Hey Monty, who made key channel partner program deals for the week ending July 17, 2009? Here’s a look at new alliances, reseller agreements and partner program initiatives, as tracked by The VAR Guy.
This week’s moves — from A to S — included:
- ADTRAN, the network equipment maker, has launched a leasing program for channel partners. Marlin Leasing Corp. is assisting the effort.
- Alfresco Software Inc. (the open source enterprise content management specialist) and Caringo Inc. (a content storage software provider) have partnered to introduce a combined solution for managing and storing content for billions of files and petabytes of data.
- Avnet Technology Solutions has agreed to distribute Data Domain‘s deduplication storage systems.
- Bell Micro and Hewlett-Packard are partnering on a “Build OEM Better” (BOB) initiative, not to be confused with Microsoft Bob.
- IT Solutions by Design (ITSBD) of Franklin, Tenn., has joined Consonus Technologies‘ partner program for disaster recovery and business continuity solutions. Consonus promotes SAS70 Type II data centers to its channel partners.
- Paragon Software, which specializes in security and management, has opened a San Francisco Bay Area office and added Channel Manager Koka Sexton to the team.
- Al Roker is joining The Weather Channel on July 20. It’s a channel move, folks. The first reader that emails The VAR Guy about Al Roker’s career move gets a $10 gift card to Starbucks. Email: TheVARguy [at] NineLivesMediaInc.com. You must include the subject line “Weather Man.”
- Source Technologies has launched a new partner program for its Kiosks and print solutions.
Whether you’re joining — or leaving — a partner program, let The VAR Guy know.
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Looking back on it, Monty was a cad and a womanizer. And I would get frustrated as I always wanted the next door, even at risk it might be a dud, and most of the time it was.
This is one source of inspiration written over 100 years ago:
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PRICES
It’s unwise to pay too much. But it’s worse to pay too little.
When you pay too much, you lose a little money, that is all.
When you pay too little, you sometimes lose everything, because the thing you bought was incapable of doing the thing it was bought to do.
The common laws of business balance prohibits paying a little and getting a lot. It can’t be done.
If you deal with the lowest bidder, it is well to add something for the risk you run.
And if you do that, you will have enough to pay for something better.
There is hardly anything in the world that someone can’t make a little worse and sell a little cheaper – and people who consider price alone is this man’s lawful prey.
John Ruskin
1819 – 1900
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And the more sophisticated the product the moreso, and is very applicable to the IT industry and VARs, in particular.
I hope I am not giving my competition the secret by posting it on this blog….