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The Channel Looks Bright for 2004
No one can say that 2003 has not been kind to the channel. Its profit picture—not to mention its performance on Wall Street—promises to end the year on a high note not seen around these parts since 2000. With the Nasdaq flirting with the 2000 mark and the Dow marching steadily toward 1400, phrases like…
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MaXXan Does Storage on Demand
MaXXan Systems Inc., last week announced a storage system packaging its intelligent fabric systems with the availability of FalconStor’s IPStor 4.0 software suite. The combo will enable storage on-demand as well as provide storage services for disaster recovery, file serving, data protection and storage consolidation. “Instead of buying a variety of systems from a number…
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Channel Stocks Climb 44 Percent in 2003
The channel certainly is enjoying the technology rebound. During 2003, our Ziff Davis Channel Zone Stock Index rose 44 percent. Twenty-nine out of 30 stocks in our index rose this year. Moreover, five index stocks—DiamondCluster International Inc. (DTPI), Digitas Inc. (DTAS), Covansys Corp. (CVNS), Sapient (SAPE) and The Titan Corp. (TTN)—rose more than 100 percent…
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Rise in LCD-Panel Prices Squeeze PC Makers and Consumers
TAIPEI, Taiwan—Shifts in thin-film-transistor liquid crystal display production here may bring changes to the product mix offered by PC makers to customers in the U.S. and Europe. Analysts said recently that manufacturing transitions and market demands will bring something unfamiliar to consumers of flat-panel displays: a rise in prices. For the first half of 2003,…
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PredatorWatch Prowls for Network Integrators
What PredatorWatch Inc. has is a security monitoring device slightly bigger than the palm of your hand, providing realtime security and reporting tools to document regulatory compliance with the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act, Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. , Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPPA) , and others. What it doesn’t have is enough solutions integrators. That’s…
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FreeBSD Unix Gets a Holiday Boost
FreeBSD.org on Tuesday offered Release Candidate 5.2 of its open-source Unix project. The group is prepping a final candidate due in January. A new test version of the FreeBSD open-source Unix operating system was announced on Tuesday by Scott Long of the FreeBSD Release Engineering Team. As a “release candidate,” Version 5.2 RC2 is not…
