Recent Articles
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Is OpenXML for Real?
I was pretty impressed when, just before Thanksgiving, I came across a Financial Times article reporting that Microsoft was pledging to open up the specifications for its Office file formats, although those specs wouldn’t be available for 18 months or so. That story wasn’t quite right, but, in the Financial Times’ reporter’s defense, neither was…
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IBM’s Autonomics Cut Corners, Cash from IT Budgets
The latest product line out of IBM’s Tivoli division is designed to bring self managing IT to the business masses, freeing resources and cash for use elsewhere in the channel, IBM executives said. Three new Tivoli software packages, released this week, are designed to automatically identify and respond to situations defined by the user. IBM…
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Toronto Firm Handles Backup, Recovery over Web
Murray Smith was in the middle of a client presentation when the hard drive in his laptop failed. He took the machine to a local repair shop and learned the data he lost could not be retrieved. Smith, the co-founder and CEO of business consulting firm OneCoach, San Diego, bought a new laptop and contacted…
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SMB Council Offers HP Its 2 Cents
Hewlett-Packard Co., last month, launched an advisory council of its small and midsize business resellers to help guide its route to the SMB market and its relationships with its 15,000 partners in the space. Eighteen of the hardware vendor’s SMB resellers will serve as a channel of dialogue between HP decision makers and VARs, helping…
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iSCSI Gets Another Look
A year ago, channel executives described iSCSI as a technology in its infancy—an interesting storage approach but one that wasn’t getting too far with resellers. But as 2005 draws to a close, iSCSI’s standing has changed dramatically. The fast-growing technology is now considered a viable option for storage networking as opposed to a theoretical possibility.…
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Gateway Makes Indirect Commercial Sales a Priority
Gateway Inc. announced plans Wednesday to realign its commercial sales team to support channel sales as the equal of direct sales. The commercial sales team will be collapsed into the public sector team in January, and follow a track that has proven effective at sparking channel sales in that sector for several years: equal compensation…
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