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Distributor Avnet Launches IBM Blade Initiative
Distributor Avnet Partner Solutions this week launched a blade server initiative with an eye to boosting sales of IBM blades to the upper end of the small and midsized business market. Avnet’s blade program, called BladeCentral for IBM, is designed to give VARs and integrators a quick entrée into a fast-growing market. Included in the…
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Use What You Sell
About 10 years or so ago, IBM executives started repeating the phrase, “Use what you sell.” The idea, of course, was to project the notion that IBM wasn’t just foisting its technology on other businesses—Big Blue was an active user too. Some industry wags came up with a more vivid (and less appetizing) metaphor to…
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NetEx Recruits VARs for Data Acceleration Technology
Earlier this month, the mammoth financial services company Citigroup had to make the embarrassing admission it was missing a backup tape with confidential records of almost 4 million people. The tape, containing Social Security numbers and customer transaction histories, seems to have disappeared from a UPS truck on May 2, according to Citigroup. Proponents of…
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Big Issues Facing Little Enterprises
For small and midsize businesses, everything comes down to productivity, efficiency and the bottom line. This specifically rings true for technology adoption. SMBs are the backbone of today’s economy. Through technology innovation and advancements, these businesses have been able to break down some of the invisible lines between themselves and Fortune-level corporations. They appear bigger…
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CA Knows What It Is and What It Isn’t
Over the course of my 15-year editorial career, I have met with a lot of companies that have gone through reorganizations, mergers, acquisitions, strategy shifts and a host of other changes. Buzz words such as “focus on core competencies,” “getting back to business” and “increase our value proposition” have constantly been thrown around to explain…
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Online Scams, Browser-Based Attacks Soar
Despite organizations spending billions of dollars on solutions designed to protect their Internet communications and e-commerce applications, the number of browser-based attacks and phishing scams continue to soar, according to IT trade association CompTIA. Almost 57 percent of about 500 organizations surveyed reported suffering a browser-based attack in 2004, the Oakbrook Terrace, Ill.-based group reported.…
