R&D throughout the industry has led to significant steps in innovation this year. VARBusiness Tech Innovator Awards recognize the most innovative of these offerings from several different sectors.
Vendors submitted hundreds of entries for the 2008 VARBusiness Tech Innovator Awards, but only a handful emerged as purveyors of unique, groundbreaking products. Here's a look at the winners.
HP's first touch-screen notebook for consumers has plenty of options for work and play.
Inside This Issue: June 16, 2008
Cover Story
Race To The Midmarket
Solution providers who made their bones with the enterpsie are turning to the midmarket for economic salvation. What do they have to do to capitalize?
>> VARs Need To Build Up Midmarket Relations
>> The Midmarket List
>> Slide Show: The Hottest Midmarket Companies Right Now
News Analysis
Defining The Cloud
Apple's new iPhone 3G is cheaper and snazzier, but the CRN Test Center argues that the vendor's cloud-defining MobileMe solution is the most exciting take-away. Plus, the hit parade of channel executive departures isn't exactly slowing down this month.
>> Specs On A New 'iPhone Killer'
>> Departures At HP, Avaya
>> Execs On The Move
>> Channel Strength
>> Fast Company
>> Symantec In Sync
>> An HP Departure
>> Slide Show: HP's New PCs: Touch And Whoa!
Fast Growth
Price Is No Object
Having built its business using Microsoft platforms, hotshot Neudisic doesn't fear economic downturn or opening its wallet for the industry's top talent.
Market Focus: MSP
Show Me The Green
As more managed service providers see a value-add in green IT, they're learning how to market its benefits to make better business sense for customers.
Tech Focus
Custom Made
Intel tweaks its programs with small businesses and systems builders in mind to benefit, while AMD hopes to leverage Intel's whitebook platform delay for its own gains. Plus, the Test Center tees up a new RAID controller.
>> AMD Moves To Capitalize On Montevina Delay
>> Controller Pairs Price, Performance
ShadowRAM: June 16, 2008
You Call That A Hard Foul?; Real Oldies But Goodies; Seen And Heard.
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• HP's Personal Systems Group Lines Get A Makeover In Berlin
• Under The Lights: The 2008 VARBusiness 500 Awards
• Will Microsoft Deliver The 'Wow' In Windows 7?
• AMD Prowls For Notebook Wins With Puma
• Microsoft To Businesses: Skipping Vista Is Bad
• Steampunk Rising
• Video: Taming Vista's User Account Control
• Slide Show: Somebody's Watching You: 10 IP Video Surveillance Cameras
COLUMNISTS
Robert C. DeMarzo:
Channel Centric
Oracle Says Two Heads Are Better Than One
After Ochs left, Oracle went on an extensive search for a replacement, ultimately deciding to split her position in two. It was a bold move.
Robert Faletra:
On The Record
EMC's New Juggling Act With The Channel
The storage giant is certain to become a more important vendor to more solution providers as Iomega's channel gets folded in.
Edward F. Moltzen:
The Chart
Dell, The Innovator?
In 2006, Dell is a direct-only company, it's suffering from the bad publicity of having one of its notebooks blow up at a conference in Japan and its market share is on the verge of a big decline as companies including HP and Acer are taking away business.
Craig Zarley:
On The Front Lines
Lessons Of A Lifetime
Most often people win a lifetime achievement award at the end of their careers. The honor serves more as a retrospect of past glories rather than a harbinger of great things to come. Not so with Bruce Geier.
