Recent Articles
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How to Fight Managed Services Commoditization
As distributors carve a role for themselves in the smoldering managed services space, some proponents of the model have reason to worry. Those proponents include the reasonably exclusive group of solution providers that since the turn of the millennium has negotiated the frustration and reaped the advantages of pioneering a business model. On the one…
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Report: CDW, Direct-Market Distributors Running on Strong Margins
Direct-market IT distributors such as CDW, Insight and PC Connection are outpacing their peers on the Nasdaq and S&P boards on strong margins and acquisitions, says a report by Raymond James and Associates. The distributors beat their market averages in growth during the third quarter but face challenges and slower growth in the next three…
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Iomega Unveils New Desktop Autoloader
Data storage and protection company Iomega has begun shipping the second-generation version of its popular desktop autoloader, which uses removable disks for data archiving. The REV Loader 560 incorporates standard hard drive components and removable technology, and provides access to 560GB of native storage. Up to eight removable disks can fit in the compact device,…
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Bin Laden Webmaster Arrested
Early Tuesday morning, reports started circulating that German police had arrested a man they had accused of being Osama bin Laden’s webmaster. It was at that moment that I realized how different a war this is and how the Internet—and particularly its multimedia-friendly Web component—has truly changed all.Imagine if during World War II, French law…
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War Robots Invade Washington
WASHINGTON—You know you’re visiting a different kind of trade show when the signs for the new GUI on a product refer to an automatic weapon. You get a better idea when you find yourself standing beneath the main gun of the new Stryker mobile weapons system. But it really hits home when you visit the…
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Oracle Settles Lawsuit with Federal Government
Oracle has agreed to pay $98.5 million to settle a lawsuit that claimed PeopleSoft overcharged the federal government for software it purchased during an eight-year period, the Department of Justice announced Oct. 10. The lawsuit, which was filed in federal court in Maryland, claimed that the GSA (General Services Administration) overpaid for PeopleSoft software from…
