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VARs Cashing in on Managed Print Services
From high-ticket, high-output networked printers to low-cost personal multi-function devices tucked in private offices, organizations spend a small fortune each year managing, maintaining, and operating their armies of printers and copiers—and savvy solution providers are helping clients take control of the associated costs, management issues, and upkeep through margin-rich, customer-centric managed print services offerings. Indeed,…
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Most Small Businesses Hope to Hire in 2011
Despite the latest jobs report that shows employers added fewer jobs in May than expected, a majority of small businesses (57 percent) say they plan to hire this year, according to a survey from Manta, an online community for promoting and connecting small business. Manta’s SMB Nation Survey queried 1,016 small business owners–the majority of…
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Cloud, Virtualized Environments Targeted by Cyber-Attackers
NEW YORK — Cyber-criminals are simultaneously taking advantage of the cloud’s benefits to launch attacks as well as targeting organizations’ cloud services, security experts said. As organizations increasingly virtualize their data centers and move their applications to the cloud, attackers are beginning to think, "Let’s attack here," Allen Vance, director of product management of the…
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NetEnrich Launches Cloud Practice for Solution Providers
IT infrastructure management services provider NetEnrich announced the launch of Cloud Practice, designed to support IT solution providers that have or want to build a full portfolio of cloud computing solutions aimed at small to medium-size businesses. The Cloud Practice uses NetEnrich’s Service Delivery framework to remotely manage IT application stacks and databases within private,…
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Is That Tech Conference Worth Your Time and Money?
As I write this, I’m sitting in another airport headed to another conference. Specifically, the United lounge at my “home” airport of Dulles International Airport, enjoying a moment in the Red Carpet Lounge as my flight is delayed 3 hours. I’m hoping to actually be taking off at the time I should have been arriving…
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HP Threatens Oracle Over Itanium Support
HP (NYSE:HPQ) is ramping up its battle to get Oracle (NASDAQ:ORCL) to continue to support Intel’s (NASDAQ:INTC) Itanium chip and platform, sending “a formal legal demand” to the database and enterprise software giant this week. HP did not release the letter publicly but a spokesman said in a statement “This morning we took a significant…