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Surviving the Coming Economic Recession
These are not good days on Wall Street. The global financial capital is suffering one of its worst retreats under the pressure of massive subprime mortgage write-offs, rising energy costs and slowing consumer spending. From his corner office in a lower Manhattan high-rise, Lester Pierre has a prime view of the gathering economic storm clouds.…
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Microsoft`s Pie in the Sky Play with SkyDrive
Although it’s a little late to the game, Microsoft’s free hosted storage service entered the market with a lot of noise. After all, the company is giving 5GB of storage away for free to any Tom, Dick or Sally and consumers are ready to gobble up that storage. But, is there anything new here? Other…
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Avnet Offers Fix for Storage Sprawl
Avnet Technology Solutions has created a bundled storage solution designed to help VARs improve storage efficiency for their customers. The operating group of distributor Avnet created the inline data deduplication solution with the midmarket customer in mind, from components from Sun Microsystems and Diligent Technologies. The solution is designed to help find duplicated data in…
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Microsoft Says New Server Family `Essential` for Midmarket
Microsoft has unveiled details of its Essential Server family of products, including Essential Business Server targeted specifically for the midmarket, which it says will help partners earn recurring revenue through services and spur customer upgrades. The Essential Server Family, based on Windows Server 2008 Standard, includes Microsoft Small Business Server ( SBS) 2008 and Microsoft…
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Resellers Gain Sales After Oracle Partner Fee Waiver
Six months after it removed the partner requirement for reselling its products, Oracle is declaring the action to be a success. Oracle made the change—allowing sales through distribution via the Oracle VAD Remarketer program—so that resellers that did not want to pay the fees associated with being an Oracle partner could still resell the company’s…
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Postini Pricing Drives VARs to Other Vendors
Postini competitors Proofpoint and MX Logic are seeing an influx of former Postini partners looking to join their channel programs. Google announced it was reorganizing Postini’s e-mail messaging security products Feb. 5. It also announced that it was reducing prices for some of those offerings by as much as 90 percent, and to as little as…
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