Recent Articles
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Consumer Electronics Sales to Decline in 2010
Will the consumerization of IT be enough to save technology spending? Not this year, according to a new report from market research firm IDC. The report – ConsumerScape 360 – shows that the U.S. consumer electronics market has been hit disproportionately hard by the economic downturn. U.S. households are projected to spend 17 percent less…
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HP, ArcSight Deal Offers New Channel Opportunities
After two weeks of speculation about the fate of ArcSight following its revelation in late August that it was looking for buyers, HP’s announcement yesterday that it would pull the trigger on a $1.5 billion deal came as a surprise to no one within the IT security community. "I’m not surprised at all by this,"…
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Business E-Mail on Smartphones Poised for Big Growth
Whether it’s a BlackBerry, iPhone or Android-based smartphone, more workers will be checking e-mail on their smartphones in the years to come, according to a new report from IDC, which predicts the number of subscribers to mobile e-mail will grow at a compound annual growth rate of 36.5 percent through 2014. More than 250 million…
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Verizon Introduces Pay-as-You-Go Cloud Computing for Small Business
Communications giant Verizon announced it was looking to help businesses aiming to boost bandwidth, add more servers and turn up additional storage capacity to meet changing business needs with the company’s cloud computing offering, Computing as a Service, SMB. The solution, aimed at SMBs (small to medium-size businesses) joins Verizon’s CAAS (Computing as a Service)…
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IBM Targets HP, Oracle with Competitive Migration, Deferred Payments
IBM is turning up the heat on Oracle/Sun and HP, with a new financing program with special terms for customers who trade their Oracle/Sun and HP equipment to migrate to selected IBM equipment. IBM says it is offering attractive lease terms and no payments until 2011 for credit-qualified U.S. customers that trade in Oracle/Sun and…