The VAR Guy

Computer Troubleshooters CEO Chip Reaves has resigned and will focus on a new venture called Bigger Brains later this year. Reaves is exiting the largest international network of IT service providers that offer onsite computer services to small businesses. Launched in 1999, Computer Troubleshooters claims to have more than 475 IT services franchises worldwide in more than 28 countries. Here’s the background on Reaves’ exit, his successors, and his longer-term focus on Bigger Brains.

Ingram Micro continues to expand its technology partner base. This time the wholesale provider of technology products has signed a distribution partnership with Next Level Security Systems (NLSS), a physical security firm that also offers unified network security technologies to  the retail, commercial and government markets, among others.