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The Right Way to Get Found By Customers Who Search
Do you feel it? The pressure? VARs and IT solution providers are under increasing pressure from vendor direct sales creeping into hardware, the threat of vendors taking cloud services direct, the after effects of a lengthy recession, not to mention recent pressure on governments to cut all costs and mandating cloud services. The threat of…
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Apple iPad Not Weakening PC Sales: NPD Report
The consumer PC market isn’t floundering because of Apple’s iPad tablet, and the rate of cannibalization is actually declining among more recent purchasers, according to market research company The NPD Group’s “Apple iPad Owner Study II” report. According to the report, only 14 percent of early iPad adopters (iPad owners of six months or more)…
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NetSuite to Use Oracle Exadata for Cloud
Cloud-based financial and ERP software suite provider NetSuite has announced a partnership with Oracle to put its cloud offerings on Oracle’s Exadata Database Machine. NetSuite said that the high level of database performance Exadata enables will provide NetSuite customers with better performance, plus additional security, fault-tolerance and transaction processing advances, without having to make their…
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Citrix CEO: Don’t Fight the Consumerization of IT
The consumerization of IT will force more change in the next 10 years than any other trend in business or technology, and part of that change will be a continued drive towards cloud computing service models. That’s according to Citrix Systems’ CEO Mark Templeton, who addressed the issues around the consumerization of IT and its…
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D-Link Unveils New Scalable Switches for SMBs
Networking solutions provider D-Link broadened its selection of scalable switching solutions for small to medium-size businesses, including the DGS-6604 chassis-based switch and DGS-3620 and DGS-3120 xStack series switches. The switches offer 10-Gigabit Ethernet aggregation, and Power Over Ethernet support, as well as IPv6 support including IPv6 Tunnel, ICMPv6, IPv6 Neighbor Discovery, DHCPv6, RIPng and OSPFv3.…
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McAfee Launches New Cloud Security Platform for Business Data
McAfee is launching a new security platform designed to protect content and data traffic as businesses and IT departments move from physical to cloud computing infrastructures. These new security tools also come as the IT industry is digesting how secure the cloud after two notable failures at Sony and Amazon. The McAfee Cloud Security Platform…