Year: 2008
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Tech Reacts to the Nightmare on Wall Street
Categories: News and TrendsCHANNEL INSIDER: IT Solution Providers and the Finance Crisis Wall Street Meltdown: What Does it Mean for IT? A failed bailout plan, Wall Street bleeding more than $1 trillion in value, and no idea of what’s going to happen next. Recent events have given businesses, consumers and government a giant hangover. Some IT… Read more
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Intuit Turns to Online Features to Keep QuickBooks on the Desktop
Accounting is the bedrock of any business and it takes good accounting to build a good business. For years, SMBs have turned to Intuit’s QuickBooks to keep finances under control. And, despite Intuit’s direct-sales history, solution providers are often the ones sourcing, installing and supporting QuickBooks in SMB environment. The accounting and finance application market… Read more
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Going Nordic: Exploring Managed Services, Hosting Opportunities in Scandinavia
Imagine the map on the wall, close your eyes and point to a spot on the map. As a solution provider looking for new markets, if your index happens to fall on Scandinavia, you might be on to something. You see, the Scandinavian countries of Sweden, Norway, Denmark and Finland, also often referred to as… Read more
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SolarWinds Redefines Network Configuration Management
Network and IT infrastructure is getting more complex by the day. System administrators are constantly battling the demons of change management and performance degradation. SolarWinds’ latest release, Orion NCM 5.0, gives solution providers a powerful tool that will help their customers achieve network management nirvana. Orion NCM promises to bring network device-configuration control to networks… Read more
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As Stock Market Plummets, Tech Gets Pounded
Categories: News and TrendsMonday, Sept. 29, 2008, will go down in the record books as one of the worst trading days in the history of the U.S. stock market. After the House of Representative failed to pass the massive $700 billion financial system bailout package, investors pulled their money out of the market by the billions of dollars.… Read more
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Inside the Mind of the Midmarket IT Executive
Categories: News and TrendsCHANNEL INSIDER: Inside the Mind of the Midmarket IT Executive Inside the Mind of the Midmarket IT Executive IT vendors have long recognized the potential value of midmarket customers. Most agree that the best way to reach these customers is through channel partners, VARs, resellers, IT consultants and solution providers. But in order to win… Read more