by Charlene OHanlon
New Products, Channel Inititatives Highlight Kaspersky Lab Event
Kaspersky Lab peppered the first day of its 2011 Americas Partner Conference in Riviera Maya, Mexico, with a slew of new product announcements and partner offerings as well as hints of upcoming technologies designed to strengthen its partners’ collective bottom line.
Juniper Networks has made its third executive appointment of the week, naming Microsoft veteran Emilio Umeoka (pictured) as senior vice president, worldwide partners, to head up the company’s global channel efforts. There’s also a side story here: Quite a few Microsoft veterans have left the software giant in recent months, even as Microsoft strives to hire 

How can solutions providers enhance their marketing strategies? Hmmm… There are dozens of options. But The VAR Guy has one standard piece of advice: Try to muscle your way into Cisco Partner Velocity, an annual marketing strategies event that’s set to return in December 2010. Here are some quick details.
A great inspiration came today, as it so often does, from one of my entrepreneur coaching clients: How do you make sure you reach an important goal–in this case doubling sales in the second half of the year vs. the first half? Here’s a nifty idea involving four wheels and your driveway.