Recent Articles
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HP Changes PartnerOne Percentages, Rebates
Hewlett-Packard has announced further enhancements to elements of its PartnerOne channel program, including changes to the Growth Accelerator rebate program and increased benefits for Elite partners. The Growth Accelerator program was introduced in March 2007, and was designed to pay partners based on meeting or exceeding quarterly and yearly growth targets. The program came under…
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HP Offers $499 Mini-Laptop
Until recently, you could get a notebook for as little as $500—if you didn’t mind it weighing at least 5 pounds. Or you could get one that weighed less than 4 pounds—if you didn’t mind it costing between $1,000 and $3,000. New devices such as the Asus Eee and Everex Cloudbook tweaked this equation, with…
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Intel Partners Say Small Form Factor a Big Deal
While managed services have captured the attention of many solution providers recently, Intel’s partners attending the company’s partner summit showed more enthusiasm about small-form-factor PCs based on the company’s Atom processor than the company’s announcement of a white-label managed services offering. Intel’s channel chief Steve Dallman announced the managed services offering and talked about opportunities…
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Intel Jumps Into Managed Services Market
Intel’s new white-label managed services offering, which includes hosted Microsoft Exchange and Sharepoint, is ready for prime time, according to the company’s channel chief, and is available for partners to start offering to their end customers today. Steve Dallman, the chip giant’s vice president of sales and marketing and general manager of its worldwide reseller…
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Analysts: Size Matters in Cisco Data Center Play
Despite welcoming new networking architecture technology from Cisco, analysts wonder how many VARs will actually be affected by the announcement. Launched April 8 at the Cisco Partner Summit in Honolulu, the Nexus 5000 Series is a network connectivity consolidation switch that includes 10GB Ethernet, Fibre Channel over Ethernet, Data Center Ethernet and virtualization technology and…
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For Intel, Desktops Aren`t Dead
The death of the desktop has been greatly exaggerated, according to Intel’s Tom Rampone. Rather, Intel partners should be excited about the market opportunities for small form factor desktop computers, Intel’s vice president of channel platforms told Channel Insider, and added that they should also look to VOIP (voice over IP) and high-definition video capability.…