Recent Articles
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Tough Times, Measured Action
The dawn of the Obama era and the infusion of hundreds of billions of dollars in stimulus funds are not enough to clear the economic storm clouds gathered over North America. Here’s the gruesome tale of the tape: Since the beginning of the New Year, the U.S. economy alone has shed nearly 600,000 jobs. Gross…
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Cisco Pads Router, Switch Profitability with Rebates
After announcing stinging drops in hardware sales in January, Cisco Systems is relaunching rebate incentives designed to stimulate solution provider sales of routers, switches and core networking equipment. Under the plan originally unveiled in December 2008, solution providers that close sales on routers will receive a 5 percent rebate and sales on switches will receive…
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Vendors You Can Count On
Vendors You Can Count On Channel Insider asked solution providers which vendors would provide the most support and stability during the recession. Based on the survey responses, the following vendors are ranked as the ones solution providers can count on to help them through a recession. 10. Oracle Changing channel leadership in the past year…
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Time to Raise Security Game
One of the problems with setting up any kind of security practice these days is that it’s hard to really differentiate yourself. After all, just about anybody can claim to be a security expert these days, even if they don’t have anybody on staff that is actually certified by any recognized industry body. And even…
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Data Protection Vendor Sepaton`s Enterprise Focus Pays Off
Sepaton continues to thrive even as the global economy falters, proving that data protection solutions, including virtual tape libraries (VTL) and deduplication, remain a strong growth area for solution providers. Advanced data protection technologies such as data deduplication and VTLs are at the top of IT’s ‘must-have’ list for 2009, says Bob Iocono, COO of…
