Recent Articles
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Channel Success Lessons from Obama`s Victory
Barrack Obama is the 44th president of the United States. This is truly an historic moment in American history and marks a turning point in our political and social culture. Over the next few days, political analysts and media commentators will reflect upon the wave of success Obama and his campaign achieved in capturing previous…
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Avaya Names Kennedy as CEO
Networking communications vendor Avaya Inc. has named Kevin Kennedy to the role of CEO, effective January 2009. Kennedy currently serves as CEO of JDS Uniphase Corp. and is a member of its board of directors. Kennedy replaces Charles Giancarlo in the role. Giancarlo has been serving as acting CEO since longtime President and CEO Lou…
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CDW: IT Decision Maker Confidence Declines
Confidence among IT decision makers everywhere declined in September, but particularly among local, state and federal government IT executives as tax revenues slowed and budgets tightened. That’s according to the most recent edition of the CDW IT Monitor, a bimonthly indicator of IT confidence in the marketplace, culled from surveys of 1,000 or more IT…
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Asigra Gets Flexible on Pricing
Recognizing that its backup and recovery technology isn’t exactly cheap, storage vendor Asigra is no longer requiring channel partners to lay out tens of thousands of dollars up front for the software. Instead, the vendor is licensing its Televaulting backup and recovery platform to partners on a month-to-month basis, with partners paying $500 monthly or…
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Ingram Micro Says SMB Loan Repayments on Track
Defaults on technology financing deals are on the rise, raising concerns about the ongoing availability of credit for such deals, according to a report, but technology distributors and technology vendors with captive financing arms say credit is still available for qualified businesses. Ingram Micro CEO Greg Spierkel told financial analysts during an earnings call last…
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Ingram Micro, Avnet Report Earnings in Wall Street Meltdown Aftermath
Disappointing revenues, low visibility and more interest in lease financing characterized the quarter for technology distributors Ingram Micro and Avnet, reporting their earnings on Oct. 23. "The quarter wasn’t what we expected it to be," said Greg Spierkel, CEO of the world’s largest technology distributor, Ingram Micro. "When we started out and put our forecast…