http://www.crn.in CRN.IN http://www.crn.in//Hardware-016May012-Intel-Ships-New-Xeons.aspx The new processors are all based on the older Sandy Bridge platform, but have been priced aggressively to take on AMD across each segment Home http://www.crn.in//Networks-016May012-Digilink-To-Conduct-Country-Wide-Seminars.aspx To be conducted in 55 cities, the seminar series will provide Digilink partners a networking platform, boosting their confidence toward the brand and access to a wider portfolio of products Home http://www.crn.in//Hardware-016May012-Emerson-Changes-Business-Model.aspx With the acquisition of Avocent, the company is focused to offer packaged power solutions including cooling rack, UPS, KVM, RDU, camera, heat sensors etc Home http://www.crn.in//Hardware-016May012-AOC-Launches-Scheme-For-Monitors.aspx Partners can win steam iron, mobile phone, microwave, washing machine, LED or LCD TV as well as lucky draw of Rs 10 lakh and a surprise gift for high-achievers Home http://www.crn.in//ITChannel-015May012-Viewsonics-Country-Manager-Puts-In-His-Papers.aspx CRN Exclusive Kuldeep Ramaiya, National Sales Head, ViewSonic India will replace Ajay Sharma, who quit as Country Manager Home http://www.crn.in//Networks-015May012-Array-Networks-Launches-Load-Balancer-For-Lync-Server-2010.aspx The APV Series application delivery controllers are designed to ensure the availability of Lync services by optimizing resource utilization, maximizing throughput, minimizing response times, and ensuring a seamless user experience in the event that application servers become unavailable Home http://www.crn.in//Storage-015May012-Indian-IT-Infrastructure-Market-To-Reach-USD-2-Billion-In-2012.aspx According to Gartner, the market is expected to reach $3.01 billion by 2016 driven by ongoing data center modernization and new data center build outs Home http://www.crn.in//Hardware-014May012-BenQ-Eyes-Growth-In-Smaller-Cities.aspx The company targets 15 percent of projector revenue from tier-2 and -3 cities, increase its RDs from the present 100 to 175, and active resellers from 300 to 600 Home http://www.crn.in//Networks-014May012-Netgear-Launches-IP-Surveillance-For-SMBs.aspx ReadyNAS Surveillance is a comprehensive IP surveillance solution that incorporates surveillance software, storage, switching and network management Home http://www.crn.in//Services-014May012-Citrix-Unveils-Mobile-Enterprise-Strategy.aspx The company has introduced a slew of cloud solutions including GoToMeeting HDFaces, Citrix Podio, ShareFile StorageZones, RemotePC and CloudGateway 2 Home http://www.crn.in//Network-014May012-Brocade-Appoints-New-VP-For-Asia-Pacific.aspx The company has replaced Deb Dutta with Charlie Foo who has been promoted from his earlier position as Senior Director, Partner Business Group, APAC Home http://www.crn.in//Hardware-011May012-Trends-And-Opportunities-In-The-PC-Market.aspx While PC sales are expected to climb 17 percent, AIOs,ultrabooks netbooks and Windows 8 are some of the new trends capturing customer and partner fancy Home http://www.crn.in//Networks-011May012-HP-Bets-On-OpenFlow.aspx The company has offered firmware upgrades on 16 switches; this will allow existing users to upgrade free of cost to the new manageability features around OpenFlow Home http://www.crn.in//Networks-011May012-Netgear-Appoints-Regional-Director.aspx Subhodeep Bhattacharyas last assignment was as Director, HP Networking Home http://www.crn.in//Services-010May012-Automated-Managed-Services-A-Work-In-Progress.aspx The size of the market is massive, and the rationale of AMS is hard to argue with, yet the ground experience for many partners has been less than satisfactory. CRN looks at how a few partners are successfully leveraging the opportunity Home http://www.crn.in//Software-010May012-Ramco-Appoints-New-CEO.aspx Virender Aggarwal has worked as President, HCL Technologies and as Head, Emerging Markets and Senior VP and Director, Head, APAC, MEIA, Satyam Computer Services' Home http://www.crn.in//ITChannel-010May012-Edit-My-Moment-Of-Reckoning.aspx Attending a recent annual day of a partner organization was an enthralling experience that gave me a 360-degree view of the IT channels contribution in growing the customer business Home http://www.crn.in//News-010May012-The-UC-Champs.aspx