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The 25 Most Innovative Executives
Of 2009
Our list of the most innovative executives of the year spotlights the people that are pushing the envelope with new products and channel programs to bring solution providers to new heights.
Services Help Push HP Q4 Profit Up 14 Percent
Services and financial services did well in HP's fourth fiscal quarter, but the company was dragged down by hardware and software sales. Next year, however, the company should see a rebound, HP said.
10 Tech Turkeys For 2009
Most everyone loves Thanksgiving turkeys. But IT industry turkeys? Not so much. We look at 10 examples of 'turkeys' that have disappointed the tech industry this year.
Scenes From TechSelect, Disney Style
More than 280 VARs helped Tech Data celebrate the 10th anniversary of TechSelect at Walt Disney World Nov. 12-14. Solution providers got business advice from Tech Data and Disney executives, including Mickey mouse himself.
REVIEWS
We like the code name "Karmic Koala" but how does Ubuntu 9.10 measure up to Windows 7?
Company's latest media player is the first we've seen that plays almost every type of format.
Iomega recently released a new NAS device that is a pleasure to use -- if you can get past a few caveats.
Company's new Conserve Surge with Timer, the first in a line that will focus on ways for IT and facility departments to help manage electric usage.
Micosoft Office Web Apps inevitably will be compared to Google Docs. The CRN Test Center finds some advantages and disadvantages in choosing Office Web Apps over Google Docs.
Lexmark recently reworked its entire inkjet printer line. The CRN Test Center takes a look at the Prestige, one of the new Professional class models.
BLOGS
Xangati's Application Management 2.0 is geared toward service providers and enterprise-level IT managers ready to use streaming, collaboration and user-generated content as a tool to manage service levels.
How to prosper from the cloud computing revolution dominated the discussion at Everything Channel's Tech Innovator's 2009 in Las Vegas this week.
Zlago offers hosted desktop services for small businesses, complete with e-mail, security and storage, which VARs can private-label to their customers.
LogLogic takes complex log data and turns it into something manageable.
The Axxana Phoenix System helps organizations achieve zero-data-loss disaster recovery without distance limits in a cost-effective manner when compared with traditional mirroring.
Small business backups are tough, but 3X Systems enables solution providers to build a mini storage cloud with a new backup appliance that keeps up with mobile and desktop PCs.
Xobni fills the gaps in Microsoft Outlook with more efficient organization of contact information, building profiles that allow users to quickly find the people with whom they're trying to connect.
MOST READ
Find out which executives made the grade and held their own, despite the great IT downturn of 2009.
Our list of the most innovative executives of the year spotlights the people that are pushing the envelope with new products and channel programs to bring solution providers to new heights.
Most everyone loves Thanksgiving turkeys. But IT industry turkeys? Not so much. We look at 10 examples of 'turkeys' that have disappointed the tech industry this year.
Researchers publish exploit code for a critical CSS vulnerability in Microsoft IE 6 and 7 that enables hackers to launch malicious attacks on users' PCs.
Windows 7 is still bathed in the afterglow of its launch last month, but already details are emerging about its successor, Windows 8.
Links with on-premise software and extensive data management capabilities give the cloud computing platform an edge.
Hackers posted e-mails and documents onto an anonymous FTP server in Russia, as well as a link to the 61-MB file on the blog Air Vent, accompanied by a note that read, "We feel that climate science is, in the current situation, too important to be kept under wraps.