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Apple Still Pushes VARs’ Emotional Buttons
Nothing stokes the VAR community more than talking about Apple’s channel strategy. While there is no argument that Dell Inc. has been a channel killer for years before it started working with integrators and service providers, the mere mention of sales and service opportunities around the Mac platform raises a reseller’s ire to alarming proportions.…
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Apple Will Grow with Intel
Apple’s Chief Executive Steve Jobs confirmed at the company’s Worldwide Developer Conference in San Francisco what had been rumored for weeks: Apple is walking out on its 14-year microprocessor sourcing relationship with IBM in favor of semiconductor titan Intel. The relationship with IBM went back to 1991 when Apple Computer Inc. agreed to transition its…
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Citrix Online Recruits VARs in Remote-Access Push
In a world of wireless connections, mobile devices, time constraints and busy people, remote access has become a necessity for a growing number of individuals and organizations. With that in mind, Citrix Online, a division of Citrix Systems Inc., of Fort Lauderdale, Fla., has developed a suite of products to give users remote access to…
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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…
