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CDW’s ‘Blowout’ March
Direct reseller CDW blew through previous month-month sales records, reporting $696 million in revenue for March 2007, up 19 percent from the previous March, the company said in a statement released yesterday to analysts. Average daily hit $31.6 billion in March, up 24.6 percent over March 2006, when the company averaged $25.4 million, said the…
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Report: CIOs, Stop Squandering Your Time
To add more value to their work, CIOs should stop defining services in technical rather than business terms and should spend less time policing budget priorities, business research firm Gartner advised in a report released April 5. Most CIOs surveyed for the report said they were often stretched too thin between delivering on new enterprise…
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SMBs Get Storage Package for Microsoft Exchange
Data storage vendor NetApp and e-mail management appliance maker Azaleos announced April 12 that they have united to provide a new enterprise-class messaging hardware/software package for SMBs that use Microsoft Exchange servers. Azaleos’ OneServer2 appliance and OneStop managed services basically separate the flow of e-mail from the storage apparatus and act like a traffic cop…
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Adaptec Soups Up Snap Server Partner Program
Storage vendor Adaptec is upgrading its Snap Server channel partner program in North America to include deal registration, customized marketing tools and lead-sharing, the company has announced. The Milpitas, Calif., company launched the program on April 12, following what the storage vendor said was a complete refresh of the entire Snap Server product line, from…
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How are Your Business Skills?
A surprising number of tech professionals are insecure about their business skills, concerned that they don’t have the necessary career skills to make the leap from the cubicle to a corner office, finds a monthly outlook on the IT job market released April 10 by technology careers site Dice. Thirty-five percent of IT professionals responded…
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HP Rolls Out Enhanced ‘All-in-One’ Storage System for SMBs
This will come as no surprise to anybody following the data storage market: Hewlett-Packard is focusing a substantial corporate effort to win the small-to-medium business sector over to its new, simplified products. Part of the reason for this concerted SMB campaign, analysts surmise, may be that HP is slowly but surely losing market share to…
