Privately, The VAR Guy is still a little depressed about his New York Jets missing a Super Bowl birth for the 42nd consecutive year. But publicly, The VAR Guy is hoping for a classic game once the kickoff occurs in a few hours. In the meantime here are six channel partner blog entries The VAR Guy didn’t have time to write for the week ending February 4, 2011.

7. New Brand, New Message: When Symantec shifted from the Symantec Hosted Services to Symantec.cloud brand in January, the company quietly began to prepare Symantec.cloud partner program materials. Now, you can find them here.

6. Partnering Up: Verio Inc., which promotes SaaS and web hosting to SMBs, has launched the viaVerio Partner Advisory Council (PAC) for 2011. Channel Insider and VARBusiness veteran Larry Walsh, now leading the 2112 Group, will serve as the council’s independent facilitator.

5. First Day: Cisco Systems Channel Marketing Veteran Luanne Tierney is set to join Juniper Networks as VP of global channel marketing on Monday, Feb. 7. The VAR Guy will be watching Juniper’s channel marketing moves closely…

4. Road Warrior: The VAR Guy is attending VMware Partner Exchange this week, and he’ll also surface at IBM PartnerWorld and Parallels Summit over the next few weeks. Stay tuned for live coverage from all of the partner-centric events. Also, watch for FalconStor to continue its storage partner efforts at this week’s VMware Partner Exchange, The VAR Guy has heard…

3. Nearing Launch: Microsoft has unveiled the Release Candidate for Windows Small Business Server 2011 Essentials, and the Release Candidate for Microsoft Windows Home Server 2011 (formerly Windows Home Server Code Name “Vail”). The VAR Guy will be watching closely to see if VARs promote the new offerings into small business and consumer accounts.

2. Double Vision: Ingram Micro VTN (April 10-13, Chicago) and Synnex Varnex (April 10-12, Boston) have overlapping schedules. Can The VAR Guy be in two places at the same time? Stay tuned…

1. Check the Headline: This remains a top-six list. Always has been. Always will be. The approach allows The VAR Guy to sneak away from the keyboard just a little early each week. At least that’s the theory…

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