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Peak UpTime's acquisition of ConXts lets it expand to the K-12 market and opens new government sales possibilities.

May 16, 2008

The company says servers will help enable resellers to deliver the high-end storage and processing capabilities of blade servers to a wider range of users.

February 15, 2008

Network access control technology was the darling of the security industry in 2006, as vendors spent much of their time squawking about how their NAC offerings could do just about everything but cure cancer. Yet now that the hype around NAC has quieted, a clearer picture is emerging about what the technology means for the channel.

July 23, 2007

Oracle is making a push to expand sales of its database software and other products to small businesses, but it won't work directly with solution providers to do it. And that, according to Oracle's thinking, is a good thing for solution providers.

July 16, 2007

As millions of baby boomers gleefully head into retirement in the coming years, the ability to recruit and retain younger workers from Generation Y--the largest generation since the boomers--will become critical.

July 05, 2007

US itek lives in a world of declining PC sales. Yet business has never been better for the Buffalo, N.Y., solution provider and system builder, whose early foray into managed services is paying off handsomely.

June 25, 2007

A big contract with a local airline helped Fred Babaee turn his fledgling consulting company into the $22 million components distributor and custom-system builder it is today.

June 25, 2007

Server consolidation presented an opportunity to ACMA Computers last year, and the Fremont, Calif.-based company ran with it.

June 25, 2007

Not many custom system builders can say they competed with Michael Dell back when Dell was still building his systems in his college dorm room. As Datel Systems President Larry Piland likes to put it: "He went direct; we went retail, and the rest is history."

June 25, 2007

The Test Center looks at four middle-of-the-road network-attached storage products. The winner is Zyxel's NAS-2400.

June 15, 2007

K-12 trails higher ed in level of IT implementation, but watch for more opportunity as districts strive to catch up.

May 28, 2007

System builders say they're well-positioned vs. tier-one competitors in the education space.

May 07, 2007

From the largest systems integrators to the smallest businesses, GovernmentVAR recognized 13 solution providers for their contributions toward ensuring that all levels of government and education have access to the latest and greatest IT solutions.

April 27, 2007

High-tech entrepreneur Stephen Dukker, founder of eMachines, is avidly courting VARs and educational resellers for his latest venture, nComputing, which makes low-cost multiuser access terminals.

April 16, 2007

Stephen Dukker, chairman and CEO of nComputing, is hoping to reach one of the most elusive markets in hardware: those who still haven't invested in a PC because of the cost.

April 06, 2007

When it came time for Babson College to upgrade its SAN, it called in its solution provider, Expert Server Group, to help evaluate products and virtualize the storage environment.

January 22, 2007

The 2007 Verizon Solution Provider Program (VSPP) contract being offered to a select group of legacy MCI agents met organized opposition last week.

December 04, 2006

Hewlett-Packard's 2007 Technology for Teaching Grant initiative gives extra consideration to schools that focus on environmental engineering and 'green' product design.

November 27, 2006

Microsoft and Novell have announced a historic pact that seeks to bridge the technical, legal and financial divide that separates the Windows and SUSE Linux worlds.

November 06, 2006

Hewlett-Packard overshot rival Dell to reclaim the No. 1 position in worldwide PC market share during the third quarter, according to two research firms.

October 23, 2006

The survey says: 'while higher education IT directors recognize IT security as a major priority, they are stretched thin for the vital resources.'

October 10, 2006

FusionStorm, Sun Microsystems' largest West Coast solution provider and one of the largest U.S. VARs, has acquired Jeskell, IBM's biggest government solution provider, creating a $400 million channel powerhouse.

October 05, 2006

This year is a building year for integrated security vendor iPolicy Networks—at least as far as its channel strategy goes.

September 25, 2006

Hewlett-Packard's ProCurve Networking by HP division is preparing to launch a new channel program that promises to provide more flexibility in the way solution providers work with the company.

September 25, 2006

When Bright Horizons Family Solutions wanted to beef up its intranet, it turned to Whitbread Technology Partners for its expertise in Oracle middleware implementations.

September 15, 2006

Find more Education articles in our Government archive.

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