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IT Vendors Offer More Customer Financing to Boost Sales
Although, in the wake of the worst of the recession, solution providers’ access to bank funding continues to be limited, distributors and vendors are rolling out a plethora of financing and leasing options designed to fuel sales and ignite channel business. Even at the economy’s high-points, traditional money-lenders did not always understand the service-oriented solution…
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Taking Your Managed Services Business to the Next Level
The MSP market is booming, and new players arrive every day. Some do very well, others struggle, but all share one element in common – the desire to achieve growth that leads to increased revenue. However, growth is complicated and can be somewhat risky, often following a torturous path that ultimately ends in uncertainty. That…
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Where’s Microsoft’s Plan to Win in the Consumerization of IT Age?
Image via Wikipedia Take a look at the companies that have made major progress in the technology industry in the past few years and you’ll notice a pattern. Apple and Google both emphasize simplicity and a go-to-market strategy that emphasizes consumer markets. In an age when the consumerization of IT is the reality and the…
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Google Quarter Sales Top $9B
Google (NASDAQ:GOOG) July 14 broke the $9 billion sales mark for the first time ever in the second quarter, a 32 percent boost over Q2 2010 revenues of $6.82 billion. Excluding $2.11 billion in traffic-acquisition costs, the search engine notched $6.92 billion in net revenue in the second quarter of 2011 and non-GAAP earnings per…
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Pentagon Admits Major Data Breach
A foreign government was behind a March cyber-attack against military computers that led to 24,000 files being stolen from a defense contractor, the Department of Defense said. The intruders were after files related to missile tracking systems, unmanned aerial vehicles and the Joint Strike Fighter. The revelation came in a July 14 speech at the…
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Cloud Computing Dreams Crash into Reality
The promised benefits of cloud computing may be huge from easy collaboration to big cost savings, but relying on the cloud for computing presents its own set of problems. That’s according to partners, customers and experts at a Cisco Live roundtable which shattered a few myths and highlighted some key problems that need to be…
