A Live opportunity for the channel?
Microsoft will begin experimenting next year with delivering subscription-based services. VARs need more detail if they’re to be ready
Autodesk eyes Wintel computing
Autodesk has been secretly working with Intel and Microsoft to transition its software to multi-core and 64-bit computing said its chief operating officer Carl Bass at the company’s University user conference.
Tech Data Canada forms new business unit
Tech Data Canada has created a new storage and server business unit to help its reseller network build practices around advanced technologies.
Big Blue’s VAR czar
Running one of the biggest channels in IT means trying to mix and match regional strategies to ensure success worldwide. The man on the spot is trying to build a ecosystem to smooth the process
The Top 25 Newsmakers of 2005 – Ranking 17 – 25
Bruno Pupo, Dave Frederickson, Jim Estill, Terry Walsh, Stuart Turk, Ian MacFarlane, Shawn Snobelen, Edsel Shreve, The Dealmakers
The Top 25 Newsmakers of 2005 – Ranking 10 – 16
Number 10Doug Wright: CEO, Alberta Recycling Management Authority The manager of the country’s first electronic recycling prgram…
The Top 25 Newsmakers 0f 2005 – Kevin Murai, Robert Courteau, Michael Murphy
Number 7Kevin Murai: Ingram Micro President & COO Kevin Murai has been one Canadian who has seen…
The Top 25 Newsmakers of 2005
Canada’s leading executives and one news trend that made the most impact on the IT Channel
A pleasant surprise
Tablet PCs are still a young species which have a way to go in gaining corporate acceptance. But the five units we tested offered good performance
The turn-around man
After many troubling years, SGI is finding some real success with open source and the channel
A versatile labeller from Dymo
Desktop label-maker is fun and intelligent way to slap a tag on almost anything
A colourful green printer for the office
Kyocera’s Ecosys FS-C5020N printer may be small, but it proved to be a high-quality desktop-sized workhorse
Maxtor drives into enterprise
Maxtor Corp. is shipping its next-generation SATA II and ATA/133 MaXLine, QuickView and DiamondMax hard drives targeted at enterprise, consumer and desktop marketplaces.
Pimped PCs
The MTV generation’s version of custom system building is fast becoming a trend that manufacturers are noticing
Sun shoots for Galaxy
AMD Opteron-based machines gets some big channel support from EDS Canada, but an industry analyst raises issues of backward compatibily with 32- and 64-bit systems