Stories by: Maxine Cheung

Seagate has extended its Barracuda line of desktop storage drives with the introduction of its Barracuda XT product.

Toronto-based solution provider, IT Methods, is aiming to "bring high-definition video conferencing to the masses," with its new videoCloud managed telepresence service offering and the help of its channel partners.

Symantec Corp. announced last week the availability of its Norton Online Backup Web service for consumers. According to one analyst, this means the Symantec channel will now have to find more innovative ways to bring Symantec solutions to market.

Intel and Dell are seeking from the U.S. District Court and the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO), a trademark cancellation over the term "netbook", held by rugged mobile computing solutions vendor, Psion Teklogix.

At a time when most businesses are looking to cut costs and leverage existing resources, channel partners may feel discouraged in the marketplace. But according to Lora Gernon, senior director of Microsoft Canada's partner group, there's actually no better time than now for partners to start having conversations with their customers.

As a long-time veteran in the IT channel industry, Julie Parrish sent waves in the channel when she announced her departure from Symantec. Now the vice-president of worldwide channel sales at NetApp, Parrish is focusing her efforts on getting to know the company's partners to ensure their profitability now and into the future.

With last year's acquisition of Port Authority, a data loss prevention (DLP) vendor and SurfControl, a Web and e-mail security company, Websense has since evolved from being known as a Web solution company to establishing itself as one that also provides DLP and e-mail security solutions.

Relax, we're still all about the channel. That's the message Symantec is seeking to send to its partners after remarks by its COO during a conference call had many questioning the security vendor's commitment to the indirect model.

Larry Keating, the president and CEO of Canadian-based No Panic Computing (NPC), is trying to revolutionize the way notebooks are purchased by small business professionals with his notebook-as-a-service model.

Cisco Capital announced earlier this week the extension of its zero percent progress payments program as well as the launch of its new grow IT partner portal, both designed to better support North American channel partners deploying Cisco Unified Communications solutions.