Info-Tech Research Group lists Avaya, Cisco, Microsoft, Siemens Enterprise Communications and IBM as the champions of the unified communications market that will be driven by rising BYOD initiatives Home http://www.crn.in//Hardware-009May012-Interview-Vishal-Dhupar-Managing-Director-nVIDIA-India.aspx Vishal Dhupar, Managing Director, nVIDIA India, talks about the companys GTM and explains why a dedicated GPU is important for a better PC experience even if you are not into gaming Home http://www.crn.in//Services-009May012-MyVMware-To-Offer-More-Benefits.aspx Partners will be able to manage licenses, renewals, license consolidation and support status on one platform Home http://www.crn.in//ITChannel-009May012-Accel-Frontline-Automates-Point-Solutions.aspx The deployment will enable the SI to deliver more value to SMB and enterprise clients, and reduce operating expenses through remote support services via its managed services operation center Home http://www.crn.in//Security-009May012-McAfee-Doubles-IPS-Performance-Capability-For-Data-Centers.aspx The McAfee network security platform includes granular multi-tenancy options that are purpose built for service provider environments. SPs can create up to 1000 virtual IPS policies per appliance, with granular policy control and rule-set capability Home http://www.crn.in//Hardware-008May012-Lenovo-Launches-Six-New-Desktops-Tiny-New-Form-Factors.aspx Lenovo has unveiled a series of new ThinkCentre desktops and all-in-ones, including the new tiny M92p, which the PC maker said measures the width of a golf ball Home http://www.crn.in//ITChannel-008May012-CMDA-To-Deal-With-Defaulters-Strictly.aspx Computers and Media Dealers Association—Pune has introduced trade guidelines to address partner concerns against credit policies, warranty policies and default payments Home http://www.crn.in//Networks-008May012-Oracle-Syncs-Partner-Strategy-With-T4-Servers.aspx The vendor, which had been reticent about its hardware strategy so far, said that tier-2 partners are now central to its plans, and is looking for new partners in Class B cities Home http://www.crn.in//ITChannel-008May012-Role-Model-Asis-Chaudhuri-CEO-Duckback-Information-Systems.aspx At one point of time Duckback Information Systems had actually downed shutters. But Asis Chaudhuri, now its CEO, revived the company and transformed it into one of the leading VARs in east India Home http://www.crn.in//ITChannel-007May012-Cisco-NetApp-To-Help-Small-Customers-Move-To-Cloud.aspx NetApp and Cisco recently announced plans to extend FlexPod with a series of pre-validated design architectures priced and sized for smaller workloads. Manu Bansal, Vice President, Advanced Technology Channels, Cisco in an interview with CRN explains the move Home http://www.crn.in//Services-007May012-Canon-Engages-Partners-For-DMS.aspx The company expects 11 existing partners to close at least two deals in the next six months and will engage 11-12 more partners in tier-1 cities by 2012-end Home http://www.crn.in//Hardware-007May012-AMD-Appoints-New-Senior-VP-CMO.aspx Colette LaForce will take the new role from her current position as Global Vice President and Chief Marketing Officer, Dell Services business unit Home http://www.crn.in//Software-007May012-Opportunities-For-Partners-In-ERP.aspx The Indian ERP market is currently estimated to be worth Rs 40,000 crore and is expected to grow at a CAGR of 25 percent in the next 3-4 years Home http://www.crn.in//ITChannel-004May012-Salesforce-com-Sacks-Sales-And-Marketing-Teams.aspx CRN Exclusive In a sudden and shocking move, Salesforce.com has sacked over 35 sales and marketing personnel from its Gurgaon office. The company justified the move and said that it is relocating its head office to Hyderabad Home http://www.crn.in//Hardware-005May012-Xerox-Launches-Olympics-Challenge.aspx The company will reward top performing partners who exceed targets for April-June 2012 with an all-expense paid trip to London Olympics from Aug 6-9, 2012 Home http://www.crn.in//Networks-004May012-Juniper-Makes-Addition-To-Simply-Connected-Portfolio.aspx Besides adding security gateways, the additions allow to automatically enforce security and access policies across wired, wireless and mobile devices Home http://www.crn.in//ITChannel-004May012-Envent-Appoints-Regional-Head-For-West.aspx