Recent Articles
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Symantec Extends Deal Registration Discounts
Symantec improved the terms of its opportunity registration, including extending the discounts from the program its Silver tier of partners. The extension of its deal registration is among several changes the company made recently to its partner program, all designed to further reward and provide incentives to its top tiers of partners. First, Symantec will…
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Learning To Love UAC
User Access Control in Windows Vista has been such a controversial development that it’s worth re-examining periodically. Let’s restate the purpose of UAC: It is to allow the user to run the system as a standard user, not administrator, and still have relatively easy access to privileged operations when they are necessary. UAC (click here…
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Intel Placing Big WiMax Bets
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Intel is investing heavily in WiMax in hopes of getting the networked world to switch to the super high-speed wireless technology within a few years, a senior executive said on Tuesday. "Intel is leading the charge," Arvind Sodhani, president of Intel Capital, the chip maker’s investment arm, said in an interview. "We’re…
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The Growing Clout of the Channel
Based on some of the latest data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics there are about 861,000 IT professionals working in the IT services space today. In total, some 1.4 million people work for IT services companies so a little more than half the people working for IT services companies are actually IT people. But…
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A Deeper Look at Services Pricing
It’s no secret that services are the gold that drives profitability in the channel. According to the Channel Insider 2008 Channel Outlook survey, more than half of solution providers’ revenue and profit comes from some form of service offering. What may come as a surprise is the value of VOIP and telephony services. The Channel…
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Savvis: We’ll Deliver SAP Within 6 Hours
When you’re rolling out SAP, time-to-deployment is measured in weeks if not months, right? That may be true now, but by the end of the year, hosted infrastructure and software provider Savvis claims it will be able to give system integrators and service providers SAP Business All-In-One solutions within just 6 hours. "Because of exclusive…