As if they needed more stress, organizations are facing evolving and increasingly stringent compliance regulations from the Payment Card Industry, as well as Sarbanes-Oxley, HIPAA and others. Here are a few security compliance products that can make the audit process less excruciating.
Here are 10 of the distributor's hottest new offerings winning over solution providers.
New smartphones from Sony, Motorola and the first-ever Twitter-only mobile device -- the TwitterPeek -- headline a busy week for handset makers as the holiday shopping season heats up.
Inside This Issue: July 16, 2007
Cover Story
Oracle's Big SMB Stand
In a push to expand sales of its SMB technology product line, Oracle is looking to recruit a new class of reseller--no signature required.
>> Putting The Pieces In Place
CMP Channel Senior Editor Rick Whiting spoke with Oracle President Charles Phillips about Oracle's new SMB intitative.
News Analysis
In It To Win
Hewlett-Packard is banking on a new product lienup, new management and new channel program to spur slumping storage sales.
SaaS: It's Here To Stay
Microsoft is playing up its "software plus services" vision in the form of the hosted, on-demand CRM Live. The vendor's message to partners is clear: SaaS is here, so get your solution provider practice ready.
Market Focus: Midmarket
A New Direction
Distributors are launching programs and solutions to help partners get their hands on higher-end server and storage technologies.
Specialist Focus: Home Integration
It Ain't Over Yet
CRN sits down with channel executives and picks their brains on the direction of digital convergence. Verdict? It ain't over just yet.
Tech Focus
A Twist On Storage
Anticipated changes in the ways customers store and access data is steering SAN vendors and VARs toward new opportunities.
Liquid Cooling System Is Cumbersome
PCs need high wattage thermal electric cooling systems to achieve clock speeds, one solution is the CoolIT Systems' Eliminator.
Hitachi Offers License To Drive Faster
With the new Travelstar 7K200 hard drive from Hitachi Global Storage Technologies, system builders now can build laptops that can handle data-laden activities.
ShadowRAM: Rumors, Truth & Innuendo
AMD's investing in Transmeta. but it's unclear on much money it is investing in basic blocking and tackling. Last week, Circuit City tapped Bruce Besanko as its new CFO.
These articles were mentioned in this issue of CRN.
• Oracle Launches Database 11g
• Microsoft To Raise Its Voice
• Dell Takes First Steps Toward Channel Expansion...
• ...But HP's Channel Chief Isn't About To Lose Any Sleep
• Cisco Changes Specialist Rules
• Google's Postini Purchase Raises Channel Questions
• Déjà Vu: CompuCom Sold to Private Equity Firm
• It's In The Bag: Targus Enhances Channel Program
COLUMNISTS
Robert Faletra: Larry Hooper:
Steven Burke:
Robert C. DeMarzo:
Channel Centric
ViewSonic: Quite The Financial Display
ViewSonic has an opportunity to use the IPO proceeds to distance itself from main competitors NEC and Samsung, among others.
On The Record
Take These Five Steps To Faster Growth
Step three is to do something many solution providers still donŐt act on, and that is to build and deploy a marketing program.
Under The Radar
No Mobile Channel?
All the hype around the iPhone, got me thinking about the smart phone space and lack of real channel players in what is sure to become the next important computing platform.
The Final Cut
CDW's High Price Tag
Did Madison Dearborn Partners pay too high a price for CDW? That's the question the private equity kingpin should ask itself in the wake of last week's sale of CompuCom Systems.
