Year: 2010

  • Spiceworks Updates Free IT Management Application

    Nathan Eddy

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    IT management specialist Spiceworks, Inc. announced the availability of the fifth generation of its free social IT management software application, with new features including the ability to monitor and manage applications, devices and cloud services based on the people who use them within the organization; advanced network configuration management capabilities; and a centralized help desk… Read more

  • IT Spending, Budgets to Remain Slow Growing, Gartner

    Channel Insider Staff

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    (Reuters) – Global enterprise spending on information technology should increase 3.1 percent in 2011, industry tracker Gartner said on Monday, as it predicted "timid" growth over the next five years. Gartner forecast IT spending to rise to $2.5 trillion in 2011 and climb to $2.8 trillion in 2014, a gain of only 12 percent over… Read more

  • Software as a Service/Hosted Applications

    Software as a Service/Hosted Applications

    Ericka Chickowski

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    Software as a Service/Hosted Applications Around 58 percent of organizations outsource at least a small part of their application portfolio through a vendor using the SaaS model. Application Development About 51 percent of organizations outsource the development of new systems or enhancement of existing systems to service providers. Website/e-Commerce Systems Roughly 43 percent of organizations… Read more

  • EMC, Isilon in Acquisition Talks, Report

    Channel Insider Staff

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    Oct 18 (Reuters) – EMC Corp (NYSE:EMC), the world’s biggest maker of corporate data storage equipment, is in exclusive talks to buy computer storage company Isilon Systems Inc (NASDAQ:ISLN) for more than $2 billion, the New York Post reported on Monday. The report quoted an unnamed source as saying the deal would be done this… Read more

  • Synnex Offers Reseller App for iPhone, Android, BlackBerry, WebOS

    Channel Insider Staff

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    Looking to access product information, pricing, availability and even place orders from your smartphone while you are visiting customer sites? Synnex has introduced a mobile application for its e-commerce website, ECExpress, for use on Android, iPhone, Blackberry and HP Palm WebOS mobile devices in the United States and Canada. The mobile app lets Synnex resellers… Read more

  • It Wont Be A Modem

    It Wont Be A Modem

    Don Reisinger

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    It Wont Be A Modem When the RIM PlayBook ships early next year, it won’t double as a 3G modem the way current BlackBerry smartphones do. In other words, folks hoping to connect to a 3G network on their laptops through the tablet are out of luck. Of course, there is one good reason for that:… Read more