Pedro Pereira

Distributor Ingram Micro Inc. said Monday it is laying off 550 employees and outsourcing most of those positions overseas in a move to increase operating efficiencies and consolidate some business functions. The Santa Ana, Calif., company, the worlds largest IT distributor, released a statement that predicts the moves will produce savings of $10 million this […]

Dell has pulled the plug on a program to sell unbranded desktop PCs through channel partners. The company said customers prefer to buy the Dell brand. But channel sources interviewed by The Channel Insider said Dell Inc. had trouble signing up VARs for the program, which kicked off in August 2002, because they dont trust […]

Microsoft Corp. is developing a channel program targeting some of the smallest companies in the SMB (small and midsize business) space. The vendor is not going into the details of the program at this point, but a spokeswoman said an announcement is planned for Microsofts Worldwide Partner Conference in July in Minneapolis. The program will […]

Each year tens of thousands of college-educated workers from outside the United States receive temporary work visas for skilled jobs that ostensibly would go unfilled by Americans. Holders of so-called H-1B visas gain entry into the United States for temporary assignments in “specialty occupations,” many of them in IT. Their U.S. employers pay a fee […]

Distributor Tech Data is expanding the products it offers for point-of-sale and product data capture under a newly inked deal with Intermec Technologies, a manufacturer of asset-management and data-collection solutions. Clearwater, Fla.-based Tech Data Corp. launched a POS (point-of-sale) business unit two years ago, and built it up by adding POS product lines from 12 […]