SLIDE SHOWS

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.

SMALL BUSINESS

Greg Davis, vice president and general manager, global commercial channels, and Paul Shaffer, director of U.S. marketing and operations for Dell's global commercial channels, said the company is exceeding goals with enterprise-focused solution providers and expects SMB revenue through the channel to pick up.

[04:10 PM, November 20, 2009]

Zlago offers hosted desktop services for small businesses, complete with e-mail, security and storage, which VARs can private-label to their customers.

[02:30 PM, November 20, 2009]

Synnex conducts a realtime poll of solution provider members at its Varnex conference. Here's a look at the questions, along with the percentage of the audience selecting each answer, followed by comments from some vendors.

[12:20 PM, November 20, 2009]

Tech Data senior executives sat down to talk about the direction of the economy, the availability of small-business credit, and what Dell-Perot Systems and Xerox-ACS deals might mean for the channel.

[02:38 PM, November 16, 2009]

New desktops, thin clients, servers, storage and printing tools are aimed at what Hewlett-Packard believes is a $55 billion market for the HP portfolio in the U.S.

[08:19 PM, November 09, 2009]

Fishbowl is looking for some proven solution providers to bring its inventory control software for Intuit's QuickBooks into the midmarket.

[01:00 PM, November 09, 2009]

Jesubi positions its eponymous sales force automation applications as more effective and simpler to use than such competitors as Salesforce.com and Sage SalesLogix.

[11:30 AM, November 03, 2009]

SpamTitan offers comprehensive e-mail security, protecting against phishing attacks, viruses, malware and, yes, spam too.

[02:00 PM, November 02, 2009]

Kace says its new lineup of KBox appliances eases the jump from Microsoft Windows XP to Windows 7.

[01:00 AM, November 02, 2009]

Sales to public sector clients continued to flourish for PC Connection in the quarter. Revenue in that segment increased by 9.3 percent to $116.6 million thanks to solid federal contract sales and strong gains in the K-12 education market, according to the company.

[10:04 AM, October 29, 2009]

In the third quarter, OnForce tracked a 2 percent decrease in break-fix work, possibly due to the bump in new equipment opportunities. Break/fix services opportunities had been a bright spot for VARs during the last few quarters after hardware sales declined due to the recession.

[12:01 AM, October 21, 2009]

IBM CFO Mark Loughridge said during the company's third-quarter earnings call that credit markets have improved compared to last year.

[06:18 PM, October 15, 2009]