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Partners Get Candid About Microsoft

Microsoft partners have had grievances with the company from Office 365 margins to reselling Surface. Partners are honest about Satya Nadella's first year at the helm.

Distributor Differentiators: CEOs Dish On What Sets Each Apart

All distributors have the basic pick, pack and ship down to a science. But what makes each unique is how they layer in their own solutions, services and vendor offerings. Take a look at how each sets their business apart from the pack, straight from the mouths of the top executives themselves.

Palo Alto Poised To Set Traps For Competitors

With the launch of Traps, Palo Alto Networks looks to win multimillion dollar data center deals as an enterprise-wide security platform prevention company rather than just a next generation firewall provider.

Recent Data Breaches Offer Opportunities For MSPs

ThreatTrack Security says MSPs can make bank on the news of bad breaches in the SMB market by making their customers aware of the security threats that exist today.

Ingram Micro Unveils Comprehensive Chromebook Offering

Ingram Micro has over the past two months reached agreements with 65 channel partners to resell Chromebooks, which should cost $5,200 less than a traditional laptop or desktop over the lifetime of a device.

Paul Bay, Execs: What The Future Holds For Ingram Micro

What's new at Ingram Micro? The distributor has expanded its professional services, rolled out a next-generation cloud marketplace, and will be introducing portals for the retail and finance verticals, executives said during the company's ONE event in Las Vegas.

Cisco Touts Partner Opportunities With SmartNet

SmartNet, along with related offerings like SmartNet Total Care, represent a significant -- and very lucrative -- opportunity for Cisco's channel partners, an executive says.

Curvature: Call Us The Disrupter

As the channel embraces Curvature's NetSure, a top executive says he fully expects the service to be highly disruptive to Cisco and its SmartNet offering.

5 Companies That Had A Rough Week

For the week ending Sept. 26, CRN looks at IT companies that were unfortunate, unsuccessful or just didn't make good decisions.

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