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Small Business Taking the Biggest Economic Hit
This may come as no surprise, but the small-business segment is feeling the biggest pinch in the current economic downturn. According to the Channel Insider 2009 Market Pulse survey, the small-business sector makes up 49.7 percent of respondents’ sales, and that same market is showing the greatest signs of a slowdown in IT spending, at…
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Financial Services, Retail Take Biggest Dives in IT Spending
Solution providers servicing the financial services, retail and SOHO sectors may want to expand their reach in 2009. Those three verticals took the biggest dive in IT spending in 2008, according to the Channel Insider 2009 Market Pulse survey. The survey queried solution providers on myriad business challenges including revenues and profits, pricing and vendor…
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IBM Tightens Partner Certification Requirements
IBM this week quietly announced it will soon require partners meet more stringent certification requirements to resell a number of products in its software group. The move comes as a result of customers demand of higher skill levels from solution providers delivering solutions around Big Blue’s Websphere, Tivoli, Rational database and Lotus offerings, among others,…
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Recession Changing Channel Relationships
Recession Changing Channel Relationships The recession is taking a toll on vendor and distributor revenues. According to the Channel Insider 2009 Market Pulse survey, here’s how solution providers think the recession will change their relationship with vendors and distributors over the next 12 months. No Title 66 percent of solution proviers expect vendors and distributors…
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Solution Providers Say Vendors, Distributors Less Supportive
Vendors and distributors may say they are outstretching a friendly hand in this down economy, but IT solution providers paint a different picture. Participants in the Channel Insider 2009 Market Pulse survey say vendors and distributors are now more likely to charge for services that previously were free and more likely to switch up credit…
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The Toshiba Portege R600: Executive Jewelry?
To be a contender in the ultraportable market, one has to design a notebook computer that’s lightweight, powerful, feature rich and long battery life. Toshiba has accomplished that time and again with its Portege ultraportable notebooks. The latest model, the R600, is no exception. But, over the last year the market has changed – more…
