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Ruckus Seeks to Simplify Smart Mesh Wi-Fi Deployment
While your typical office that’s already wired for Ethernet may not be scrambling to get in on the first wave of 802.11n deployment, some vertical end customers may be good candidates for the new version of Wi-Fi technology. Ruckus Wireless, which introduced a channel program six months ago and now works with 200 VAR partners,…
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Boxed in by Green
It seems Dell has got its green strategy in a bit of muddle, according to a story on The Consumerist Web site. The story tells of one of Dell’s customers who ordered a Kingston 2MB flash memory stick. A fairly small item in most people’s opinion, and you would think fairly hardwearing, seeing as the…
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Crazy About Recruitment
Considering how hard most solution providers will tell you it is to find IT talent, they would be crazy to launch recruiting side businesses. Well, call them crazy, but a small group of solution providers in recent years has done just that. Though playing headhunter wasn’t exactly in their original business plans, these solution providers…
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Avnet Aims for Arrow with Horizon Acquisition
Horizon Technology Group has become Avnet’s latest acquisition, as the value-added distributor bolsters its market share in the United Kingdom against rival VAD Arrow’s established European footprint. Horizon Technology Group is an integrator and IT products distributor in the U.K. and Ireland that distributes enterprise server, storage, networking and security products from Sun Microsystems, EMC,…
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Is Web 2.0 the Future for the Enterprise?
According to Forrester Research, the floodgates for Web 2.0 products are about to open. Forrester claims that the major barrier for Web 2.0 to succeed in the enterprise is the corporate IT gatekeeper, who doesn’t want to let Web 2.0 technologies in the door. The research house attributes that resistance to corporate IT pros wary…