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Recession Likely to Spur More Counterfeit Technology
As the economy continues its downward spiral, a crime of opportunity is becoming more prevalent in the IT marketplace through the sales of counterfeit IT products. “Piracy has always been around and the expectation is that it will increase,” said John Gunn, general manager at Aladdin North America, which develops software antipiracy solutions. Counterfeiting of…
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NetApp Discontinues SMB Storage Line
In tough economic times, it’s not unusual for vendors to reevaluate their product lines and eliminate those that aren’t performing well. But Network Appliance’s decision to kill off its StoreVault product, targeted to the SME market, is raising eyebrows across the industry, and opening up opportunities for the storage giant’s competition. The StoreVault product line…
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Shades of Green IT
There seems to be an increasing amount of nuance being applied to term "green IT" these days that appears to have more to do with the amount of green in the IT budget rather than how green IT is in terms of the environment. When you think about it, we have now gone through three…
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Troubled Lenovo Reports Loss, Appoints New CEO
Lenovo Group announced a net loss of $97 million for the quarter ended Dec. 31, down from net income of $172 million during the same period a year ago. The company cited continuing decreases in worldwide commercial PC shipments. Globally PC shipments dropped 5 percent and in China they dropped 7 percent for Lenovo. "In…
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Avaya Launches Service Specializations for Partners
Avaya is hoping its new group of services specializations will help its channel partners grow their customer reach and increase revenue. The Avaya Services Delivery Specialization (SDS) program, introduced this week, categorizes Avaya BusinessPartners and AlliancePartners by their level of expertise in implementation, maintenance support and application integration. “We’re actually calling it a specialization –…
