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Midmarket Retail Tech Investments Soar Worldwide
Global retail IT spending among midmarket companies is expected to sharply increase in the next few years, from about $22 billion last year to almost $31 billion by 2009, an almost 41 percent increase, according to a new report from technology analysis firm AMI Partners. AMI Partners Inc. defined the midmarket retailer as one with…
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Virtualization Becomes Real Opportunity
In 2002 and 2003 virtualization was so hot a concept that it was hard to imagine that, within two or three years, IT resources would be managed any other way. The idea seemed to make sense: turn physical IT devices into logical resource pools that could be dynamically assigned to applications and users. Well before…
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Ingram Micro Cuts Costs Despite Profits
When Greg Spierkel took over as chief executive of the world’s largest IT products distributor June 1, he inherited a company that was already undergoing dramatic changes. For the first time, Ingram Micro Inc. is outsourcing some job functions overseas. The $25 billion distribution giant is also in the process of laying off 550 employees…
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IBM Tivoli Creating Channel Opportunities
If you had any doubts that IBM no longer wants to play in the low-margin hardware game anymore, even if the sale of its PC business to Lenovo didn’t convince you, look no further than the company’s recent process manager and services bundle releases around its Tivoli software as proof. Recently IBM unveiled a slew…
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Off-Brand ERP Vendors Seek VARs
Emerging software players seeking to penetrate the midmarket enterprise resource planning space are inking deals with resellers to make an initial dent. 3i Infotech Ltd., a maker of ERP software, last week announced a VAR deal with Infonetics Corp., a move that marks the software company’s channel push in the North American market. 3i Infotech…
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Ingram Micro Launches ISV Program for VARS
Distributor Ingram Micro Inc. has enlisted a dozen software developers to participate in a program designed to put VARs together with software makers to increase sales for both in niche application markets. Enrolled in the program, which officially launches next week, are a plethora of developers, offering everything from document imaging to software that handles…
