| Solutions Space |
| In Focus : Racks And Enclosures: Emerging Business Opportunity |
| With racks and enclosures undergoing a sea change in terms of its utility, it has become a good business proposition for solution providers |
| CASE STUDY : Racking Solutions For Your Data Center |
| Racking solutions from Rittal helped Societe Generale achieve optimal utilization of space within data center. The team comprising 15 members from Pursuit Technologies took three months to implement and design the entire project |
| Industry Fact : Competition Is Biggest Challenge For IT Channels In India |
| While margins and pricing are more important for channel partners in tier-2 cities, competition is a key overall challenge for the community a study by Springboard reveals |
| Channel Chife : We are working with IBM to offer our master distributors longer credit period |
| Having moved his base back to India from the US, Ramkumar Subramanian is now trying to propel AMD into the fast-growth league, especially when business is sluggish for the chip maker and others in the industry |
| Channel Chife : Our geographical expansion is helping us sail through the recession |
| Post the appointment of Iris Computers as its national distributor, Microsoft India is well on its way to reaching out to 260 cities. According to Kiran Mani, Iris fits well in their overall scheme of things and will help them penetrate the upcountry cities |
| Channel Pules : Green Is Here To Stay In A Big Way |
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| Guest Gyan : Learn to put an entire data center together to sustain business |
| Werner's advice to solution providers who are offering piecemeal offerings in the data center space is to concentrate on offering services and become more of a consultant than a product supplier |
| Channel Event : IT Panchayat : Aurangabad Partners Battle Slowdown Blues |
| During the IT Panchayat in Aurangabad, partners complained that as if the recession was not having a bad enough impact on the city, the lack of acknowledgement from distis in the region was also hindering their performance |
| The Perspective |
| Credit Rating System: Need Of The Hour |
| Given the slump faced by economies globally and the rise in the number of defaultees, it is about time that the channel had a credit rating system in place to ensure smooth operation for the entire chain |
| Slowdown And IT Expos |
| Though recession and slowdown is witnessed in metros across India, the upcountry seems to be left untouched. Not surprisingly, these B and C-class cities are all charged up about their IT expos |
| Channel Event |
| IT Panchayat : Blame Game Continues Between Distis And Channel |
| Channel who attended the IT Panchayat at Nashik came ready with their list of unresolved issues they had with the vendors and distis, but nobody was ready to take the onus |
| CMDA : Expo Gets Off To A Promising Start |
| The 11th IT Expo 2008 organized by CMDA has gotten off to a promising start despite the recession acting as a depressing background |
| IT Panchayat : IT Panchayat Reaches Ahmedabad |
| The issues that heated up the event were that of DoA, present financial crisis and the issue of products being sold at prices higher then its MRP |
| Surat Channel Appreciate Disti Support |
| At the IT Panchayat organized in Surat, channel partners appreciated the support rendered to them by distributors |
| 'Chak De' PC Solutions |
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