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The Top 25 Channel Sales Leaders
Of 2009
CRN's channel sales leaders fought to provide partners with the tools and support to battle the biggest industry downturn in the history of IT. These are the executives who went the distance for solution providers.
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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
Trust Digital offers mobile enterprise management software that covers the full smartphone market, including Apple iPhone.
Solution providers can move customers toward a paperless office with a software suite that is quick to search and retrieve information.
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.
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CRN's Top 25 Channel Sales Leaders of 2009 fought hard to provide their solution provider partners with the tools and support they need to battle the biggest industry downturn in the history of IT. These are the executives who went the distance for solution providers in 2009.
Best Buy has announced a new $197 laptop from HP, which will go on sale this week as part of the retailer's Black Friday sale.
Find out which executives made the grade and held their own, despite the great IT downturn of 2009.
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