Dan Serpico (pictured), CEO of San Francisco-based FusionStorm - No. 46 on the CRN Solution Provider 500 – addressing a shortage of memory and SSDs currently gripping the hardware market. The shortages, along with rising prices, are wreaking havoc on solution providers, whose customers deploy technology on predetermined, often strict, schedules.

"The delay impacts our revenue, our ability to ship. Our backlog is higher than normal right now because stuff is on a longer timeframe than we would expect. It impacts our cash flow, our profitability. You can't really move your costs, so we're going to see price increases."