Jessica Davis

Seeming to defy the recession, Tech Data’s (NASDAQ:TECD) net income soared 49 percent year over year in the distributor’s first fiscal quarter. But the company did that on revenues that declined 17 percent year over year.That’s because not all revenue is good revenue, Tech Data CEO Bob Dutkowsky tells Channel Insider. Dutkowsky says that Tech […]

While consumers may be the ones buying the iPod, iPhone and Apple computers, many businesses have become more open to integrating these devices into their IT environments, and that spells opportunity for resellers.That’s why IT distributor Tech Data is launching an Apple Lab to help its reseller channel partners and their end customers to get […]

With close to 12 million subscribers to the online game “World of Warcraft,” there are plenty of users out there clamoring for top-performing gaming computers that don’t fall victim to excessive network latency.Enter Bigfoot Networks. This 3-year-old company wants to do for online gaming what graphics card makers such as Nvidia and ATI (now a […]

Acer may have passed Dell in netbook shipments in Q1, but supply chain checks indicate the PC maker is pulling back on manufacturing orders with ODMs.That could spell troubling news for netbooks in Q2. Already an IDC report earlier this week indicated that the computer processors behind netbooks — Intel Atom — saw shipments drop […]

Fujitsu claims that reseller channel partners who are looking for an edge in today’s server and data center market may find a happier home with Fujitsu than with its larger rivals in the server space-Hewlett-Packard, IBM and Dell. Fujitsu, No. 4 in the global server space, is going up against its competitors with an integrated […]

After more than a year of declines, direct market reseller CDW’s bimonthly survey of IT leaders is now showing signs that the worst of the recession may be over.The most recent CDW IT Monitor survey shows that an increasing number of IT decision makers from small and midsize businesses-29 percent-anticipate making investments in IT over […]

Synnex resellers now have another unified communications solution available to them.IT distributor Synnex will now offer the complete product line of Siemens Enterprise Communications, including end-to-end solutions for voice, data, video and security, the companies announced today.The announcement comes a few weeks after Siemens signed on with Synnex in an effort to jump-start its fledgling […]

Dell’s April 17 lawsuit filed in New York district court accuses TigerDirect of violations of its resale contract including trademark infringement, misleading representation, unfair competition and false advertising. >> Click here to read the full report

Avnet’s Chief Operating Officer Rick Hamada believes the impact of Oracle’s (NASDAQ:ORCL) acquisition of Sun Microsystems (NASDAQ:JAVA) will likely have a further positive effect on Avnet going forward, but that Avnet would be conservative in its forecasts along those lines. Sun makes up about 8 percent of Avnet’s enterprise revenues, and Sun is Avnet’s number […]

Microsoft is rolling out a series of “Services Ready” offerings to its top services reseller channel partners to help them get up to speed quickly on technologies such as virtualization, unified communications and desktop deployment.The new services, unveiled yesterday, will cost, however. Partners will spend $20,000 per technology services offering. But Microsoft contends the investment […]

Computer hardware resellers looking for chipmakers to signal an end to their slumping sales will have to just keep looking.Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) CEO Dirk Meyer dashed the hopes that Intel had raised last week saying that there’s no way that the computer hardware business had hit bottom yet. AMD, like its larger rival Intel, […]

While Oracle’s acquisition of Sun my have surprised a lot of people, the instant it was announced it made immediate sense to many. Oracle’s and Sun’s technologies and other strengths are complementary, not competitive, with each other. Database and applications get an operating system and hardware. The deal combines Oracle’s sales-led organization with Sun’s engineering […]