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Intel Corp. Ultrabooks to Premiere By End of 2011
A new category of thin and light mobile computers in the sub $1,000 price range called Ultrabooks will grab 40 percent of the consumer laptop market by the end of 2012, according to Intel Corp’s Sean Maloney, executive vice president. Maloney was speaking at the Computex Taipei 2011 event in Taiwan, calling these new Ultrabooks…
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Cloud Services: Who Owns The Customer?
As the proliferation of cloud services continues and more channel partners are getting into reselling the services of others, there’s a big question mark forming, and there’s no real answer yet: Who owns the customer? In a traditional hardware or software resale deal, resellers make their money off of resale margins, hopefully followed by service…
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Vendor Loyalty in the Cloud Up for Grabs
The cloud is about to seriously test the loyalty of IT vendors’ channel partners. In a cloud-centric world, brand has far less cachet than the sum of the aggregate parts that make up a solution provider’s cloud offerings. So, vendors beware. If your technology falls short, your communication is poor or your channel program is…
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SMBs Want Remote Access, On-Premises Backup: Survey
A new survey on storage priorities for small and midsize businesses has found that most SMBs (68 percent of those participating in the survey) have one or fewer persons dedicated to IT, while 99 percent say they will not move 100 percent of their storage to the cloud. In the survey of data storage specialist…
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Dell, SAP Partner on Cloud, In-Memory Computing
A recently announced deal between longtime partners Dell and SAP involving a new in-memory application and storage appliance could turn out to be a significant landmark in the data center business. As a result of this partnership, announced last week at SAP’s Sapphire conference in Orlando, Fla., SAP’s customers will be able to deploy their…
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Exchange Host Intermedia Gets New Owner, CEO
Microsoft Exchange hosting giant Intermedia is going the way of private equity. Oak Hill Capital Partners announced it will acquire Intermedia and appoint former Savvis CEO Phil Koen as chairman and CEO of the New York-based hosting firm which just rolled out a cloud-based backup service this spring. “We are proud to have built this…