Year: 2007

  • Nimsoft Beefs Up Monitoring Technology

    Jessica Davis

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    IT performance and monitoring vendor Nimsoft is now offering a much more scalable version of its flagship product Nimbus, plus new support for the infrastructure within the LAMP stack. About a quarter of Redwood City, Calif.-based Nimsoft’s customers are MSPs (managed services providers) who use Nimsoft’s service-level monitoring software to help manage and monitor clients’… Read more

  • Microsoft Monitoring and Management for the Middle

    Microsoft Monitoring and Management for the Middle

    Karen Schwartz

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    Microsoft has tweaked its Windows Live OneCare self-updating PC care service to better meet the needs of small user group environments. Windows Live OneCare consists of a set of security and performance tools, all managed by a central console. Security features include anti-virus, anti-spyware and firewall feature with automatic updates. Performance tools include backup and… Read more

  • Price of Gas Should Fuel Unified Communications

    Michael Vizard

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    If you spend any time at all traveling on the roads this year for Thanksgiving, it will quickly dawn on you that driving in lots of traffic is not only not fun, it’s expensive. And worse yet, as we move into 2008 we’re probably looking at scenarios where gas reaches $4 a gallon given the… Read more

  • Software Is the Star Performer for HP

    Sara Driscoll

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    HP is lauding its software unit as its major growth area, following the vendor’s latest financial results. HP reported net revenue of $28.3 billion, up 15 percent from a year earlier and up 11 percent when adjusted for the effects of currency for its fourth fiscal quarter ended Oct. 31, 2007. GAAP operating profit was… Read more

  • Maryland to Tax Computer Services

    Maryland to Tax Computer Services

    Sharon Linsenbach

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    Maryland lawmakers Nov. 19 approved a 6 percent sales tax on computer services, a move industry groups call harmful to business and service. The measure, among $1.3 billion in new taxes intended to close a $1.7 billion budget deficit next year, levies a 6 percent sales tax, beginning in 2009, on IT facilities management and… Read more

  • IBM Exec Moves to Rival HP

    IBM Exec Moves to Rival HP

    Sharon Linsenbach

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    Kevin Hooper, formerly IBM’s vice president of worldwide business partner strategy, will join Hewlett-Packard as general manager for Americas commercial SMB, according to HP. Sources said that Hooper will work with HP’s Technology Solutions Group Americas, which focuses on the direct sales channel, but will also work closely with solution providers that partner with TSG.… Read more