Jessica Davis

A year ago small and midsize business specialist distributor D&H Distributing, like everyone else, was feeling a bit of a pinch from the Wall Street meltdown, credit crunch and yet-to-be-officially-confirmed recession. Sales were flat year over year, a noticeable change from the normal seasonality, which tends to be a 10 percent growth for October and […]

Dell revenue climbed sequentially to $12.9 billion for the third quarter, but did not meet analysts’ consensus predictions as shipments stayed flat sequentially and down 5 percent from the same period a year ago, the company reports Nov. 19. Revenue climbed 1 percent sequentially and fell 15 percent from the same period a year ago. […]

5 Smart Phones for Business Even as sales of so many enterprise technologies declined in 2009, smart phone sales continued to climb, growing 13 percent in the third quarter of 2009 alone. And where BlackBerry had reigned, other devices have started to infiltrate the enterprise.That’s not such a bad thing. As one solution provider points […]

Polycom has signed a three-year agreement with BT Group that the companies say will accelerate the growth of unified conferencing systems—including video conferencing—within enterprises around the world by offering unified communications as a managed services offering. The announcement comes on the heels of a video conferencing mergers and acquisition market that’s been red hot lately. […]

As software as a service has risen to gain the attention of more business customers and solution providers, plenty of service providers have cropped up with offerings that solution providers could private-label to their customers. Hosting provider Rackspace has been no exception, rolling out a hosted e-mail service and then a hosted Microsoft Exchange service. […]

While EMC’s biggest news in the deduplication arena may have been around its acquisition of Data Domain earlier this year, that doesn’t mean that the storage and security giant has stopped progress on its other deduplication technology. EMC is expanding its Avamar software—designed as backup software for servers in the enterprise, to officially support desktops […]

Cisco Systems has sweetened its offer to Tandberg shareholders in its continuing effort to acquire the video conferencing company. The new offer by Cisco is to purchase all outstanding shares of Tandberg for 170 Norwegian kroner per share for an aggregate purchase price of approximately $3.4 billion, Cisco said in a statement. Cisco’s original offer […]

Solution providers looking to support mobility and mobile phones such as BlackBerry and Treo as a part of their practice have been noticing something different lately. The realm once ruled by BlackBerry has been infiltrated by a young upstart—the Apple iPhone. During Apple’s most recent earnings call, company executives told analysts that iPhones were being […]

Server vendors are at the ready as 2010 approaches, awaiting what could be a significant refresh of server hardware. Hewlett-Packard, Dell, IBM and even Cisco Systems have introduced new server hardware as the new year approaches. That’s because some IT organizations have used virtualization as a tactic to postpone server hardware upgrades during the recession. […]

Looking for the hot application for the next decade? The one that could differentiate your company? Think video. At least if you believe Logitech and Cisco, which have both announced major acquisitions designed to make them into bigger players in the quickly growing market for HD video conferencing. “Video is the killer app for the […]

Strong growth in China drove Hewlett-Packard‘s revenue up sequentially for its fiscal fourth quarter. The technology giant announced revenue of $30.8 billion, down 8 percent from the previous year but up 12 percent sequentially. Earnings per share were 99 cents compared with 84 cents for the same period a year ago. HP announced the preliminary […]

Looking to create a “networking industry powerhouse” and up the ante in its growing rivalry with Cisco, Hewlett-Packard (NYSE:HPQ) has announced it will acquire networking vendor 3Com (NASDAQ: COMS) in a stock deal estimated to be worth about $2.7 billion. HP says the acquisition of 3Com, a provider of network switching, routing and security solutions, […]