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  • Ingram Micro Expands BC/DR Services

    Hurricane Ike devastated the Texas coastline, leveling residential neighborhoods and ripping through the skyscrapers of downtown Houston. The more than $8 billion in damage could have been worse if the public, government and businesses didn’t take precautions against the worst-case scenarios. Disaster recovery and business continuity planning and execution are about preparing for the worse-case…

  • Symantec Needs to Focus on Relentless Execution

    Symantec has a problem, and it’s not the fact that channel chief Julie Parrish resigned to join NetApp a few days before the company’s channel event in Washington, D.C. Fortunately, the issues challenging Symantec are about the same that any major technology company experiences after going on a series of acquisition binges.   Right now,…

  • Head in the Clouds, Feet on the Ground

    The IT industry lately has had its head in the clouds. Not a day goes by that the term “cloud computing” doesn’t cross my screen or come out of somebody’s lips. But is all this talk about cloud computing just a lot of condensed air? Or is it really a new wind blowing us into…

  • Drupal IT Consultants Get Channel Program Option from Acquia

    With more and more businesses looking to climb on the Web 2.0 bandwagon, there’s got to be a lot of opportunity for IT solution providers who can bring the benefits of a Web 2.0 implementation to end-user companies. Looking to capitalize on that trend, Acquia has created a distribution of open source Web 2.0 platform…

  • Computer Sciences Sees Strong Deal Flow Despite Crisis

    By Devidutta Tripathy NEW DELHI, Oct 15 (Reuters) – Technology services provider Computer Sciences Corp (CSC) is seeing some delays in corporate decision making, but is confident of a strong deal pipeline and expects to be less affected by the global financial crisis than its competitors, its chief executive said on Wednesday. "What we are…

  • Report: PC Notebook Shipments Not as Brisk

    PC notebook shipment growth slackened off a bit in September, according to a new report by FBR Research based on the firm’s supply chain checks. The company said that the leading notebook makers reported September notebook shipments sprang back from a very weak August, but showed sequential monthly growth of 22.5 percent – softer than…

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