The digital world will punch the channel in the mouth
Author of the New Normal paints a challenging picture for solution providers who are slow to transition to the digital world
Cisco creates joint marketing fund for solution providers
New Cisco channel marketing chief Amanda Jobbins outlines plan for partners
Former Avaya global channel chief moves to Westcon
Jeremy Butt left the vendor in January and will now take over Westcon’s EMEA operations
RSA head calls for a change in direction
RSA CONFERENCE: Art Coviello urges the security industry to stop neglecting analytics and wasting money on obsolete controls
Tech Data blames flat results on Brazil, Colombia closing
Plus, updates on job cuts at IBM and Apple snags another patent
Microsoft’s Azure cloud suffers serious outage
The cloud platform’s service management function goes down
iPad 3: Apple sends official invites to March 7 event
And it will be in San Francisco, not New York
Toshiba claims ‘world’s thinnest’ tablet with Excite LE
Toshiba says its tablet is thinner than the iPad 2 and the Galaxy Tab 2
HP cuts staff as webOS transitions to open-source
HP plans to release the entire operating system to the open-source community by September
Hard-drive shortage hits servers in Q4, Gartner says
Shortage in supply in hard drive will slow down server shipments in the first quarter of this year
Hardware and software together means more cash for partners
IBM also launched several initiatives to help partners go deeper into cloud computing