Jessica Davis

Online IT services marketplace OnForce says that price stabilization and a rise in installation work in the most recent quarter could indicate positive changes in the economy. The change comes after price erosion punctuated previous quarters. “We’ve started to see pricing stabilize for the second quarter in a row,” says Maria Battaglia, senior vice president […]

While outsourcing may look as if it got a big boost in the third quarter, with total contract value 21 percent higher over Q2 and 40 percent higher year over year, a closer look reveals another trend may be responsible for the spike. Sourcing data and advisory giant TPI, which acts as a matchmaker between […]

It was the worst of times. Gartner says that IT spending experienced its worst year ever in 2009—worse even than in 2001—on pace to decline 5.2 percent for the year. And in the enterprise space specifically, things were even tougher with a decline in IT spending of 6.9 percent. But Gartner says the IT industry […]

IBM Global Financing has expanded its credit offers with a 90-day deferred payment and a 0 percent financing offer for IBM software purchases—an offer that comes just as overall credit markets may be starting to free up again. The financing arm of technology giant IBM says that the 90-day payment deferment is available on eligible […]

Looking to make more serious inroads into the midsize business market, Tandberg (OSL: TAA) has released a smaller-footprint, lower-priced HD telepresence system. The product release of Tandberg Telepresence T1 comes on the heels of Cisco’s (NASDAQ: CSCO) announcement earlier this month that it plans to acquire its video conferencing rival—a move viewed as an effort […]

IBM (NYSE: IBM) posted third quarter net income of $3.2 billion on total revenues of $23.6 billion.  Revenues climbed by 1 percent sequentially and increased 7 percent from the same period a year ago, while net income climbed by 14 percent. CFO Mark Loughridge told analysts during a conference call following the earnings announcement that […]

Maybe you are a managed service provider whose business has grown but who cannot get past a certain number of seats, no matter what you try in order to build the business. You gain a few customers here, but then you lose a few there. So what’s the secret? What do successful solution providers and […]

When IBM (NYSE: IBM) announces its third-quarter results today after market close, they will arrive in a market that is cautiously hoping that the positive signs it has seen recently are hinting of more good news to come. And analysts have been fueling that cautious optimism. For example, this morning Bernstein Research raised its forecast for […]

Oracle is taking its partner enablement initiative a step further with the announcement of about 50 different specializations for its channel partners, called Oracle PartnerNetwork Specialized. The goal? To create better ways for partners to differentiate themselves and to help end customers find highly skilled channel partners. Partners will find specializations available to them in […]

Five Hot Technology Gadgets Turning Heads in Hershey   No Title From NexAira, this new router lets users plug their wireless carrier laptop sticks into the router and provide Internet access to all the PCs in range of the router instead of just one. It comes in a consumer and business model, with the business […]

Brocade’s Rise to Storage and Networking Fame 1995 – Brocade Communications Systems founded. No Title 2000 – HP signs an OEM agreement with Brocade to resell its SilkWorm 2800 Fibre Channel fabric switch as the connectivity framework for the HP Open SAN Initiative. No Title 2003 – Brocade buys storage fabric switch maker Rhapsody Networks […]

What if the big PC refresh cycle that vendors are expecting in 2010 turns out to be a myth? Technology vendors are eagerly awaiting the launch of Microsoft Windows 7 in two weeks on Oct. 22 the way small children wait for Christmas. PC vendors, distributors and Intel have said that they expect the OS […]