Dell is moving to bolster its channel and undercut competitors with new zero-percent financing on its EqualLogic storage equipment sold through authorized partners.
Fighting the Recession with a Single-Product Focus News: Solution provider GetConnect rides the economic storm by selling only one product that leverages hot trends like SAAS, Web conferencing and green IT. GetConnect wins business through sales of and services for Adobe Connect Pro.
Crafting Tech Opportunities amid Economic Ruin
Business-technology consumers are slashing IT spending. Companies are laying off workers by the thousands. And economists, finally declaring the U.S. is in a recession, are forecasting a down year for 2009. Amid all this bad news, solution providers are finding a silver lining in the economic storm clouds.
Solution Providers to Detroit's Big Three: Live Like Us : General Motors, Ford and Chrysler executives return to Washington today in search of a multibillion-dollar bailout. Technology solution providers, struggling with their own recession pressures, have some sage business advice for the Motor City trio.
Tech Stocks Dive 7% in Monday Selloff
Wall Street gave back nearly half of its pre-Thanksgiving rally in the fourth-worst day of trading in the history of the U.S. stock market.
Intel, Hitachi Will Develop Solid-State Drives
The world s largest microprocessor vendor will partner with the Japanese electronics giant to create a new line of hard disks based on flash memory technology to capitalize on the growing adoption of the lightweight, low-power storage.
Is Microsoft Already Preparing Vista SP2?
Reports from overseas Web sites say Microsoft will release the next roll up service pack for the beleagured Vista operating system in the first half of 2009.
Retailers Seek New Tech to Save Holiday Sales
The $2.5 trillion retail industry is bracing for one of the worst holiday seasons on record. Increasingly, they re turning to solution providers to give them the high-tech tools that optimize management and operations, as well as entice shoppers into their stores.
Avnet Adds Microsoft SharePoint to SaaS Offerings
IT solution providers looking to add SAAS to their service offerings can now turn to Avnet OneTech Hosted SharePoint. Avnet s hosted Microsoft SharePoint is available immediately, and it adds to the IT distributor s hosted Microsoft Exchange service, introduced in January. Several other distributors have announced SAAS offerings, including Ingram Micro and Tech Data.
Top 10 Vendors for ROI When it comes to getting a great return on investment, end users say these channel-centrix vendors can't be beat. Microsoft didn't make the list. Guess who else isn't here?
Toshiba's Latest Tecra Turns
Compromise into an Art Form
Toshiba shows that sales success doesn’t have to come from being the fastest, cheapest, biggest and lightest notebook on the market with the latest generation of Tecra notebooks.
HTC Touch Pro Sprints
into Mobile Smartphone Market
The HTC Touch Pro smartphone may not be Sprint’s answer to Apple s iPhone, Google and T-Mobile s Android, or RIM s Blackberry, but with a Qwerty keyboard, high-resolution screen and Windows Mobile, the HTC Touch Pro smartphone sure offers a lot to a business person on the run.
Larry Walsh Thin Clients Could Eliminate 'COWS' Mobile computers -- or as their called in hospitals, "Computers on Wheels" -- may become a thing of the past as more cost-effective, manageable and secure thin client notebooks and handheld devices come to market.
Pedro Pereira No Excuses for Not Filling IT Positions IT employers still say they can't find enough qualified workers as jobless rates hit a 16-year high and vendors shed 55,000 jobs. They must be doing something wrong.
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Solution providers are all abuzz about cloud storage these days, as the technology can offer cost savings, incredible scalability, high availability and the flexibility of on-demand capacity. But it’s not a one-size-fits-all technology. Here are five cloud storage vendors that every solution provider should know.
