Jessica Davis

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 […]

Dell today announced a managed services solution designed for small business and medium business and available today across the United States. The nationwide roll-out is the next step in Dell’s direct managed services strategy which began as a trial in the Dallas and the New York area.Like when it introduced those trials, Dell says the […]

That’s because Intel’s Q1 earnings will be the first in a new round of earnings reports from technology companies. Plus, Intel’s processors are one of the building blocks used by many manufacturers make PCs and servers and storage devices. That means Intel feels the movement of the economy before other technology manufacturers do. And a […]

A new survey of more than 1,100 IT professionals shows that 83 percent of enterprise customers will be putting off adoption of Microsoft’s successor to its Vista operating system for yet another year. And while it’s certainly not uncommon for enterprises to delay the migration to a new operating system to avoid the inevitable buggy […]

According to the Channel Insider 2009 Market Pulse Report, end users are cutting back or delaying purchases of networking and computer gear. End users are demanding lower prices for the IT goods they buy. And it’s sales cycles are getting longer, too. Making the sale is just plain tough. Here are five sure-fire tips for […]

Cisco plans to acquire privately-held Tidal Software, a maker of application management and automation software, paying about $105 million in cash plus retention-based incentives.Cisco says that the acquisition will create significant opportunities for both Cisco and its partners through the delivery of partner-led services that leverage Cisco’s application management capabilities. Although privately-held, Tidal Software says […]

Analysts and solution provider resellers have identified health care as one of the vertical industries that is experiencing growth during the recession. Health care will also be a major benefactor of the economic stimulus package, and many solution providers and resellers plan to target that vertical as the health care stimulus funds are distributed. Specifically, […]