Anybody selling IT infrastructure in the channel these days knows that great change is upon us. There is a shift towards pre-integrated servers that come complete with storage and switches that are being heavily promoted under the concept of data center convergence. The basic idea is that if all these IT infrastructure components are pre-integrated, [...]
Panda Cloud Office Protection combines the best features of desktop security with the flexibility of consolidated remote management into a single, easy to deploy package
Channel Tech Center looks at the current trends and tries our best to predict this years most profitable technologies.
Adtran’s latest routers have the moxie to push Cisco from the must buy list.
One of my favorite pieces of software is from Zimbra (or Yahoo! Zimbra as they call it in some circles), a company that offers a mixture of open source and commercial email products. Zimbra’s desktop is one of my favorite open source products available today- with it I can access my email and schedules from [...]
We take a look back at 2009 and give our opinion of what the most important products for the channel were and a brief reason why.
One of the biggest challenges when it comes to selling IT on any level is getting a proof of concept deployment set up in the first place. Customers are generally interested in almost anything a credible solution provider has to say. But before they buy something, they usually want to see a working demonstration in [...]
One of the things that drives a customer into the arms of solution providers more easily than anything else is anything to do with managing ongoing IT operations. Every customer out there falls in love with one application or another, but when it comes to living with that application they inevitably want somebody else to [...]
At the end of the day, solution providers in the channel need viable technologies that not only sell themselves, but also create an opportunity for the solution provider to deliver downstream services that are the key to ultimately being profitable. What follows is a list of 10 technology areas that in the last year have [...]
Unless you’re been away somewhere for a very long time, you’re aware that VMware and Citrix are now locked in mortal combat over which company is going to control the future of desktop virtualization.
Arguably, Citrix is the incumbent because of its long history with terminal services. But VMware has been coming on strong in its [...]

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