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Kaplan: Managed Services Are Transforming the Market
IT trends such as managed services and software as a service have already disrupted the way the software industry does business and are also transforming the overall technology market. Customers’ expectations for IT services have shifted from remediation to prevention, according to Jeff Kaplan, managing director of analyst firm ThinkStrategies. No longer are customers calling…
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Vista Will Have Little Impact in 2007
The release of Microsoft’s Windows Vista operating system will have a limited impact on the number PCs shipped worldwide in 2007, according to a Gartner report released March 20. The Gartner report is calling for worldwide PC shipments to grow 10.5 percent this year to a total of 255.7 million units. Meanwhile, revenue is slated…
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SonicWall Adds Specialty Partner Categories
SonicWall Inc. has added new partner categories to its channel program to recognize partners that product sales services without onsite visits. The Sunnyvale, Calif.-based IT security vendor said it is adding two new categories, one for DMR (direct market resellers) such as CDW and Dell, which sell high volumes of a broad set of security…
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Intel Outlines Latest vPro Platform
Intel is gearing up to launch the newest platform for its vPro technology. The world’s largest maker of processors is preparing to launch its new vPro platform, which the company has dubbed “Weybridge,” by the second half of this year. This updated platform will still be based on Intel’s Core 2 Duo processor but it…
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Ingram’s ‘Seismic’ Attracts Interest, But Only Some Users
Ingram Micro’s “Seismic” Managed Services Platform and delivery program is attracting lots of interest from customers, but most are holding out for the distributor to open the Network Operations Center, slated for early in the second quarter of 2007, customers and Ingram officials said. The service, a hosted version of Level Platforms remote monitoring and…
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Study: Businesses Unprepared for Aging Work force
Despite reports that the United States is facing a shortage of millions of workers within the coming decade as baby boomers retire, The National Study of Business Strategy and Workforce Development found that many U.S. business are unprepared for the changing demographics. More than one quarter of U.S. business have failed to plan for the…
