HP Channel Chief’s 15-Point Memo to Channel Partners

Photizo’s Managed Print Services Conference: The Secret is Solutions

Memo From Synnex CEO to VARs: Find the Courage to Change

Hp Ceo Mark Hurd: 17 Takeaways for Partners

CompTIA Breakaway Day 2: Twelve Rumors in the Hall

HP Unlocks Latest Green Energy Initiative in Time for Spring

The One SMB Managed Service That Will Never, Ever Go Away

CompTIA Annual Member Meeting: A Worthy Chicago Road Trip?

Articles from The VAR Guy

1. Memo From Synnex CEO to VARs: Find the Courage to Change Explore The VAR Guy (Oct 8 2012) Blogs Synnex (NYSE: SNX) CEO Kevin Murai described multiple challenges and opportunities facing VARs and MSPs last week during  Synnex National Conference, which attracted 1,400 attendees. The keynote covered everything from mobile opportunities (ultrabooks, tablets and Windows 8) to managed print services and cloud services. "You have to have a play in mobility and you have to have a play in cloud to address where technology is heading," said Murai, before adding later: "You have to have the courage to make change" both within your business and within your customers' business. Here's why. (Read Full Article)

   Comment Mentions:   Gartner   Microsoft   Kevin Murai

2. CompTIA Breakaway Day 2: Twelve Rumors in the Hall Explore The VAR Guy (Aug 1 2012) Blogs Amid the BYOD and cloud services waves, who is the one person VARs should hire? The VAR Guy got the answers from Verizon VP Janet Schijns, plus insights from Panasonic VP Sheila O'Neil, VMware VP Doug Smith and Cisco Systems VP Raja Sundaram this morning during a CompTIA Breakaway Channel Chiefs panel. Here's a recap plus a boatload of rumors heard in the hallways. (Read Full Article)

   Comment Mentions:   Microsoft   Panasonic   SYNNEX Corporation

3. CompTIA Annual Member Meeting: A Worthy Chicago Road Trip? Explore The VAR Guy (Apr 9 2012) The CompTIA Annual Member Meeting (AMM) kicks off this week (April 10-12) in Chicago. More than 200 CompTIA members -- resellers, VARs, MSPs, distributors, vendors -- will disappear from work and surface at the gathering. So what's on tap for this road trip? Keep a close on 10 IT communities -- everything from cloud computing to managed services, IT security and unified communications -- working within the broader CompTIA. Here's a preview. (Read Full Article)

   Comment Mentions:   CompTIA   Chicago   VAR Guy

4. Photizo’s Managed Print Services Conference: The Secret is Solutions Explore The VAR Guy (May 3 2011) Blogs There's a lot of opportunity in the MPS space, The VAR Guy is learning at the Photizo's Managed Print Conference this week in Orlando. Yet only about 20 percent of MSPs in the MSPmentor 100 (tallied by The VAR Guy's sister site MSPmentor) provide managed print services. But why? Read on for The VAR Guy's perspective ... (Read Full Article)

   Comment Mentions:   Photizo Group   Microsoft   Resource Center

5. HP Unlocks Latest Green Energy Initiative in Time for Spring Explore The VAR Guy (Mar 29 2011) Blogs , New Products , Go Green and Save The VAR Guy has been seeing the technology sector 'go green' for the better part of 10 years. HP certainly has done more than its share of green initiatives, but that's not stopping the company from resting on its laurels. Now, HP is moving forward with a bevy of new products, services and HP Labs research to help customers (and likely the channel) reduce their energy usage. Read on for The VAR Guy's quick details on the earth-hugging initiative ... (Read Full Article)

   Comment Mentions:   HP   HP Labs   Resource Center

6. HP Channel Chief’s 15-Point Memo to Channel Partners Explore The VAR Guy (Mar 28 2011) Blogs Hewlett-Packard Channel Chief Stephen DiFranco is huddling this week with 1,000 channel partners. The location: HP Americas Partner Conference in Las Vegas. DiFranco is wrapping up a keynote address now. He says HP is busy "channelizing" recent acquisitions like 3Par. But ultimately his big pitch involved a simplified HP, and emerging opportunities like WebOS and mobility. Here's a point-by-point recap. (Read Full Article)

   Comment Mentions:   HP   Resource Center   VAR Guy

7. The One SMB Managed Service That Will Never, Ever Go Away Explore The VAR Guy (Jun 25 2010) Blogs As small business IT solutions potentially shift into the cloud, some VARs and MSPs are striving to identify pieces of infrastructure (and recurring revenue opportunities) that can't float away into a rival's cloud. The idea, as ConnectWise CEO Arnie Bellini recently stated, is to find opportunities that allow you to drop anchor -- forever -- in your customers' small business offices. So, what's the most reliable IT anchor of all? Which single managed service opportunity will never go away? Hmmm... (Read Full Article)

   Comment Mentions:   HP   VAR Guy

8. Hp Ceo Mark Hurd: 17 Takeaways for Partners Explore The VAR Guy (Apr 27 2010) Blogs , Consumables At the HP Americas Partner Conference in Las Vegas, Hewlett-Packard CEO Mark Hurd kept his message simple. No big, sweeping cloud or SaaS strategy. Instead, he delivered a simple nuts-and-bolts message to partners: Let's go after profitable market share together as x86 server market trends repeat in storage and networking. Here are 17 highlights from Hurd's keynote. (Read Full Article)

   Comment Mentions:   HP   Asia   Mark Hurd

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