Recent Articles
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D&H: SMB Servers, Unified Communications Will Drive 2008
Mobility, unified communications and expanding small and midsize businesses server capabilities will be the major growth areas of 2008, according to D&H Distributing. Trends that grew more slowly in 2007 such as color laser printing and projectors will also experience growth in 2008, the distributor said. Opportunities for VARs to sell SMB server, mobility and…
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Windows Vista SP1 to Disable Activation Exploits
Microsoft will use the upcoming release of Windows Vista Service Pack 1 to disable the two most widely used exploits of the operating system’s activation process, as well as do away with the system that reduces access to features and functionality for those users with counterfeit or nonvalidated software. The Vista SP1 update will make…
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Channel Braces for Economic Slowdown
Solution providers are bracing for a general tightening of IT spending budgets, but those delivering managed services say they have some immunity against a possible economic slowdown in the coming year. Managed services contracts with customers generate recurring fees for solution providers, which they say guarantees that at least some of their business should remain…
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EMC’s New Tech Directions
EMC has evolved from a storage-oriented business to a company that’s worth more than $11 billion, and has grown and acquired its way to a leardership slot in the storage, protection and distribution of data. At a press and analyst conference held in late November in Cambridge, Mass., company executives outlined a range of new…
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Avnet: Partners Need to Go Cutting Edge
Avnet is encouraging channel partners to take chances on cutting-edge technologies and emerging markets before these markets become overrun by direct-business models. At Avnet’s Hewlett-Packard partner summit Nov. 28, the company’s president of global services, John Paget, told partners in his keynote speech that instead of “building business around the 5 percent of what is…
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Bell Micro to Launch Security Division
Bell Micro is branching out from its storage roots by opening a security and surveillance division in the United States. The distributor opened its U.K. security division four years ago, which is run by Duncan Hume, security division director. Hume is now relocating to the U.S. and hopes to replicate the U.K. success in the…
