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Dell Aims to Outpace Industry, Sees Uncertainty
By Fang Yan and Helen Ding SHANGHAI, Oct 22 (Reuters) – Dell (DELL), the world’s second-biggest computer maker, expects to grow faster than the industry this year but its CEO added it is hard to say whether the global PC market will improve heading into the year-end. While slashing jobs, the company, which made nine…
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EMC Gives Weak Outlook, Sees Slower Tech Spending
By Jim Finkle BOSTON, Oct 22 (Reuters) – EMC Corp (EMC) forecast earnings for the current quarter at the low end of Wall Street expectations as the world’s top corporate storage equipment maker faced slower spending on information technology. But shares rose 7 percent on relief that the news wasn’t worse and also by stronger-than-expected…
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IBM Global Financing Sweetens the Credit Pot for Technology Purchases
Looking to ease concerns over technology financing availability and make credit available for IT purchases at a time when companies are tightening their budgets, IBM Global Financing was set to announce a lease financing program on Thursday. The captive finance arm of IBM will announce its "Why Wait?" technology financing offer, which provides 90-day interest-free…
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Remember This Name: Tata
If you don’t know anything about Tata Communications or Tata Consultancy Services, that is about to change. If you’re in managed services, unified communications, network integration or content delivery, you may cross paths with either or both in the near future. And when you do, it will be either as a competitor or a partner.…
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Cloud Computing in the Channel
Everywhere you go these days someone is talking up the merits of cloud computing. But upon closer examination it becomes pretty clear that cloud computing is pretty much little more than a variation of the traditional hosted computing model. Instead of paying for a dedicated set of servers to run an application, the cloud computing…
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Report: IBM Global Financing on Solid Ground
In the aftermath of the recent financial crisis, providers of credit and financing for technology purchases – distributors and the finance arms of technology vendors — have said that in spite of what’s going on elsewhere it’s still business as usual when it comes to providing credit for IT deals. Click here to read breaking…