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Flash: Samsung Makes Play for SanDisk
A stalwart of the Silicon Valley storage market may soon be gone in a flash. SanDisk, the maker of flash memory cards for consumer and enterprise devises, is renewing talks with Samsung to be acquired for $5.85 billion. According to published reports, Samsung made the unsolicited offer in August. The initial overture was rejected by SanDisk…
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HP Software Reorganization Shuffles Executive Ranks
In the wake of news that it would lay off nearly 25,000 employees following the closed acquisition of EDS, Hewlett-Packard is now in the process of reorganizing and consolidating its software and consulting and integration unit. According to an internal memo obtained by Channel Insider, HP will announce next week a merger of HP Software…
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Solution Provider Turns to NASCAR to Rev UP Marketing
Donnie Downs, president of solution provider Plan B Technologies, didn’t think much of NASCAR racing. “I never thought I would be involved in NASCAR,” he recalls. “I considered it to be a redneck sport.” Things have changed. These days Plan B Technologies, a Bowie, Md., solution provider focused on networking, security and virtualization, is an…
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Dell, Ingram Micro Fuel Worries about Tech Spending
By Franklin Paul and Tiffany Wu NEW YORK (Reuters) – Two of the biggest computer vendors, Dell Inc (DELL) and Ingram Micro Inc (IM), warned on Tuesday that demand was weakening, adding to worries that the crisis on Wall Street would hurt corporate and consumer spending. While neither company mentioned the financial sector specifically, they…
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Dell Direct Managed Services Pricing, Customer Targets Undermine Partners
Dell’s expansion of its direct managed services offering to the New York metropolitan market may be the beginning of a betrayal that fractures the company’s relationship with its channel partners — after less than a year of trying to win them over. One of Dell’s PartnerOne advisory council members reports that during a Q&A session…
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HP to Cut 24,600 Jobs
By Eric Auchard SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Hewlett-Packard Co (HPQ) plans to cut 7.5 percent of its work force, or 24,600 jobs, seeking to realize savings from its recent acquisition of Electronic Data Systems Corp, the company said on Monday. HP said it would carry out the cutbacks over the next three years, while replacing…
