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High notebook shipment offset by low desktop PC revenue, says NPD

High notebook shipment contrasted by low desktop PC revenue, and the semiconductor shortage will last for at least another six months.

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High notebook shipment offset by low desktop PC revenue, says NPD

High notebook shipment contrasted by low desktop PC revenue, and the semiconductor shortage will last for at least another six months.

Cisco launches Cisco Plus as-a-service portfolio

Cisco Canada president on strategy and company’s new Office of the CTO

Cisco Canada’s new president, Shannon Leininger, took advantage of her first media and analyst roundtable to run through Cisco’s overall strategy and to introduce the new Office of the CTO.

Synnex to combine with Tech Data to create $57B distribution giant

Distributor giants Synnex and Tech Data have joined forces to create an even bigger beast valued at roughly $57 billion.

Backups by default with no extra cost could be the standard, says OVHcloud founder

After an unexplained fire destroyed one of its data centres in Strasbourg, France last week, hosting provider OVHcloud’s founder says it’s time to shake up how backup services are delivered.

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Channel Strategy News

Toshiba notebook protects itself with faces

Face Recognition software attempts to replace passwords and uncertain finger swipes

How do you decide between online friends and

Plus, Microsoft urges more people in IT and the sales process for channel partners

Don’t Take it Personally!

How to accept – and benefit from – criticism

Vancouver reseller BlueCurl transitions to green IT provider

Originally formed to sell VoIP solutions, this Vancouver solution provider ended-up becoming a green innovator

Yahoo postpones board meeting, director resigns

Actions seen as related to the fallout from Microsoft’s failed bid and Carl Ichan’s takeover attempt

TechData records strong revenue, income increases

The distributor’s Q1 results show eight per cent sales growth in the Americas

Speed is of essence for next-generation Symantec products

The security vendor wants to sharply cut instillation, load and run times

World Police & Fire Games get unified

Microsoft and Telus National Systems offer a unified communications solution to World Police & Fire Games

The power of Canadian IT centres

Plus, a new virtual world-type browser and Nokia and Linux

Help desk software vendor hopes to discover more Canadian partners

Alloy Software to entice resellers to its new Discovery network inventory management suite with big margins

New happenings in network virtualization

This could give you a heads-up before your phone starts ringing with irate end users

Gaining better visibility into the data centre

A new mapping tool from EMC gives customers a better view into their data centres, be they physical or virtualized

New Novell Americas channel chief takes action

Katie McAuliff first order of business was to increase margins by 15 per cent

New IBM Canada channel boss focuses on Americas alignment

Shannon O’Connor aims at building sustainable partner growth in Canada

Lenovo sales rise 17 per cent on strong global PC demand

Demand in China and laptop sales fuel the PC maker’s growth

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