http://blog.itchannelplanet.com/ Examining business issues and IT trends that impact the profitability of VARs and channel partners. en-us Copyright 2010 Sat, 13 Mar 2010 16:28:35 -0500 http://www.sixapart.com/movabletype/ http://www.rssboard.org/rss-specification Distributor Tech Data Corp. said that its Healthcare Specialized Business unit, which recently launched a vendor affiliate program, will offer grant writing and tracking services for channel partners selling to healthcare providers and organizations.The distributor said it has partnered with... http://blog.itchannelplanet.com/2010/03/tech-data-offers-health-care-g.html http://blog.itchannelplanet.com/2010/03/tech-data-offers-health-care-g.html Tech Data distribution government grant writing health care Sat, 13 Mar 2010 16:28:35 -0500 Hitachi Data Systems said that its nine-year long reseller relationship with Sun Microsystems will end at the close of this month, according to an email the storage maker sent to solution providers, a copy of which was posted in a... http://blog.itchannelplanet.com/2010/03/hitachisun-reseller-relationsh.html http://blog.itchannelplanet.com/2010/03/hitachisun-reseller-relationsh.html channel partners Hitachi Data Systems Oracle storage Sun Microsystems Wed, 03 Mar 2010 10:33:06 -0500 A recent study on U.S. broadband adoption conducted by the Federal Communications Commission revealed that affordability and lack of online skills inhibit adoption by some 93 million people in the U.S. currently absent high speed Internet connections at home.The FCC... http://blog.itchannelplanet.com/2010/02/fcc-survey-shows-affordability.html http://blog.itchannelplanet.com/2010/02/fcc-survey-shows-affordability.html broadband access FCC Internet online Fri, 26 Feb 2010 13:48:58 -0500 Hewlett-Packard Co. said it has elevated Tom Iannotti, currently managing director and senior vice president of its Americas and Enterprise Business, to lead its Enterprise Services unit.Iannotti replaces Joe Eazor, who moves over to HP's Office of Strategy and Technology... http://blog.itchannelplanet.com/2010/02/hp-appoints-new-leader-for-ent.html http://blog.itchannelplanet.com/2010/02/hp-appoints-new-leader-for-ent.html China enterprise Hewlett-Packard services Thu, 25 Feb 2010 17:21:36 -0500 Google Inc. has confirmed reports that it purchased Aardvark, a free question-and-answer web site, for a reported $50 million, continuing its strategy to add users by snapping up services companies.Reports first surfaced in December in a number of IT publications... http://blog.itchannelplanet.com/2010/02/google-buys-aardvark-for-50-mi.html http://blog.itchannelplanet.com/2010/02/google-buys-aardvark-for-50-mi.html Wed, 17 Feb 2010 21:09:23 -0500 IBM Corp. is crediting competitive displacements from former Sun Microsystems Inc. and Hewlett Packard Co. customers with prompting Q4 2009 upticks in its revenue share for Unix servers, System x and storage.The vendor said that it added $200 million from... http://blog.itchannelplanet.com/2010/02/ibm-credits-customer-migration.html http://blog.itchannelplanet.com/2010/02/ibm-credits-customer-migration.html Tue, 16 Feb 2010 13:35:46 -0500 Security vendor Kaspersky Labs recently named Kristen Capone, a software industry veteran, to head its Green Team channel program in North America, giving further weight to its stated intention to pump up enterprise sales.Capone's appointment comes on the heels of... http://blog.itchannelplanet.com/2010/02/kaspersky-labs-names-new-head.html http://blog.itchannelplanet.com/2010/02/kaspersky-labs-names-new-head.html Mon, 15 Feb 2010 19:47:57 -0500 McAfee Inc. said it will provide Facebook's 350 million users with a free, six-month subscription to a jointly-developed, custom suite of its security software.The solution includes McAfee's security software, a special scanning and repair tool and education materials that Facebook... http://blog.itchannelplanet.com/2010/01/mcafee-provides-security-softw.html http://blog.itchannelplanet.com/2010/01/mcafee-provides-security-softw.html Facebook McAfee security software Fri, 15 Jan 2010 13:58:09 -0500 A majority of developers plan to