Year: 2005

  • New Year Holds Promise for Managed Services

    Pedro Pereira

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    Thanks to the IT spending habits of small and midsize businesses, 2005 will go in the books as a pretty good year for the channel. Despite some troubling economic indicators at times, VARs, integrators and service providers, when asked, by and large reported they were having a decent year, though not record-breaking. It was a… Read more

  • Seagate Fills In the Gaps with Maxtor Purchase

    Seagate Fills In the Gaps with Maxtor Purchase

    John Hazard

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    With the acquisition this week of hard drive rival Maxtor Corp., Seagate Technology, LLC, fills in some gaps in its market and channel reach, said Seagate sources and channel partners of both companies. The Scotts Valley, Calif., vendor has made no decisions about the future of the two companies’ product lines or channel programs, but… Read more

  • CSG Targets SMB Market with Bundled Solutions

    John Hazard

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    Coast Solutions Group, a services consultant for VARs, has packaged 40 of its most popular offerings—a framework of the presales process for services—into technology- and customer-specific packages to speed users’ time to market. The package of guides and marketing materials provides VARs building a services practice or selling a new service offering, an easy-to-choose, easy-to-follow… Read more

  • Maxtor-Seagate Deal Threatens Choices

    Maxtor-Seagate Deal Threatens Choices

    Henry Baltazar

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    By acquiring Maxtor, Seagate has eliminated one of its fiercest competitors and put itself in a good position going into the future. 2005 has been a big year for storage acquisitions and this 1.9 billion dollar transaction will affect many IT managers and consumers going into the future. As weird as it is to say… Read more

  • Sun Kicks Off Try-and-Buy Program

    Sun Kicks Off Try-and-Buy Program

    Jeffrey Burt

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    Sun Microsystems Inc. has begun offering customers a new UltraSPARC T1-based system for free in a 60-day try-and-buy program. Users get two months to evaluate a new Sun Fire T2000, after which time they can buy the system or return it to Sun. Sun President Jonathan Schwartz highlighted the deal in his Weblog this weekend,… Read more

  • Google Grabs 5 Percent Solution

    Google Grabs 5 Percent Solution

    Ben Charny

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    Google Inc.: 1, Microsoft Corp.: 0. The two tech behemoths have had their first significant head-to-head battle, and Google has emerged a winner. In doing so, many feel something much bigger has happened after the first of what will surely be a significant number of duels. Google may have supplanted Microsoft as the dominant technology… Read more