Recent Articles
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New OnForce Head Aims to Be Service Arm of Direct Resellers
Peter Cannone, new CEO for OnForce, an IT services marketplace, aims to build out the company’s role as the services arm of national resellers such as CDW and his former employer PC Connection. The company will spend more time informing those direct resellers with nationwide coverage, most of which are adding services or considering the…
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Report: Specialized Skill Shortages to Swell IT Salaries
Driving up salaries for workers with the right mix of specialized skills, technology-based industries are expect to continue to face shortages of talent this year, and VARs could be hardest hit, according to market analysis released Jan. 3 by Philadelphia-based Yoh, a provider of outsourcing services. Yoh predicts that the tightest candidate markets will be…
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Credant to Encrypt GSA’s Laptops
Security software maker Credant announced Jan. 3 that it has won a deal to provide full-disk encryption technology for all laptops controlled by the U.S. General Services Administration, which could give the firm a leg-up in negotiations with other federal agencies looking for similar tools. Credant, based in Addison, Texas, said that the GSA awarded…
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HP, Tandberg to Team on Video Conferencing
Hewlett-Packard and Tandberg announced Jan. 3 that they have partnered up to bring users video conference platforms. With the announced alliance, users will be able to use HP’s Halo Collaboration Studios, which simulates face-to-face meetings across long distances, as well as Tandberg conference room and desktop based systems. As part of the agreement, HP, of…
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Amsterdam Mulls the Linux Desktop
Amsterdam has decided to give the Linux desktop and OpenOffice a try. In late December, the city—previously a Microsoft-only operation—announced plans to spend 300,000 Euros (roughly $400,000) on testing Linux and other open-source software in its housing department and in the Zeeburg borough office in 2007. According to the Dutch newspaper Trouw, Amsterdam, along with…
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Tandberg Completes Exabyte Acquisition, Joins Tape Storage Alliance
Digital tape storage maker Tandberg Data finalized its $28 million acquisition of Exabyte Jan. 3 and announced that it has integrated its former competitor’s VXA-2, VXA-172 and VXA-320 products into its tape drive and tape automation portfolio. Due to the Aug. 30, 2006, acquisition of essentially all of Exabyte’s intellectual property, Oslo, Norway-based Tandberg also…
