Lenovo at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) is introducing a new line of ThinkPads. The ThinkPad Edge effort includes a hardware redesign that leaves boxy appearances behind. In some ways, Lenovo might be channeling their inner Apple a little bit with a few of the design efforts. Here are the details.
I’m not sure if anyone knows who coined the phrase, but Google certainly pioneered it. “The browser is the OS.” With the launch of Google Chrome and the idea of instant-on cloud computing, there’s a feeling that — yeah — pretty much everything you use a computer for these days revolves around if you’ve actually got an Internet connection. And as long as you’re not a PC Gamer, what do you need your computer to do?
Is Google mulling a more aggressive move into the hardware market with a range of partners? Could Google’s Chrome OS set the stage for a Google Netbook? Buzz about a potential Google Netbook seems to be growing. But will Google really make the move — and what are the implications for solutions providers?
Full disclosure: I own an Amazon Kindle 2. I’ve had it for 3 months now, and I can’t really say enough good things about it. It’s a solid piece of technology that’ll be there for me for years to come. With the recent firmware update that included PDF support and extended battery life with wireless Whispernet on, it’s golden. Two weeks of continuous use with the wireless off, seven days with it on.
For the last week I’ve been playing around with VMware Fusion 3.01 on my Mac. I’ve had the pleasure of running Windows 7 and I’m here to share a quick little rundown of performance and features. For the geek at heart it’s a software marvel. For the cross platform techno-junky it’s a God-send.
Avnet executives converged on New York last week — meeting with Wall Street analysts to recap 2009 and preview 2010. Our blog team caught up with Philip Gallagher (pictured), president of Avnet Technology Solutions.
A quick heads up: F5 Networks has tapped Gary Abad as VP of North America Channel Sales. He reports to global channel chief Dean Darwin. Here are some fast details about the news. Abad has 20 years experience in the tech sector. Before this move, Abad was a VP of Channel Sales at Polycom. Earlier, […]
You might know Dataram as that company doing a few cool things in the solid state market. Next up, Dataram is launching a new channel partner program to get more feet on the ground and take their product to market. Here’s the details… Calling it an expansion on the existing “go-to-market” strategy, Dataram is looking to […]
More than a year ago, Avnet CEO Roy Vallee offered an open letter to Cisco Systems — asking the networking giant to work with the specialty distributor. Cisco has finally answered that open letter. Here are the details. Cisco confirmed plans to work with Avnet on Dec. 17, 2009. Making it doubly sweet: Avnet was […]
ADTRAN is well-known in the networking market. Now, the company is making the move into unified communications. I spoke to Ted Cole, senior VP channel sales at ADTRAN, to get a feel for the company’s channel program and unified communications move. Cole’s key takeaway: He thinks partners can now build end-to-end solutions leveraging ADTRAN’s product […]
A large number of corporations seem ready to show Windows 7 some love. But here’s the twist: Many of those same corporations say they’ve increased spending with Apple, according to a recent Goldman Sachs survey of Fortune 1000 IT executives. Here are some quick details.
The survey, involving 100 IT executives representing Fortune 1000 companies, reinforced some recent IT trends:
Move over NETGEAR and Linksys. ZyXel (pronounced ZEE-cell) is promoting a mobile wireless router (MWR) with more options than you can shake a stick at. I think it has the potential to change the way you (and your customers) use the mobile Internet. Here’s why.
McAfee — only a few months after acquiring SaaS security specialist MX Logic — is providing some clues and statements about the company’s managed services strategy. Here’s a look.
In this McAfee-produced video, Rob Louks, senior VP of worldwide professional services, shares some managed services insights:
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As a former help-desk technician, I have some strong opinions about managed print services (MPS). Channel chatter about the MPS market is growing louder. More MPS conferences are planned, more research is surfacing and our third-annual MSPmentor 100 survey reveals some interesting MPS trends. So where is managed print heading next? Here are some clues. According […]
Amid an ocean of unified computing options, Liquid Computing is looking for a little respect. No surprise, CEO Vikram Desai wants VARs to look beyond VBlock (the Cisco, EMC and VMware data center initiative) media coverage.
Potential good news for government VARs: F5 Networks, Inc says their BIG-IP Global Traffic Manager (GTM) complies with DNSSEC 2009 (domain name system security extensions) compliance requirements. Not sure what all that technical jargon means? Here’s the scoop. F5 says BIG-IP GTM protects customers’ DNS infrastructures against attacks, and apparently reduces management costs. Since DNSEEC standards can […]
The Netbook World Summit (NWS) is coming to town. That is, if you live in Paris, France. December 8th 2009 will mark the 2nd year of the annual Netbook Summit. It’s an international conference designed to chat, engage and examine the emerging netbook market.
Initially, critics blamed Microsoft for a Black Screen of Death (BSOD) issue that has plagued Windows 7, Vista and XP in recent weeks. But Microsoft points to malware as the potential cause of the problem. Here’s the blow-by-blow. Early reports wondered if recent Microsoft service packs and code fixes caused the problem. Microsoft soon told PCWorld.com […]
You read it here first. On November 24th The VAR guy speculated Apple might be making a leap into the POS (point of sale) device arena. Call it an educated hunch, based on recent trends in the Apple Stores. But it turns out, Apple might be turning around and trying to make a buck off […]
The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 — also known as the economic stimulus package — includes $19 billion for health care information technology. Avnet Technology Solutions sees a particularly big opportunity for VARs to focus on storage solutions for medical images and electronic health records (EHR). Here’s how. Avnet Technology Solutions is now […]
