While PC sales are expected to climb 17 percent, AIOs,ultrabooks netbooks and the wait for Windows 8 are some of the new trends capturing customer and partner fancy.. more »

Subhodeep Bhattacharyas last assignment was as Director, HP Networking.. more »

The company has offered firmware upgrades on 16 switches; this will allow existing users to upgrade free of cost to the new manageability features around OpenFlow.. more »

Info-Tech Research Group lists Avaya, Cisco, Microsoft, Siemens Enterprise Communications and IBM as the champions of the unified communications market that will be driven by rising BYOD initiatives.. more »

Virender Aggarwal has worked as President, HCL Technologies and as Head, Emerging Markets and Senior VP and Director, Head, APAC, MEIA, Satyam Computer Services'.. more »

Attending a recent annual day of a partner organization was an enthralling experience that gave me a 360-degree view of the IT channels contribution in growing the customer business.. more »

The size of the market is massive, and the rationale of AMS is hard to argue with, yet the ground experience for many partners has been less than satisfactory. CRN looks at how a few partners are successfully leveraging the opportunity.. more »

Vishal Dhupar, Managing Director, nVIDIA India, talks about the companys GTM and explains why a dedicated GPU is important for a better PC experience even if you are not into gaming.. more »

The deployment will enable the SI to deliver more value to SMB and enterprise clients, and reduce operating expenses through remote support services via its managed services operation center.. more »

The McAfee network security platform includes granular multi-tenancy options that are purpose built for service provider environments. SPs can create up to 1000 virtual IPS policies per appliance, with granular policy control and rule-set capability.. more »

Partners will be able to manage licenses, renewals, license consolidation and support status on one platform.. more »

At one point of time Duckback Information Systems had actually downed shutters. But Asis Chaudhuri, now its CEO, revived the company and transformed it into one of the leading VARs in east India.. more »

The vendor, which had been reticent about its hardware strategy so far, said that tier-2 partners are now central to its plans, and is looking for new partners in Class B cities.. more »

Computers and Media Dealers Association—Pune has introduced trade guidelines to address partner concerns against credit policies, warranty policies and default payments.. more »

Lenovo has unveiled a series of new ThinkCentre desktops and all-in-ones, including the new tiny M92p, which the PC maker said measures the width of a golf ball.. more »

NetApp and Cisco recently announced plans to extend FlexPod with a series of pre-validated design architectures priced and sized for smaller workloads. Manu Bansal, Vice President, Advanced Technology Channels, Cisco in an interview with CRN explains the move.. more »

Colette LaForce will take the new role from her current position as Global Vice President and Chief Marketing Officer, Dell Services business unit.. more »

The Indian ERP market is currently estimated to be worth Rs 40,000 crore and is expected to grow at a CAGR of 25 percent in the next 3-4 years.. more »

The company expects 11 existing partners to close at least two deals in the next six months and will engage 11-12 more partners in tier-1 cities by 2012-end.. more »

Besides adding security gateways, the additions allow to automatically enforce security and access policies across wired, wireless and mobile devices.. more »