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CDW-G Survey: Unified Communications Gains Momentum
It has been touted for years as the Next Big Thing, yet unified communications has loped along virtually under the radar while it gathers fans and converts alike. Now a survey by CDW-G is proving unified communications’ momentum among certain verticals. CDW-G’s Unified Communications Tracking Poll, which surveyed 766 IT professionals who work on unified…
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ViewSonic Enters the PC Market
Computer monitor and display vendor ViewSonic has spruced up its channel partner program in preparation for a new line of products it plans to launch in April. The 100-percent channel company tells Channel Insider that it will launch a new line of all-in-one PCs in April – a 19-inch monitor with a built in Intel…
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NetApp Teams with Texas Memory Systems on Flash
Network Appliance has partnered with Texas Memory Systems to certify interoperability between its V-series open storage controller and TMS’ RamSan-500 solid-state disk, allowing solution providers to boost customers’ storage performance and simplify data management. "IT departments are under unprecedented pressure to boost performance and leverage their existing storage architecture," says Woody Hutsell, executive vice president…
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Managed Service Providers Find Strength in Numbers
When managed services started gaining momentum following the Y2K rush and dot-com bubble burst, solution providers that ventured into this new way of doing business were largely on their own. The pioneers met with different levels of success, and inevitably there were some false starts. Support was scarce and the vendors that had developed the…
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Cracking Open the Antivirus Market
Upon arriving last week in Puerto Rico, Kaspersky Lab CEO Eugene Kaspersky was picked up by a limo for the hour-long drive to the El Conquistador resort for his second Americas Partner Conference. At one point during the trip, his driver looked in the rearview mirror and asked, “Did you know there’s an antivirus company…