Your customers can get the classic Office apps - Word, Excel, and PowerPoint to create and present their ideas effortlessly. Icons - New built-in library of professional, high-quality icons they can use to make content more visual. Since these icons are vector-based, they look great at any size without getting pixelated. Make presentations more dynamic and exciting. Create cinematic motion effortlessly with Morph and jump to and from slides and sections in any order with Zoom. Excite yo...

Protect what you’ve built Now, you can worry less about the safety of your business information. 50% small businesses have suffered a data breach of cyberattack.1. Always up-to-date2 protection for your users, devices, and data in Windows 10 Pro, helps secure your business against ever-evolving cybercrime. Your information is encrypted on hard drives and USBs, and you can remotely wipe data from a lost or stolen device.3 Windows 10 Pro offers dozens of features to help enable end-to-end s...

What’s new in Office? Help your customers do their best work – anywhere, anytime, and with anyone. New, modern versions of the classic desktop applications, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and OneNote, are built for maximum productivity. With the latest version of Office, your customers will have access to their docs in the cloud whenever they need them. And it’s easy to get the team on the same page. Share, present and work together on projects with built in collaboration tools acros...

Why should your customers buy Office now? Office delivers powerful leading new versions of familiar and trusted applications with built-in collaboration tools and easy access to documents from any device. Office is ideal for customers: •    Purchasing a new device. •    Running an older version of Office. •    Requiring the latest productivity tools with enhanced performance and security. Office 2016. Takes the work out of work...

Learn how Intel Optane Memory can be used to balance performance, cost, and storage capacity to differentiate your desktop product lineup by offering your customers storage options that include a good, better, and best configuration choice. The implementation of the newest technologies and the creation of various service programs are the key elements to differentiating your business and your brand. They create a value proposition or heritage of the way you do business that make your company ...

Among the various computer segments within the technology industry, the server market offers one of the best opportunities for growth because VARs can emphasize their unique strengths which include the ability to completely customize the server solution, provide diverse levels of service that meet each client’s unique needs, and the ability to integrate the entire infrastructure from network, to hardware, and software all of which are highly desirable for this sector. According to IDC, ...

Evolution in computer technology is a certainty, but perhaps the segment that has been evolving the most has been storage, and more specifically has been solid state drives. In fact, until the release of SSD, improvements in storage technologies were almost entirely based on increases in capacity with little to no advances in performance. This all changed with the introduction of solid state drives based on NAND memory rather than spinning disks. The first drives were put into a 2.5” form ...

Wearable compute devices which are primarily made up of smart watches, wristbands, and ear wear, are expected to ship 125.5 million units in 2017, according to data from IDC Worldwide Quarterly Wearable Device Tracker. This would represent a 20.4% increase over the 104.3 million units shipped in 2016 and aligns with estimates showing the market will have an annual growth rate of 18.2% over the next five years. With such impressive growth and with over 56% of all wearable devices being smart w...

Back in August 2016 we posted a Blog regarding the shortage on NAND memory and the impact it was having on SSD supply. In the blog we outlined the major contributors to the shortage and gave an industry perspective on when supply may recover. Today we are posting this update because the more things change the more they stay the same. Simply put, NAND memory continues to be constrained as demand outpaces volume and the shortage is now expected by some to continue through 2017 and may extend into ...

2017 is a significant year in ASI’s history as we celebrate our 30th Anniversary. Looking back over the years, we have witnessed many changes in technology, as well as seen how those technologies have revolutionized the entire computer industry.  From client PCs to server farms and beyond, ASI has been fortunate to have enjoyed a high level of support and dedication from our customers as well as our suppliers who all share a common commitment of providing the highest levels of service...