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Google`s Grand Channel Designs
A little more than a decade ago, Larry Page and Sergey Brin set out to “organize” all the information online, making it more easily accessible than the hunt-and-peck Internet of the late 1990s. To support their grand Internet index, the Stanford grads developed an advertising business that had disrupted all of the traditional media models…
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HP Flexes Data Center Muscle with New Switch
Hewlett-Packard ProCurve is extended its adaptive network mantra into the data center with its first-ever line of switching platforms designed for the data center environment. “ProCurve is certainly no stranger to the data center environment – it has been deployed in data centers in the past,” said Matt Zanner, worldwide director of Data Center Networking…
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How To Sell Technology That Hasn’t Hit Customer Radar
A year into its new channel and sales strategy initiative, Palisade Systems has hit upon a winning technique that is helping resellers gain traction at end customers’ sites for a technology that is still not on the radar of many companies – a data loss prevention device. The sales technique has taken the company’s channel…
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Focusing on the Basics
This is surely a week that will go down in history. And probably not because of what you are thinking. Microsoft reported its first quarterly loss and its first-ever layoffs. Layoffs were announced in record numbers across all sectors and the Dow Jones Industrial Average dropped more than 300 points for the first time on…
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Compliance Complexity Creates Opportunities
There’s been a lot of chatter about the potential impact that the new Obama administration might have on government-funded IT projects. There’s no doubt that as the government moves forward on an impressive array of economic stimulus projects, large numbers of IT projects are sure to follow. For solution providers looking to the government to…
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Microprocessor Makers AMD and Intel Revenues Continue to Fall
Chipmaker Advanced Micro Devices (NYSE: AMD) reported lower than expected revenues and earnings this week, following a similar performance reported by larger rival Intel (NASDAQ: INTC) last week. AMD CEO Dirk Meyer told analysts that much of the decline could be attributed to computer makers looking to reduce their microprocessor inventories in anticipation of lower…
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