Our ChannelPro Reviews team has been hard at work organizing the categories and over the course of four weeks more than 5,000 ballots were cast on products across 15 categories and multiple price ranges. We have arranged the winners and finalists by product categories and you can access the lists via the links below. Be sure to also check out our ChannelPro Reviews YouTube channel (aka motherboards.org) where we will be posting special videos related to the Awards.
A special THANK YOU to all of you who voted and to our vendor finalists and winners who provide outstanding products to our community!
THEME: Cloud Storage Virtualization Essentials
Storage virtualization is a big part of why private cloud infrastructures are so efficient and scalable. Capitalizing fully on virtual storage’s benefits, however, requires working knowledge of some potentially unfamiliar technologies and techniques.
In this informative webinar, host Michael Siggins of ChannelPro magazine and his expert guests discuss best practices for configuring and maintaining a virtual storage infrastructure. You’ll get concrete advice on sizing a storage environment, implementing business continuity and disaster recovery strategies, and ensuring that your client’s needs never outgrow their resources. You’ll also get straightforward answers to your biggest storage virtualization questions.
See the Webinar on-demand here.
Download the slide deck from the Webinar here.
Read more.THEME: Getting Cloud Ready: How to Set Your Prices
Pricing managed services can be tricky. Pricing cloud services can be even trickier. Since margins on some cloud offerings are thin, resellers have little room for error. This webinar provides detailed guidelines for pricing public and private cloud solutions in ways that maximize both profit and competitiveness.
We take into account staffing, marketing and infrastructure costs to provide you with the knowledge to competitively (and profitably) price your cloud offerings.
See the Webinar on-demand here.
Download the slide deck from the Webinar here.
Read more.Due to the many excellent solutions offered in the channel, we could never include every brand/product as a choice for each question. That’s why we tapped our editorial team to create a random selection of vendors for each category PLUS an “other” category so we’d be sure to allow all respondents to add in their favorite brands.
We encourage everyone to cast a ballot and be sure to send it off to your colleagues and partners to vote for theirs as well.
A special thank you to our promotional partner The ASCII Group—Helping MSPs, VARS and Resellers for Over 27 Years!
Read more.The ChannelPro team is here in lovely Colorado Springs as Ingram Micro kicks off their 2012 Spring VentureTech Invitational. With more than 600 IT solution providers and vendor partners it is a veritable who’s who of the channel.
The event theme is “Partner. Prosper. Repeat,” and this four-day event is designed to fuel the collaboration between Ingram Micro and its top partners, and drive greater growth and comradery across the entire community.
“For more than a decade, the Ingram Micro VTN community has played an instrumental role within the IT industry and continues to serve as an advocate for the channel and as a strategic advisory board to Ingram Micro and our VTN manufacturer partners,” says John Fago, senior director of channel marketing, Ingram Micro North America.
“This year, we are investing in more ways to embed the collaborative nature of VTN deeper into our members’ organizations in order to create increased value that will ultimately net greater prosperity for our members, vendors and Ingram Micro,” says Fago. “These efforts will also benefit the IT channel at large by demonstrating firsthand how partnering smart with Ingram Micro will lead to greater success in both the short and long-term.”
In 2012, the VTN community is striving to achieve 100 percent peer-to-peer partnership within the community and ensure that the benefits of VTN are enjoyed throughout each member organization. Fago says this two-pronged goal is “within reach and will definitely build on the success of the VTN community and generate even greater business value.”
IT leaders including Harris Warsaw of IBM, Alison Gleeson and Kerry McDonough of Cisco, Mike Parrottino of HP, and Chris Frey of Lenovo will share industry insights and business growth opportunities with the... Read more.
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