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Using Credit to Boost Sales: Where Solution Providers Can Go for Help
CHANNEL INSIDER: Use Financing to Boost Sales — The Players By Jessica Davis If you balk at the idea of offering financing because it doesn’t seem worth the complexity or time commitment, you may want to reconsider. Programs available through a variety of technology specialty financing organizations and IT distributors make it quick and…
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Avocent Delivers New Kilowatt-Killing Technology
In today’s world of spiraling energy costs, CIOs are looking to squeeze every kilowatt out of the data center and minimize the power footprint of every desktop PC, creating an almost insurmountable challenge to solution providers and the systems administrators they support. While energy savings may start with common-sense policies, those policies are often difficult…
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After Wall Street Meltdown, Is Smaller Better?
Ah, mega mergers. Wall Street has been in love with them for decades. We’ve seen HP gobble up Compaq, Time Warner wed AOL (That worked out well, didn’t it?) and Bank of America swallow Fleet Bank after Fleet had barely digested BankBoston, which had resulted from the merger of Bank of Boston and Baybank. Now…
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Feds Get Tough on Cybersecurity Weaknesses
The federal government is taking steps to toughen up the nation’s cybersecurity defenses by establishing new policies and an oversight group to direct security efforts and cut wasteful spending. According to a report in eWeek, the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee has approved legislation designed to give federal department CIOs more authority…
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Oracle, HP Team Up on Data Warehousing Hardware
Oracle is taking a hard stance against data warehouse competitors Teradata and Netezza by teaming up with Hewlett-Packard to market an integrated hardware database appliance. Unveiled at Oracle World this week, the HP Oracle Database Machine’s Exadata Storage Server supports up to 12 terabytes of raw storage data and leverages InfiniBand connectivity. Oracle CEO Charles…
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Toshiba Adds 128 GB of SSD Storage to the Portege Product Line
When a small PC demands a big price, something interesting must be going on. In Toshiba’s case, the small notebook is the Portege R500-S5007V, and the price is $3,000. At just 2.4 pounds, the R500 is one of the lightest machines to grace the market, especially when one considers that the Portege is a two-spindle…
