Wayside Technology Group, Inc. is an information technology (IT) channel company. The Company distributes software and hardware developed by others through resellers indirectly to customers across the world. The Company operates through two segments: Lifeboat Distribution and TechXtend. The Lifeboat Distribution segment distributes technical software and hardware to corporate resellers, value added resellers (VARs), consultants and systems integrators across the world. The TechXtend segment is a value-added reseller of software, hardware and services for corporations, government organizations and academic institutions in the United States and Canada. The Company offers a line of products from publishers of software and tools for virtualization/cloud computing, security, networking, storage and infrastructure management, application lifecycle management and other technical domains, as well as computer hardware.