Recent Articles
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Cisco Partners Face Competitive Crossroads
Is it safe for Cisco and HP partners to go in the water again? It may seem like the pressure is off, since Cisco and HP’s channel partner conferences don’t fall during the same week this year. But, really, is the pressure off? Or is the competition just as acute as last year. Lee Doyle,…
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Smartphones Trump Tablets on Consumer Shopping Lists
With myriad devices, from eReaders to PCs to gaming consoles, consumers have a buffet of techno-swag to choose from. So which piece of hardware will win the most followers this year? According to analyst firm Gartner, 2011 will be the year of the smartphone. An in the age of the consumerization of IT, that means…
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HP Forecast Disappoints on PCs, IT Services
(Reuters) – Hewlett-Packard Co trimmed its 2011 revenue projections on weak consumer PC demand and a lackluster showing from its IT services arm, sending its shares plummeting 12 percent. The weak performance, which saw HP missing its own revenue target for the fiscal first quarter, made for a tough start for new Chief Executive Leo…
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Acer Server, Storage Appliances Boast AMD, Intel Processors
Acer America announced a line of server and storage solutions across a broad range of usage models, including tower, rack, blade and multi-node platforms that are based on Intel Xeon and AMD Opteron processors. The Acer server and storage solutions also support the release of Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 Service Pack 1 (SP1) and…
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Building a Business that Reflects Your Lifestyle
I’m starting to think that I need a therapist. My last column focused on the decisions that drive growth “your way“. There is a predominant idea that there are two kinds of companies, lifestyle and growth businesses. The lifestyle business is a business that is focused on supporting the owner’s lifestyle. Wikipedia has a good…