Cover Story

Digital Signs Point To The Channel
A rising number of VARs are mulling the digital signage market, where declining display costs and off-the-shelf software are lowering the barriers to entry and a bounty of services opportunities promise healthy margins and recurring revenue.

>> Slide Show: Key Players In Digital Signage Software
>> Starting Out In Digital Signage
>> Selling Digital Signage Solutions
>> Serving Up Digital Signage Services
>> 6 Key Players: Digital Signage Software

Bake-Off

3 Network Access Control Apps Put To The Test
Network access control has become a linchpin of IT security, but which products offer good potential for VARs? The CRN Test Center tried out three software products that can help accelerate a solution provider’s entry into the NAC market.

>> Slide Show: 3 NAC Suites Rated

Solutions That Work

Taking Hosted VoIP To The Next Level
Many small-business VARs may never have had access to phone revenue because they lacked PBX solutions experience. But the game is changing with hosted VoIP services, which play to the channel’s network integration and management strengths.

Reviews

HP Makes SMB Storage An All-In-One Affair
Hewlett-Packard's StorageWorks All-in-One Storage System, earmarked for SMBs and branch offices, makes it easy for solution providers to get into disk-based network storage without having much storage expertise.

A Virtual Solution To Spam
Proofpoint aims to give VARs a new way to fight spam with its Messaging Security Gateway Virtual Edition product, which combines the strengths of software-based antispam solutions with the ease of use associated with an appliance by using virtual technology.

Move .Net Apps To Linux
With version 1.2, the Mono .Net project expanded its Microsoft API stack so Windows developers can port .Net applications to Linux without changing a single line of code.

Out-Of-The-Box Power
Tripp Lite’s SmartOnline Hot Swappable Modular UPS System provides instant power transfer in the event of a blackout and can correct fluctuations by adjusting the power supply during brownouts and surges.

Columnists

Frankly Speaking: Seeing Is Believing
At CRNtech Live
Emerging technologies are always exciting, but how can VARs look past the hype and identify the ones that will redefine solutions? I got a taste of that at last month's CRNtech Live event in New York.

Channel Perspectives: Telephony Bits & Big Hair Issues
There's a lot of confusion in the IP telephony market, right down to the big-hair issues, and learning to be bilingual isn’t easy. But that also means there's plenty of opportunity, says Harry Brelsford of solution provider SMB Nation.

Editor's Letter: Searching For The Digital Signage Market

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