Recent Articles
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Green Leadership: Vendors Leading the Eco-Friendly Charge
Oil prices may be plummeting, but it won’t last forever. If the energy shock in recent years has taught us anything it’s that conservation is good for both the environment and business. These tech vendors are leading the charge in making the earth greener and more efficient.
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Tech Stocks Hemorrhaged Value in 2008
Wall Street closed out 2008 with a 100-point gain, but nothing could save technology stocks. In 2008, the leading technology vendors saw double-digit losses, with 30 percent of the companies seeing losses greater than 51 percent. Nortel (NYSE: NT) has watched its stock drop from $14.95 to $0.26 in the last 12 months and is on…
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Debuting the New Channel Insider
New Year’s is always a period of change. We make resolutions to better ourselves, plans to grow our businesses and goals for the future. Change is often for the better. As we turn the calendar to start 2009, Channel Insider is making a change for the better: a new look and design for our Web…
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Managed Services Success Still a Big Challenge
As the managed services market matures, some solution providers still struggle with how to transform their business to a fixed-fee model. Managed services experts and solution providers say the primary problem is cultural, rather than technical. It’s about people and old habits that die hard. It’s about sales representatives trying to protect their turf and…
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Coming Soon: Managed Services for iPhones
In just 18 months since its debut, the Apple iPhone commands the third largest market share for smartphones in the North American market. In 2008, the number of iPhone users soared more than 325 percent, and an increasing number of people are turning in their BlackBerry and Symbian-based devices in favor of Steve Jobs’ handheld…
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DataCore Delivers High-Availability SANs for SMBs
DataCore Software is going back to basics to help make high-availability SAN technology available to partners and their cash-strapped SMB customers. As storage technology standardizes across the industry and storage virtualization moves downmarket, SAN technology has become widely available for even SMBs, says James Price, vice president of channel and product marketing. But one of…