Recent Articles
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Cisco to Partners: Save to Invest
Cisco Systems and its solution provider partners are hoping a "save to invest" strategy will drive new revenues with innovative solutions that help end users create efficiencies and cut costs. Denny Trevett, Cisco’s director of operations, says solutions that partners found successful in the past aren’t as relevant in the current economy. “The same solutions…
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Solution Providers Feel Effects of Vendor Layoffs
If you’re wondering what affect the layoffs at large technology vendors will have on the channel, you only have to wait to find out, literally. As vendors trim their ranks, their ability to service and support their channel partners will diminish. Already, solution providers are reporting few channel account manager meetings and longer wait times…
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Dark Clouds Linger over Tech Stocks
As the Northeast and Midwest were pounded with cold and snow last week, technology stocks sat under a storm cloud. Nearly 7,500 technology jobs were eliminated by Motorola, AMD, Google, Seagate, Autodesk, NEC and Oracle. Networking giant Nortel filed for bankruptcy protection, Intel announced a 90 percent drop in its 2008 net profit. And Apple…
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The Network Effect
Every time there is a downturn one of the areas that suffers most is enterprise network equipment. This is because customers typically feel they can stretch the lifecycle of their network infrastructure pretty far, with some customers going as much as five years between upgrade cycles. But not all downturns are the same and, as…
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New Stimulus Plan May Help VARs
The Democrat-controlled House of Representatives unveiled a new stimulus package Thursday that included what could be the news technology manufacturers have been waiting to hear. More than $650 million dollars will be needed to assist in the transition to digital television broadcasts. The funds would be used to assist in paying for a coupon program…
