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Conducted over a four month period from January to April, IBM’s 2009 CIO Study included more than 2,500 face-to-face interviews that were combined with financial metrics and detailed statistical analysis. The report also highlights a number of recommendations ranging from strategic business actions and use of key technologies that IBM has identified that CIOs can […]

Vendors the likes of Cisco, Microsoft and IBM have been crooning about creating and enabling peer-to-peer partnerships for the past several years. What vendors say is that connecting local and regional solution providers with synergistic resources and capabilities is a means for enabling two businesses to grow together. Good theory, but exceedingly difficult to pull […]

(Reuters) – Google is disappointed with the lack of breakthrough investment ideas in the green technology sector but the company is working to develop its own new mirror technology that could reduce the cost of building solar thermal plants by a quarter or more. "We’ve been looking at very unusual materials for the mirrors both […]

(Reuters) – Steve Jobs stepped back into the spotlight for the first time in nearly a year on Wednesday, drawing a standing ovation before unveiling new and cheaper iPods for Apple Inc. But Apple’s shares closed 1 percent lower after hitting a year’s high in the session. Analysts said they dipped because investors took profits […]

Channel Insider, the leading source of channel intelligence and analysis, and HTG Peer Groups, the groundbreaking collaborative network of IT resellers and service providers, announced a collaborative partnership dubbed “Project Nimbus” to produce community-based guidance on cloud computing in the IT channel. Cloud computing, managed services, and hosted infrastructure and applications are rapidly transforming the […]

Like most of the rest of the technology industry, the hardcopy peripherals market has completed a brutal year, according to IDC’s latest numbers. Overall, the worldwide hardcopy peripherals market declined 21 percent year over year in 2Q09 to 24.1 million units. Shipment value declined 23.2 percent over the same time period to $11.6 billion. The […]

Intel has released more affordable versions of its Nehalem microarchitecture chips. Formerly codenamed “Lynnfield,” the new offerings consist of Intel Core i5 processor family, two new Intel Core i7 processors and the Intel Xeon processor 3400 series. They are significantly cheaper than last year’s initial Nehalem chips, the Core i7 900-series, and offer strong price/performance […]

SEATTLE (Reuters) – The U.S. Court of Appeals has granted Microsoft Corp’s request to stay an injunction imposed by a federal court that would have halted sales of some versions of its popular Word application.  In an order issued on Thursday, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit said Microsoft had met requirements […]

There’s been some controversy about the legitimacy of the desktop virtualization market, and even VMware CEO and president Paul Maritz said it’s more a journey than a destination. The company has more than a million desktops virtualized across 7,000 customers, but with more than 500 million desktops globally, that’s just a drop in the bucket. […]

Like most of the rest of the technology industry, the hardcopy peripherals market has completed a brutal year, according to IDC’s latest numbers. Overall, the worldwide hardcopy peripherals market declined 21 percent year over year in 2Q09 to 24.1 million units. Shipment value declined 23.2 per cent over the same time period to $11.6 billion. […]

The Computing Technology Industry Association has cancelled its Managed IT Services Summit scheduled for October 7 to 9, citing an oversaturation of managed services events and logistical challenges. The MITSS event, produced in partnership with MSP Partners, was billed as a business development event at which existing MSPs and solution providers interested in entering the […]

IDC’s Worldwide Quarterly Server Tracker recorded poor numbers in Q2. Factory revenue in the worldwide server market declined 30.1 percent year over year to $9.8 billion, the fourth consecutive quarter of revenue decline and the lowest quarterly server revenue since IDC began tracking the server market on a quarterly basis in 1996. Server unit shipments […]