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CompTIA Goes to Washington
CompTIA is organizing a “fly-in” advocacy forum in Washington that will connect its community members and partners with their representatives in Congress and the Senate to discuss a variety of issues important to technology companies and also to show that the IT industry is more than the Microsofts and Googles of the nation. The fly-in…
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App Development: Building Your Practice While Avoiding the Pitfalls
While solution providers may be lured by the ring of app-development’s many opportunities, there are several hurdles they must avoid in order to ensure their new business venture is successful. Through planning and attention to detail, solution providers and consulting firms can be part of the application-development market. After all, with mobile apps alone expected…
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Microsoft Cloud Service Provider Enterhost Launches Partner Program
Internet cloud services provider Enterhost is reaching out to potential partners with the launch of its new channel program, announced at the MSPWorld conference in Austin, Texas. Enterhost, a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner, is a customized cloud-solution provider specializing in Windows applications with a focus on cloud desktop and private cloud services. The company also…
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Mobile App Development: Solution Providers Get in the Game
Application-development services are providing the channel with new reasons to revisit existing clients, add new customers—and reap more profits. Not surprisingly, this is causing many solution providers and consulting firms to consider adding this capability to their existing portfolio of offerings. In part, the overwhelming success of smartphones has created a surge of demand for…
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HP’s Whitman Era: Partners Should Proceed with Caution
If Hewlett Packard paid its channel partners the way it pays its ousted CEOs, solution providers would be sitting on sacks of money. Leo Apotheker, whom HP rather unceremoniously announced has been ousted after 11 months on the job, is getting a $25 million golden parachute, according to published reports. Not bad. It’s certainly enough…
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Tech Spending Will Rise in 2011, Slow in 2012: Forrester
Despite the worsening global economic environment, IT spending in the United States and around the world will continue to be relatively strong through the end of 2011, while slowing although still growing next year, according to analysts at Forrester Research. Forrester analysts in July were preparing to release their second-half IT projections, but put those…