Recent Articles
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Iomega to Offer Managed E-Mail Security
Iomega got on the map through the Zip drives that over the years became a part of numerous IT environments, but the vendor is working hard to transform itself into more than the "Zip drive company." On Tuesday, the San Diego-based vendor launched an e-mail security managed service in partnership with Postini, of San Carlos,…
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This Isn’t Your Father’s IBM
ORLANDO, Fla.—Though IBM is often viewed as a stodgy old technology giant focused primarily on delivering old-school solutions for big, plodding enterprises, the company continues to churn out new ideas and technologies that many never see. When I think IBM, I typically think mainframe, COBOL, CICS, SOA (service-oriented architecture), Web services, Java middleware and Linux.…
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Hosted Apps Pick Up Steam
With major it players such as Cisco Systems and Google hard at work building productivity application beachheads on the Web, now is a good time for enterprises to evaluate the benefits of and drawbacks to deploying hosted office tools such as e-mail, instant messaging, calendars, documents, spreadsheets and databases in their infrastructure. Cisco, which picked…
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Partnering Pays
VARs that work together make more money. That’s according to a new survey of members of the International Association of Microsoft Certified Partners, conducted by market research firm IDC, that looked at partner-to-partner collaborations and found a key trend among VARs growing revenue—they collaborate. “There’s a whole body of research around network theory, and Metcalfe’s…
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VARs, It’s Time to Modernize
It seems just about every week I get a pitch in my inbox for a new or improved tool to help VARs and integrators do their business better. This is worthy of notice because it wasn’t too long ago that channel companies by and large were suffering from the cobbler’s children syndrome. While they were…
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Ingram Micro Buys Consumer Electronics Player
Ingram Micro signed a $96 million deal to acquire part of DBL Distributing Inc., a U.S. consumer electronics distributor. The IT technology distribution giant said the acquisition marked another step forward in its consumer electronics strategy and another sign the space between consumer and commercial technologies is thinning. “This strategy positions Ingram Micro at the…
