CRN Components and Peripherals News for VARs and Technology Integrators

Review: Samsung's CLP-610ND Color Printer

Samsung is seeking to expand its channel footprint in the color laser printer segment, and the Test Center looks at its CLP-610ND offering in that space.
APC Wants to Show Partners The Money

APC will help solution providers by evaluating their core businesses, areas of expertise and future ambitions to structure marketing and sales support programs to meet their needs
Review Roundup: Displays from NEC, Samsung and ViewSonic

LCD manufacturers continue to expand their product portfolios, as the "sweet spot" in the monitor space continues to move from the 17-inch-to-19-inch arena to the 20-to-22-inch part of the spectrum. The Test Center takes a look at four printers of 22 inches and larger that VARs may want to consider.
HP Intros 8-Processor, Quad-Core Opteron Server

HP is attempting to enter a market Sum Microsystems has had to itself, an analyst says.
Dell Releases Two Servers For SMB Market

Two different one-socket quad-core servers will provide energy cost savings and improve handling of memory intensive applications.
Wall Street Crisis Creates Channel Market For Server Virtualization

Tough times are leading financial services customers to look seriously at their IT infrastructures, especially their server numbers.
Review: Apple's MacBook Air

Apple's MacBook Air has gotten more attention than most notebooks usually do, and the Test Center has taken a look to see if it's worth the hype.
Intel Talks Up Six Cores, Nehalem, Graphics

Chip giant plans to ship six-core Dunnington server chip in second half, begin production of new microarchitecture by year's end and launch 'bold' new discrete graphics products by 2010.
Review: DT Research's WebDT Digital Signage

The Test Center reviews DT Research's all-in-one digital signage solution.
Apple's iPhone SDK Arrives

The iPhone is finally ready for its enterprise close-up, at least according to Apple Corp., which unveiled its software developer kit (SDK) for the iPhone at a March event for journalists and analysts on its Cupertino, Calif., campus.
How Google's Android would--could?--Stand out from the mobility pack.

Android Dream

Google Inc.'s purchase of mobile phone platform Android was more for the talent than for the mobility SDK that uses its name. With plenty of competition from small startups, open source projects from Nokia Inc., Intel Corp. and a plethora of APIs for just about every phone on the market, Google has its work cut out to gain search or any application dominance on the mobility space.
Desktop virtualization enables solution providers to change the kinds of conversations they're having with customers

Virtualization: Desktops The Next Wave

Desktop virtualization enables solution providers to change the kinds of conversations they're having with customers.
Lou Gerstner-Led Carlyle Capital on Brink of Collapse

The company anticipates that its lenders will promptly take possession of substantially all of the company's remaining assets
Acer Unveils Gemstone Blue Notebooks

Both Aspire Gemstone Blue lines will be sold through the channel and pricing starts at around $900 for lower-end configurations and will top out around $2,000.
Server Virtualization's Time Has Come For VARs

Low barriers to entry help make virtualization one of the most promising markets for VARs to enter, said ChannelWeb Senior Editor Joseph F. Kovar at Everything Channel's virtual tradeshow.
Apple Partners Say iPhone 2.0 Is Ready For Business

When Apple launched its first software developers kit last week for the iPhone, it changed the way businesses will view the company and its products, according to some VARs.
Wal-Mart Dumps Linux Desktop From Retail Stores

Wal-Mart will continue to sell the low-cost, Linux-based desktop through its online stores.
Positivo Informatica Reports More Than 1 Million PCs Sold

According to IDC, in 2007, Positivo Informatica achieved 24.3 percent of the Brazilian PC market.
Review: The Ricoh 500SE Camera With Bar Code Capture

Ricoh is billing its 500SE bar-code camera as a time-saving enterprise mobility solution. The Test Center takes a look.
Sun, Microsoft Launch Sun Infrastructure Solution for Microsoft Exchange Server 2007

The Exchange Server solution is expected to reduce total cost of ownership for e-mail by up to 70 percent in a three-year period.

Slide Shows

	Dell And HPE Battle For Cloud Infrastructure Supremacy As Public Cloud Drives $12.8B In Q4 Spending Dell, HPE, Cisco and Huawei top IDC's worldwide market share leaderboard for cloud IT infrastructure sales during the fourth quarter of 2017.
	What Does The Next-Generation Solution Provider Look Like? Top Channel Leaders Weigh In Four cloud and telecom channel leaders shared what solution providers should focus on to earn future business, how their own companies are developing the next generation of channel executives, and what their vision for the channel partner of the future will look like.
	10 Multifunction Printer Vendors To Watch As MFPs continue to grow their foothold in the office market, vendors such as HP, Xerox and Lexmark are launching refreshed new multifunction devices.