Recent Articles
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Great Products Make for Great Vendors
Great channel programs and terrific salespeople don’t mean a thing in the channel if you don’t have the right kinds of products driving high-margin sales opportunities. And yet, many solution providers tend to base their analysis of what products are best to sell solely on the margin generated by the product itself rather than the…
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Intel Launches First Quad-core Storage Server
SAN DIEGO—Intel, joining an ever-growing crowd of companies touting data storage systems, introduced on April 16 at Storage Networking World here the industry’s first storage server to be based on quad-core processors. The new rack-mounted Intel Storage Server SSR212MC2 is powered by the quad-core Intel Xeon processor 5300 series and can be configured as a…
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The Other Side of Gov-Ed Money
PARENTAL WARNING: I’m about to get on a soapbox. It’s easy to forget when you’re in the channel or covering the channel as a reporter that the government is not an ATM machine. At conferences and vendor partner events, there is usually no shortage of sessions and programs designed to make more money from the…
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Dear Mr. Gates: Save Vista, Open-Source It
Although Microsoft may claim otherwise, Vista, from both from a technical and business point of view, is proving to be a failure. Why not turn it over to people who have shown time after time that they can deliver the goods? Let’s look at the facts, shall we? Microsoft claimed that more than 20 million…
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Linux Certification Debuts Amid Skills Shortage
The Linux Professional Institute has announced that a handful of individuals have received its LPIC-3 Core certification, the highest level of certification the organization currently offers. And it’s a certification that IT organizations are demanding, according to LPI President and CEO Jim Lacey, as work force development continues to rise on the list of concerns…
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Tax Tips for Techies
Haven’t done your taxes yet? You’re not alone. The IRS estimates that over 20 percent of taxpayers file their returns during the final two weeks of tax season, and while it hasn’t collected data on this, a shocking number probably file the weekend before. Nonetheless, you might want to get on it—you have until 11:59…
