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Dell Buys U.K. Storage Consultancy
Dell acquired Dec. 21 The Networked Storage Co., a storage consultancy firm based in the United Kingdom. The Networked Storage Co. provides IT and storage consultancy, and offers customers a service called Point of Proof, which provides an auditable process to evaluate and implement technology and IT infrastructure primarily around storage networks. According to the…
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Exchange 2007 SP1 Could Finally Spark Upgrades
Hosted Application provider GroupSpark is making Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 Service Pack 1 available to its partners today, hoping to capitalize on the ‘low-hanging fruit’ of customers who waited for the Service Pack’s release to upgrade. Ravi Agarwal, CEO of Burlington, Mass.-based GroupSpark and a Microsoft Gold partner, said his company’s channel partners were demanding…
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CDW: IT Decision Makers Concerned About Economy
Uncertainty in the U.S. economy is giving some IT decision makers pause when they ponder their plans for 2008. That’s according to a new bi-monthly survey by CDW. The direct market reseller created the survey, CDW IT Monitor, to measure the sentiments of the IT marketplace in the United States. CDW released the inaugural survey’s…
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Five Desktop Linux Highlights of 2007
Sometimes putting together a best-of-the-year list is like pulling teeth. There simply isn’t enough big news to fill the list out. That was not a problem for desktop Linux in 2007. This year was one of the most eventful years in desktop Linux’s short history. While Mac OS X remains the most successful of all…
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MSP Partners Opens Advisory Board to Competitors
Vendor-created organization MSP Partners has formed a new advisory board and announced its inaugural members are Autotask, ContractPC, Kaseya and Xerox. Cisco, Ingram Micro, Intel, Level Platforms and Microsoft founded the organization in March 2007 with a mission of providing a comprehensive source of MSP (managed services provider) education. Now, with the addition of an…
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Sun Finally Appoints European Chief
After five months of the position being vacant, Sun Microsystems has finally filled the role of senior vice president of Europe Middle East and Africa. Sun, which has had a tumultuous time of late in Europe, after losing its head of U.K. channel and its U.K. country manager within weeks of each other back in…
