Recent Articles
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What Motorola’s Spin Off Will Mean to Partners
With recent quarterly earnings beating almost all expectations, Motorola is making a name for itself as the “comeback kid.” The company surpassed its Q2 shipment numbers, and is planning for a successful handoff of its network business and a complete restructuring to occur in Q1 2011. All solid proof that momentum is growing, and putting…
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Technology Buy Decisions Moving to End Users
Could VARs be soon marketing their wares directly to the end users instead of company buyers? According to a new poll out this week by Unisys Corp., perhaps so. The poll found that the majority of today’s information workers so value the innovative technology they use for work that they’d be willing to pull out…
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CA Technologies Acquires Virtualization Specialist 4Base
As part of its continued investment in virtualization and cloud management, CA Technologies announced the acquisition of privately held 4Base Technology, a virtualization and cloud infrastructure consulting firm. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed. 4Base will become the CA Virtualization and Cloud Strategy group, a competency practice within the CA Services division, according to…
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Avnet Quarter Strong, CEO Talks Tech Refresh
IT and electronics distributor Avnet saw a 38.5 percent spike in fourth quarter revenue year over year as buyers returned following a deep recession in 2009. Avnet reported Q4 sales of $5.2 billion compared to $3.8 billion for the same period a year ago. Net income came in at $141 million compared to a net…
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Cisco Quarter Disappoints, Creates Concern Over Economic Recovery
NEW YORK, Aug 11 (Reuters) – Cisco Systems Inc (NASDAQ:CSCO) CEO John Chambers warned of "unusual uncertainty" in the economy and forecast revenue that missed Wall Street targets, sending its shares plummeting and raising fears that a nascent recovery in technology spending could be derailed. The cautious comments from the man often known as Silicon…
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VMware’s Zimbra Appliance Offers Virtual Collaboration Solution
Virtualization specialist VMware announced the launch of the Zimbra Collaboration Suite Appliance, an e-mail and collaboration solution delivered as a virtual appliance and designed to run on the VMware vSphere platform. In addition, VMware announced that Zimbra, which it acquired in February 2010, is now fully integrated within VMware, and all Zimbra products are currently…