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A New Dell Direction: Is It the Right Course?
Tom Miller has been keeping a close eye on Dell for years. The senior director of IT for FoxHollow Technologies, a cardiovascular health products company in Redwood City, Calif., Miller has been a longtime Dell customer. His company of about 600 employees is standardized on Dell servers and PCs. And Miller has watched as Dell…
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EMC Plans On-Demand Storage Offering
ORLANDO, Fla.—According to CEO Joe Tucci, EMC plans to develop a storage service offering to penetrate the SMB market, where it has “relatively little share today.” Speaking in an interview with eWEEK editors here at the EMC World partner conference, Tucci would not reveal details of the planned offering, but said, “We’re way beyond planning.…
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SEC to Take Action Against Ingram Micro
Ingram Micro acknowledged May 21 that the Securities and Exchange Commission had issued it a “Wells Notice,” alerting the distributor that the SEC intends to take action against it for improper record-keeping related to Ingram Micro’s business with security vendor McAfee. The notice indicates that SEC staff intend to recommend that the SEC institute an…
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PayPal Seeks Partners
PayPal is not just for consumers anymore. The division of eBay is introducing a new partner program to help systems integrators win contracts to provide PayPal Express Checkout to their merchant customers. Under the new program, partners get integration-related technical support, integration best-practices information, and access to co-branded marketing materials in the form of templates…
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Dell’s Deals with Distributors
In all the buzz about direct-selling vendor Dell and its plans to finally make an honest partner out of the channel, one extremely significant fact has gone unmentioned: Dell already has a relationship with the IT industry’s largest distributors, Ingram Micro and Tech Data. The deal with Tech Data is reportedly worth several hundred million…
