The VAR Guy

Amid fierce competition with Cisco Systems and Hewlett-Packard for partner attention, Juniper has shifted the date of its J-Partner Summit away from rival event schedules to a more reasonable May 24-26, 2010. Smart move. Here’s why.

The VAR Guy’s sources were correct: In a bold act that escalates a technology war (how’s that for pumping up the drama…), Hewlett-Packard plans to host its Americas Partner Conference the same week as Cisco Partner Summit 2010. Here are the details.

Two big IT events occur this week: Interop in New York and VMworld in Las Vegas. The VAR Guy, a native New Yorker, may pop into Interop before heading to ConnectWise’s partner conference in Orlando. But VMworld seems to be drowning out most of the Interop buzz. True or false?

Lenovo is leaping from the desktop into the server market, and will launch its first Linux and Windows servers this September, The VAR Guy has learned. Here’s why solutions providers — and rivals like Dell and Hewlett-Packard — should care.

The VAR Guy can’t help but laugh a bit when he reads IT coverage that’s completely out of touch with Wall Street coverage. The latest example involves Netgear.

As he blogs from rainy New York, The VAR Guy is daydreaming about Las Vegas — which is hosting two big IT events this week: Juniper Networks’ J-Partner Summit as well as Interop. Here’s the scoop from J-Partner Summit so far.