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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…
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IBM Report Finds IT Departments Favor Solid-State Storage Technology
IT professionals are embracing high-performance solid-state disks to support growing data storage demands driven by cloud computing and analytics technologies, a survey by technology giant IBM revealed. More than half (57 percent) of the customers surveyed responded that their organizations need to develop a new storage approach to manage future growth. The survey of 250…
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EMC Launches Greenplum Analytics Appliance
EMC took another dive into the "big data" processing pool Sept. 21 when it introduced a new analytics appliance that runs on its Greenplum software. The announcement was made at the O’Reilly Strata Conference in New York City. The data storage provider is positioning the Greenplum Modular Data Computing Appliance as the industry’s first "complete"…
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‘HP Matters’ Says Incoming CEO Meg Whitman
Hewlett-Packard, which desperately needed a better communicator and executor of business strategy at the top of its organization, introduced its new CEO, Meg Whitman, to an audience of press and analysts on a conference call a mere one hour after announcing her appointment on Sept. 22. Following a full day of speculation, Whitman replaced former…