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Wyse, Kaviza Deal Enables $99 VDI Client
Thin-client giant Wyse Technology has teamed up with recent Citrix acquisition, Kaviza to offer a $99 per seat VDI implementation. The offering enables small and midsized businesses to repurpose existing PCs with Wyse PC Extender software and Kaviza VDI-in-a-box enabling the ultra-low price point for cloud/thin client computing. For SMB-level companies wanting improved performance with…
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Intel Corp. Ultrabooks to Premiere By End of 2011
A new category of thin and light mobile computers in the sub $1,000 price range called Ultrabooks will grab 40 percent of the consumer laptop market by the end of 2012, according to Intel Corp’s Sean Maloney, executive vice president. Maloney was speaking at the Computex Taipei 2011 event in Taiwan, calling these new Ultrabooks…
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Cloud Services: Who Owns The Customer?
As the proliferation of cloud services continues and more channel partners are getting into reselling the services of others, there’s a big question mark forming, and there’s no real answer yet: Who owns the customer? In a traditional hardware or software resale deal, resellers make their money off of resale margins, hopefully followed by service…
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Vendor Loyalty in the Cloud Up for Grabs
The cloud is about to seriously test the loyalty of IT vendors’ channel partners. In a cloud-centric world, brand has far less cachet than the sum of the aggregate parts that make up a solution provider’s cloud offerings. So, vendors beware. If your technology falls short, your communication is poor or your channel program is…
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SMBs Want Remote Access, On-Premises Backup: Survey
A new survey on storage priorities for small and midsize businesses has found that most SMBs (68 percent of those participating in the survey) have one or fewer persons dedicated to IT, while 99 percent say they will not move 100 percent of their storage to the cloud. In the survey of data storage specialist…