Jessica Davis

ViewSonic has added to its VA series of LCD monitors, the company announced the week of June 25 at the National Education Computing Conference in Atlanta. The new displays include the 19-inch VA916, a traditional 4:3 display, and the 17-inch VA1716w and 19-inch VA1916w, both widescreen displays that offer panoramic viewing for multiple documents and […]

Nimsoft has taken advantage of new application programming interfaces from VMWare, enhancing its monitoring support for the virtualization vendors software. The new APIs from VMWare, available in the most recent release of the software, allow administrators to extract more information than previously about the health of the software and applications, said Ken Vanderweel, marketing director […]

VARs that work together make more money. Thats according to a new survey of members of the International Association of Microsoft Certified Partners, conducted by market research firm IDC that looked at partner-to-partner collaborations and found a key trend among VARs growing revenue—they collaborate. “Theres a whole body of research around network theory, and Metcalfes […]

Ingram Micro signed a $96 million deal to acquire part of DBL Distributing Inc., a U.S. consumer electronics distributor. The IT technology distribution giant said the acquisition marked another step forward in its consumer electronics strategy and another sign the space between consumer and commercial technologies is thinning. “This strategy positions Ingram Micro at the […]

Ingram Micro is extending what has been its Canadian-only outlet program—selling refurbished and discontinued products—to solution providers and other channels in the United States. The company announced the program June 12, saying it meets a significant demand in the marketplace for end-of-life technology. “Technology is moving so fast today that yesterdays hot technology is quickly […]

Tech Data will expand its solutions for secure, local and remote software application access with the addition of Ericom Software technologies to its line card. The distributor, based in Clearwater, Fla., said it will now offer Ericoms PowerTerm WebConnect software solutions. “While reliable remote access to software applications provides clear productivity gains for any business […]

Looking to bring appliance-enabled software services to smaller companies, Jumpnode Systems has created a reseller program and also began signing MSPs to use its appliance for monitoring and remote management. The three-year-old Minneapolis-based company, which only began shipping the appliance two years ago, launched the partner program at the end of April and has already […]

Microsoft, according to published reports, has added e-mail, Sharepoint and desktop management to its 2-year-old managed services line that it offers directly to enterprise customers. But independent MSPs (managed services providers) and other partners are taking a measured approach to the news. The Microsoft business has a scant four customers, with three of those announced […]

Catering to its Apple-centric resellers and end users, Tech Data announced it will serve as the first distributor for GizMac Accessories XRackPro line of rack-mount enclosure cabinets for Apple Xserve servers and RAID storage devices. Tech Data said the solutions are designed to reduce noise by as much as 80 percent compared with standard server […]

More than 85 percent of organizations in a recent study reported they had experienced a data-breach event—a statistic that represents great pain for businesses that are victims of such breaches, many of which could have been avoided. But the study also points to the tremendous opportunity for VARs to act as security experts in a […]

The chatter has been rampant: Will CDWs pending acquisition by a private equity firm put an end to the companys recent very aggressive pricing? Analysts have answered with a resounding no. “Some VARs have been speculating that this could take the price pressure off,” said Christina Richmond, research manager for hardware channels and alliances at […]

CDWs Chairman and CEO John Edwardson described a meeting of the minds between his companys management and the private investment firm that has agreed to acquire it in a deal struck May 29 worth $7.3 billion. Edwardson said that CDWs management and private equity firm Madison Dearborn Partners had a consensus over CDWs long-term goals […]