Asus accused of mainboard hoarding
After The Inquirer was unceremoniously booted off the Asus stand at Cebit, the firm's partners began complaining bitterly that the computer maker is doing its utmost to squeeze them out of the market, reports The Inquirer.
Asus is accused of hanging on to its new range of Atom and Neo mini-ITX mainboards, rather than shipping them on through the channel.
It seems the Eee-maker would prefer to avoid competition from partner integrators in the netbook space.
Seagate/AMD speed up data transfers
Seagate and AMD have joined forces to develop what they call the next generation of high-speed data transfer and are showing off their innovation this week at the XChange Solution Provider conference taking place in New Orleans, states News Factor.
The companies offered the first public demonstration of their serial ATA 6Gbps storage interface.
With burst speeds of up to 6Gbps, the innovation targets bandwidth-hungry desktop and laptop PC applications such as gaming, streaming video, and graphics multimedia.
Partners, not solutions say CIOs
If solution providers want to get in the door with a customer, leave the technology outside, according to a panel of CIOs at the XChange Solution Provider 2009 conference being held in New Orleans this week, writes ChannelWeb.
VARs are more likely to gain an end-users' attention if they talk about business improvements, the CIOs told the crowd of solution providers.
"Partners should bring something to the table. It should be more than me writing you a cheque," says Ross Bagley, CIO at Consolidated Systems, a metal products manufacturer based in Columbia, South Carolina.
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