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Will We Run Out of Storage?
Like the rising ocean tides expected with global warming, a creeping level of data could overcome the world’s storage capacity in the next few years, warns an analyst report. Even more worrisome to some will be the lack of comprehensible illustrative devices that will let us picture this growing level of storage. The origin of…
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Intuit Certification Program Hits Silver and Gold
Last October, Intuit recast its Intuit Developer Network developer program for its Quickbooks accounting software as a certification program, and retuned the company’s Quickbooks Solutions Marketplace site. The results since then have been a boon for Intuit and a major source of sales leads for software partners that have taken the plunge into the certification…
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Microsoft Rolls Out Key Development Tool Betas
REDMOND, Wash.— Within the next few days, Microsoft will release key development technology to help developers build applications across a variety of platforms, including the Web, desktops, servers and mobile devices. In an interview with eWEEK at the Microsoft campus here July 25, S. “Soma” Somasegar, corporate vice president of the developer division, said Microsoft…
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Data Center Management Is the Next Big Thing
Cisco’s signaling of its intentions to play a much bigger role in the management of data centers has a lot of implications for solution providers because of the nature of Cisco’s holistic approach to the opportunity. As part of a broad ranging Data Center 3.0 initiative that Cisco plans to build over the next three…
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Tech Data and Managed Services: Taking It Easy
While other distributors in the past year have claimed a stake in the managed services market, Tech Data continues to weigh what the distributor’s precise role in this new model should be. The Clearwater, Fla., company is the world’s second largest IT distributor, behind Ingram Micro Inc., of Santa Ana, Calif. The two rivals often…
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VAI, Berbee Partner on ERP Bundle
With industry giants like SAP pushing deeper into the enterprise resource planning midmarket, Vormittag Associates Inc. has moved to broaden its reach with smaller customers by partnering with Berbee Information Networks. The deal, inked on July 24, could potentially lead to VAI’s S2K software being distributed through CDW’s catalog, and as a hosted application for…