move at least a portion of their IT resources to the public cloud this year, according to a recent study by Evans Data Corp., a Santa Cruz, CA-based researcher.Data from the researcher's Cloud Development... http://blog.itchannelplanet.com/2010/01/developers-moving-it-resources.html http://blog.itchannelplanet.com/2010/01/developers-moving-it-resources.html cloud computing Evans Data hybrid cloud private cloud virtualization Thu, 14 Jan 2010 15:20:06 -0500 Distributor Ingram Micro Inc. said that increased demand for memory and mobile storage prompted it to expand its relationship with Transcend Information Inc., a Taipei, Taiwan-headquartered maker of IT storage and multimedia gear, to include the U.S. market.Ingram's prior distribution... http://blog.itchannelplanet.com/2010/01/ingram-expands-memory-deal-wit.html http://blog.itchannelplanet.com/2010/01/ingram-expands-memory-deal-wit.html distributor Ingram Micro memory Transcend Thu, 14 Jan 2010 13:29:04 -0500 Cisco Systems Inc. is dropping some hints that extensions to its Easy Lease end user financing program currently running in Europe might soon be headed for the U.S. market.In an online video posted last week, Maryann von Seggern, Cisco Capital... http://blog.itchannelplanet.com/2010/01/cisco-easy-lease-offer-headed.html http://blog.itchannelplanet.com/2010/01/cisco-easy-lease-offer-headed.html channel partners Cisco financing leasing Mon, 04 Jan 2010 16:24:21 -0500 Brian Wiser, Ingram Micro senior vice president, sales and marketing, carried the Olympic torch at a relay event at Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario, Canada, held in mid-December. The Olympic torch is being transported in relay events some 45,000 kilometers across Canada, a... http://blog.itchannelplanet.com/2010/01/ingram-exec-carries-olympic-to.html http://blog.itchannelplanet.com/2010/01/ingram-exec-carries-olympic-to.html Acer Ingram Micro Mon, 04 Jan 2010 16:18:22 -0500 Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:"Table Normal"; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; mso-style-noshow:yes; mso-style-priority:99; mso-style-qformat:yes; mso-style-parent:""; mso-padding-alt:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; mso-para-margin:0in; mso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt; line-height:115%; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font:minor-fareast; mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri;... http://blog.itchannelplanet.com/2009/12/last-days-for-suns-try-and-buy.html http://blog.itchannelplanet.com/2009/12/last-days-for-suns-try-and-buy.html Sun Microsystems Mon, 14 Dec 2009 18:59:35 -0500 Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:"Table Normal"; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; mso-style-noshow:yes; mso-style-priority:99; mso-style-qformat:yes; mso-style-parent:""; mso-padding-alt:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; mso-para-margin:0in; mso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt; line-height:115%; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font:minor-fareast; mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri;... http://blog.itchannelplanet.com/2009/12/hp-appoints-new-senior-vp-of-l.html http://blog.itchannelplanet.com/2009/12/hp-appoints-new-senior-vp-of-l.html enterprise Hewlett Packard imaging LaserJet printing Fri, 11 Dec 2009 18:55:31 -0500 Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:"Table Normal"; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; mso-style-noshow:yes; mso-style-priority:99; mso-style-qformat:yes; mso-style-parent:""; mso-padding-alt:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; mso-para-margin:0in; mso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt; line-height:115%; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font:minor-fareast; mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri;... http://blog.itchannelplanet.com/2009/12/ibm-global-services-awards-avn.html http://blog.itchannelplanet.com/2009/12/ibm-global-services-awards-avn.html Avnet distribution IBM Global Services services SMB Thu, 10 Dec 2009 20:51:08 -0500