiv
The chip maker has provided additional information on two of its key initiatives for 2006, the first dual-core mobile platform and a new ecosystem that is intended to make the PC more attractive for the digital home market. ... [more]
12/14/2005IOGEAR triples data speeds
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12/8/2005D-Link Adds Bandwidth Management Tool
D-Link has upgraded two of its high-end VPN/firewall products and introduced a new application security gateway to its NetDefend line of small business networking security products ... [more]
12/8/2005Intel breakthrough: 50% more performance, 1000% less energy
Intel Corporation has announced development of a new, ultra-fast, yet very low power prototype transistor using new materials that could form the basis of its microprocessors and other logic products beginning in the second half of the next decade. ... [more]
11/28/2005Intel outlines channel bets for 2006
The chipmaking giant says there are three big opportunities for the channel next year -- digital home, notebooks and servers, and advises resellers to pick their space early. ... [more]
11/15/2005Netgear to release RangeMax 240 products this holiday season
Netgear has announced a new RangeMax wireless networking product aimed primarily at the consumer market. However, there is also some interest from the small business market for the RangeMax 240. ... [more]
11/14/2005Intel unveils virtualization desktop processors
With the introduction of the Pentium 4 672 and 662 chips, Intel is offering users the ability to run multiple operating systems on a single processor. Moreover, the new single-core chips have transistors designed to improve the performance of virtualization software ... [more]
11/1/2005Intel mounts SMB storage play
With analysts stating data is doubling at a quickening pace, Intel said the need to provide SMBs with a quick and easy way to add storage to existing infrastructures is at an all-time high. The chipmaker introduced a new low-cost hardware and software storage platform recently. ... [more]
11/1/2005Seagate and Adaptec announce bundled SAS SCSI starter kit
Adaptec and Seagate are teaming up to promote a new channel program designed to promote early SAS SCSI deployments by systems builders and resellers. ... [more]
10/31/2005ATEN Technology Announces New DVI Video Expansion Solutions
New DVI-Compliant Video Splitters Enhance Trade Shows, Conferences and Classroom Environments ... [more]
10/27/2005AMD unveils commercial channel program
Advanced Micro Devices Inc. (AMD) has introduced the AMD Commercial Channel Access Program as a means to enhance and extend the company's commitment to partners' business needs and contribute to their continued growth and success in the commercial market. ... [more]
10/27/2005Intel Makes Multimedia Services Faster, Easier And More Affordable
Intel Corporation announced new hardware and software products that will simplify the deployment of multimedia solutions and Internet Protocol (IP) services such as Voice over IP (VoIP) in pure IP and hybrid enterprise networks. ... [more]
10/20/2005At home with NASBA
NASBA is partnering with the Consumer Electronics Association (CEA) to give the channel an 'edge' in the digital home market. The initiative is designed to strengthen business opportunities for resellers in the digital home market through access to resources from NASBA, CEA and its flagship event, the International Consumer Electronics Show (CES), and D&H Distributing's CEA Member Savings Program. ... [more]
10/19/2005VODA MAKES IT ONTO THE PROFIT HOT 50 LIST OF CANADA’S EMERGING GROWTH COMPANIES
Kamloops, BC –Voda Computer Systems Ltd., located in Kamloops and Kelowna with satellite offices in Penticton and Grand Forks, has been named to the PROFIT HOT 50 by Profit: Your Guide to Business Success Magazine. Ranking #41, the company received the recognition for achieving a 144 percent growth in sales between 2002 and 2004. ... [more]
10/18/2005Microsoft Updates Media Center PC 2005
Microsoft releases what may be the final update scheduled for Windows XP Media Center a day ahead of a New York event where the company touted strong sales and announced new services from partners. ... [more]
10/13/2005Alvaka Networks and Ingram Micro Offer Exclusive Channel Access to Advanced Network Management Servi
Huntington Beach, Calif. (PRWEB) October 12, 2005 -- Alvaka Networks announces an ag