Topic: Hardware - Page 28

Here’s a thought. Rename the OS drive on your PC the Q drive. Makes about as much sense as the letter you probably use now. Next, tune into this week’s jam-packed episode, in which Matt, Rich, and guest host Paul Nebb, of Titan Technologies, discuss Eaton’s move into peripherals, Datto’s new BDR appliances and cloud continuity solution, and a new managed SD-WAN offering from Fortinet, Ingram Micro, and Masergy.

At its 2022 partner conference this week, the power vendor called management software an increasingly critical ingredient in hardware deals, and outlined forthcoming plans to roll all of its management tools together into a single, unified platform.

At the vendor’s partner conference in Fort Lauderdale, executives like Steve Loeb (pictured) discussed the financial and other benefits of selling Tripp Lite peripherals alongside UPS, PDU, and other power products.

Like other notebooks announced in recent weeks, the new 2-in-1 and workstations aim to balance portability and power for work-from-anywhere employees.

Retail edge devices from Dell, DaaS from Citrix, enhanced VPN from Bitdefender, and a road sign in desperate need of assistance are among the stories we waited all the way until Friday to tell you about.

The deal aims to help the vendor’s Managed Threat Response and extended detection and response offerings collect data from a broader range of sources and act on it more effectively. It was announced a day after updates to the Sophos Firewall rolled out.

Channel pros can play a valuable role helping customers sort through policies, procedures, and technologies en route to a comprehensive zero-trust strategy.

Security solutions from Bitdefender and Palo Alto, AR software from Splashtop, a new VP of channel for ScalePad (Datto partners will recognize him), and sweet news about gas prices for donut lovers are among the stories we’ve finally gotten to this week.

The new program provides tools and financial rewards aimed at motivating channel pros to reduce electronic waste—and make money in the process—by returning used hardware for refurbishment and recycling.

The hardware giant saw client device revenue climb 26% to a record-setting $17.3 billion in its latest fiscal quarter, and expects sales of notebooks and desktops to remain strong despite an extended recent purchasing wave.