Products & Services

In these hard, economic times it’s no surprise that Green IT is still on the minds of many VARs. The cost effective solutions and reduction of energy resonate with business customers. In IT ChannelPlanet, Lynn Harber, talks about green within the SMB space, vertical growth and how MSPs are mastering green expertise. Read more about this year’s trends and continue coming back the channel blog for more discussions on Dell and Green IT solutions.

If you’d like to learn more about Green IT, please check out our previous discussions below--

Green IT in the Channel

What Are Your Green Credentials

Dell’s Future-Greenest Technology Company on the Planet

Are You Really Green or Green With Envy?

Dell Introduces Energy Star Five Rated Configurations

Paul Young, a Senior Product Manager at Dell, talks about the need to manage complex IT environments across branch and satellite offices. Read more about Paul’s thoughts over on Dell’s Inside IT blog.

Our blogger friends over at AMD recently worked with Daniel Bounds, Dell’s Senior Manager of Power & Cooling, to discuss cost effective IT productivity. Check out Daniel’s thoughts on “doing more with less” utilizing Dell’s Energy Smart platforms and collaboration with AMD at http://blogs.amd.com/work/archive/2009/01/25/conspicuous-consumption-is-out-of-style.aspx

Register here to listen to tips and best practices on selling IT services in today’s challenging market from Damon Poeter [Everything Channel Associate Editor], Sean Phelan [Dell Director of Enterprise Sales], and Sandhya Gorman [Intel Enterprise Marketing Manager] on Thursday, January 22^nd’s NetSeminar.

On the agenda:

·         Sales meeting focus topics

·         Demonstrating full spectrum ROI with IT services customers

·         Best practices for closing IT services and hardware deals

Read for more details.

In their annual list, PC World identifies new and booming technologies such as –

802.11n

Unified Communications

Data Protection

Green IT

Network Access Control

10 Gigabit Ethernet

Virtualization

Cloud Computing

Web 2.0

Check out the article to capture more on each featured technology.