Recent Articles
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Printing: The Untapped Services Opportunity
Hewlett Packard announced its quarterly earnings this week and quickly analysts asked “what happened to the profit in printing?” The decline in HP printer revenue—the former cash cow of the company—and the struggles of printer vendors such as Xerox, Ricoh and Lexmark—as many financial analysts and reporters believe the green (money) is gone when it…
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Level Platforms Adds Microsoft Hosted Apps to Monitoring Dashboard
Level Platforms is making it easier for the channel to remotely monitor and manage both on-premises technology and managed services that are increasingly becoming part of customers’ IT environments. The company has launched the Managed Cloud Services program, which offers support for Microsoft hosted applications like the Business Productivity Online Suite that features Exchange Online,…
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Meraki Brings Wireless into the Cloud
Wireless networking provider Meraki has launched a breakthrough Enterprise Wireless local area network (LAN) product line that pushes wireless LAN capabilities into the cloud, allowing solution providers to offer wireless as a service to businesses of any size. The line consists of Meraki’s Enterprise Cloud Controller and two new high-performance 802.11n wireless access points (APs),…
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Small Businesses Launch With or Without Outside Funding
LONDON (Reuters) – Venture-capital investments have been falling in a depressed economy but this is not necessarily stifling technology start-ups, as it becomes easier to get firms off the ground without outside investment, Microsoft says. "With the advent of relatively cheap computing, relatively cheap bandwidth for communications, the cost of setting up a start-up has…
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Vembu to Partner with Caringo, ParaScale for Cloud Storage
Online backup software provider Vembu has unveiled a number of new partnerships with leading cloud storage providers, allowing solution providers incredible flexibility to offer online backup solutions to customers regardless of which cloud storage delivery platform they use. Vembu’s StorGrid Service Provider Edition of its StorGrid online backup software is tailored specifically for solution providers…