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Tech Data Forecasts Strong Q1
If there’s a recession going on, no one told IT distributor Tech Data. In reporting its fourth-quarter and year-end earnings on March 4, the company announced that it just concluded a year where it posted record net sales for every quarter. And the company is forecasting higher sales again in the first quarter. CEO Bob Dutkowsky said…
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Tech Data Quarterly Profit Rises 39 Percent
NEW YORK, March 4 (Reuters) – Computer products distributor Tech Data Corp. posted a better-than-expected 39 percent rise in quarterly profit Tuesday on stronger worldwide sales and improvement in gross margins. Net income for the fiscal fourth quarter ended Jan. 31 rose to $50.2 million, or 92 cents a share, from $36.1 million, or 66…
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Ingram Micro Gives VARs Shortcut to Virtualization
VARs looking to add virtualization to what they offer but hesitate because of the learning curve involved now have a new option from distribution giant Ingram Micro. The company announced March 3 at its Ingram Micro’s Seismic Virtual Services Warehouse event in New Orleans that it would offer a lineup of virtualization assessment and delivery…
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Distribution Diversifies into Denim
Word reaches me of some strange goings-on in distribution…. One very well-known distributor it seems is trying to make good use of any empty warehouse space it has available … by distributing jeans. Yes, the denim kind. Not much technology related to that — unless of course it’s the new CEO dress-down Friday uniform and…
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Kaseya: Mac Support Here Linux and Smart Phones by December
Kaseya will add support for Intel’s vPro and Mac clients as well as provide a new application programming interface to its Kaseya 2008 platform for managed service providers, set to be available at the end of March, the company announced Feb. 29. And later this year the company plans to introduce support for Linux as…
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Intuit Offers VARs Code-Free Way to Build Their Own SAAS
Looking to attract VARs and business domain experts as partners for its build-your-own SAAS offering, Intuit has introduced a formal channel program for its code-free application development and hosted platform, QuickBase. Intuit is pitching the program as a way for VARs to diversify their revenue streams to include software as a service, considered a rapidly…