Check out these hot products that keep workers connected, wherever they are.
Solution providers and vendors met up at this year's XChange Government Integrator '08 conference in Washington, D.C. this year to honor the companies that prove that they understand the IT requirements of the public sector.
ChannelWeb picked 15 common beliefs about Microsoft and gave channel partners the opportunity to explain why they're more fiction than fact.
Inside This Issue: May 12, 2008
Cover Story
Xen Master
Citrix and CEO Mark Templeton are riding a wave of virtualization success, and Citrix's 24,000-plus VARs are acontented lot. Time to find out what the next move is.
>> Share And Share Alike?
Starting Line
The Other SaaS
If you're wading into managed services waters for the first time, a Storage-as-a-Service model might be your new best friend.
Changing Face Of IBM
Retirements and reshuffling have left IBM's channel management a little different, but top VARs, that might not be a bad thing.
Forsythe's Five-Year Fistful
The VARBiz 500 Leaders In 1Q
Grand WLAN Plan
Overland Returns
HTC In 3G
30 Years Of Spam
Around The Horn At Interop '08
Fast Growth
Cutting Edge Of Security
Perimeter eSecurity prefers the bird's eye view of security solutions--that you need to attack a wide variety of problems at once..
Market Focus: SMB Printing/Imaging
Growing Gains
Oki Data recently left large-format retail behind, and with its one-year-old ProfitOps program, it's re-ignited its channel presence.
Tech Focus
Going Mobile
RIM's new BlackBerry Professional software has just about everything an SMB workforce needs for mobility. If only deploying certain features wasn't so time consuming, says the CRN Test Center..
>> Predictably Phenom-enal
>> Tale Of A Too-Hot Test Drive
ShadowRAM: May 12, 2008
Neil Young Rocks Java One; The Yankee Clipper; Seen And Heard.
These articles were mentioned in this issue of CRN.
• Review; Vista-intosh: VMware Gone Phishing
• Review: Microsoft's Windows Server 2008
• First Look: Citrix XenServer 4.1 Beta
• Review: BlackBerry Professional Software
• Review: AMD's Phenom Quad-Core 'Black Edition'
• Debunking 15 Myths About Microsoft
• Dell Readies Channel Road Show
• The Other SaaS: Online Backup Comes Of Age
• Users Fuming Over Vista Audio Driver Glitch
• 2008 Channel Champions
• Video: SonicWall On Enterprise Strategy
• Slide Show: 25 Somewhat Sinful Scenes From Interop Las Vegas
• Slide Show: Technology And Strategies Of Zenith Infotech And Other Vendors That Offer Online Backup Services.
COLUMNISTS
Robert C. DeMarzo:
Channel Centric
Why The Government Just Might Save You
Selling to any government sector is an acquired tase. You cannot do it on a whim.
Robert Faletra:
On TheRecord
Which Preseidential Candidate Would Be Best For High-Tech?
There's really only one problem that must be addressed if the U.S. is to hold onto its dominance of high-tech--the H1b Vista debate.
Steven Burke:
The Final Cut
Grow Or Die Hard
There is a seimic shift in the marketplace that Everything Channel has classified into one of three buckets: lifestyle business, moderate growth amd hypergrowth.
Larry Hooper:
Under The Radar
The Mac At Work?
With the amazing growth of Apple's iPhone, the world is beginning to wonder if Apple can make headway in the business space.