Prior to Envent, Amarjeet Singh Naidu worked as Zonal Sales Manager, Belkin India, Regional Sales Manager (West), WD, and Territory Manager, Channel Sales, Samsung Home http://www.crn.in//ITChannel-003May012-Priyanka-Serves-Legal-Notice-To-HP-India.aspx The sub-distributor has claimed Rs 50 lakh as damages for defaming them among the customers and for divergence of their business to new partners without prior information Home http://www.crn.in//Security-003May012-Trend-Micro-To-Strengthen-Consumer-Business.aspx To strengthen its Titanium brand in the consumer segment, the company has appointed Anupam Rahi and Anand Shringi as National Sales Managers for India Saarc Home http://www.crn.in//News-003May012-Symantec-Meghalaya-Government-To-Train-Students.aspx Symantec would provide courseware, systems, processes, faculty and award certificates at the end of the course, which will be followed by job fairs for qualified students Home http://www.crn.in//Storage-003May012-EMC-Announces-Case-Management-Solution-for-Government-And-PSUs.aspx The solution addresses the need in government and PSUs to automate workflow processes to reduce process time, eliminate manual errors, and for transparency and compliance Home http://www.crn.in//ITChannel-002May012-Cloud-Will-Force-Partners-To-Transform-Themselves-Analyst.aspx Rauline Ochs, Senior Vice President, IPED, MarketBridge Alliance, a research and consulting firm affiliated with UBM, the parent company of CRN says that solution providers must decide how they want to work in the cloud and with whom to partner Home http://www.crn.in//Hardware-002May012-Foxconn-Eyes-Indian-Market.aspx The $100 billion manufacturing company that has an OEM client partnership with virtually all leading brands, is positioning motherboards, chassis and the Nano PC for India Home http://www.crn.in//ITChannel-002May012-RM-Increases-Focus-In-Tier-2-And-3-Cities.aspx It is appointing regional distributors who would work its national distributors, Vibgyor Net-Connections and Inflow Technologies Home http://www.crn.in//Software-002May012-Global-ECM-Market-To-Triple-By-2017.aspx The top five revenue earners in 2011 - OpenText, EMC, Oracle, IBM, and HP (Autonomy)—accounted for more than 80 percent of the market which is forecast to grow from $2,750 million in 2011 to $7,919.5 million by 2017 Home http://www.crn.in//Services-030Apr012-Zenith-Launches-Private-Cloud.aspx Aimed at mid-size organizations, TigerCloud is based on Intel Xeon E3 processor family, DBS1200BTS board and 320 series SSDs, and is built around Microsofts Hyper-V technology Home http://www.crn.in//Security-030Apr012-Kaspersky-Launches-Virtualization-Security-Solution.aspx Kaspersky Security for Virtualization is a virtual security appliance that integrates with VMware vShield Endpoint to provide agent less, anti malware security Home http://www.crn.in//Hardware-027Apr012-Asus-To-Double-Notebook-Marketshare.aspx The company plans to grow 30 percent QoQ by increasing number of RDs to 20, exclusive stores to 100 and its portfolio across all price-points Home http://www.crn.in//ITChannel-027Apr012-Role-Model-Ajaya-Kumar-CMD-Park-Network.aspx Kumar started Park Network as a small supplier of network products; the company has now transformed into a Rs 120 crore strong regional distributor and retailer in the Delhi NCR Home http://www.crn.in//ITChannel-027Apr012-Emerson-Launches-Unlimited-Gifts-Bonanza.aspx Partners can win smart phones, laptops, LED TVs at a minimum slab of Rs 1 lakh apart from a surprise booster award in May for high achievers Home http://www.crn.in//ITChannel-027Apr012-TPV-Appoints-RDs-For-NEC-Monitors.aspx The company has appointed Inspan Infotech and Savera Marketing as exclusive RDs for South and East respectively Home http://www.crn.in//Hardware-026Apr012-Srivastava-To-Head-PPSG.aspx CRN Exclusive Although HP India is not formally commenting on the development, some leading HP partners said they have received verbal communication from HP managers about the development Home http://www.crn.in//Hardware-026Apr012-Trends-in-the-display-market.aspx Vendors foresee the display market to grow faster than the assembler market, 18.5 inches display monitors are now the new norm; while 3D gaming and content are expected to further push the market Home