Longbow Research says European VARs should be happy with the last quarter-- with December 2010 hardware sales exceeding budgets for 46% of its conacts.
The entire quarter was particularly strong, with 58% of Longbow's contacts exceeding their budgets (the rest met their sales budgets). The sales average sequential increase for Q4 2010 is at 20-25%.
The drivers for this quarter are strength with SMB, enterprise and manufacturing verticals, strength in storage products (thanks to virtualisation) and IBM product line strength (many customers "waited" Read more...