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  • Ingram Micro: The Recession Is Over

    IT distributor Ingram Micro’s revenues and profits came roaring back in the first quarter, with revenue growth up 20 percent year over year and net income more than doubling, signaling an end to the recession and a potential recovery. “If you’d asked me two quarters ago, did we think we’d be looking at strong double-digit…

  • OnForce First Quarter Indicators The Promise of 2010 Tech Sales

    OnForce First Quarter Indicators The Promise of 2010 Tech Sales Employment numbersThe unemployment rate remained steady at 9.7 percent or 15 million people with 162,000 jobs added in March, compared to 36000 lost in February and 20,000 lost in January. No Title Consumer confidenceIncreased from February to March to 52.5. In February the index fell…

  • OnForce: Price Stabilization, Higher Demand Characterize Market

    Dollars are beginning to flow again as pent up demand for technology refreshes, project work and security is finally coming to market and IT budgets are being spent again, albeit judiciously. IT services marketplace OnForce CEO Peter Cannone tells Channel Insider that work order volume grew about 15 percent during the first quarter over the…

  • Channel Insider’s Guide to Cisco’s and HP’s Dueling Channel Partner Events

    HP Signals Call to Arms against Cisco, Dell HP’s channel leadership promised profitability, less complexity, better products and sales support in the increasingly tense battle for dominance against rivals in networking, data centers, PCs and services. Cisco Fires Back at HP, Talks Business Transformation Cisco Systems told channel partners at its partner summit in San…

  • Cisco Expands Cloud Security as Verizon and Novell Ramp Secure Cloud Services

    Cisco Systems, Verizon Business and Novell are unveiling offerings designed to make cloud computing more secure. Cisco on April 28 announced security services based around e-mail and the Internet that are part of the company’s cloud protection push and its Secure Borderless Network architecture, which aims to give users secure access to their corporate resources…

  • Microsoft Windows 7 Gains Momentum

    Microsoft announced the week of April 26 that Windows 7 is now its fastest-selling operating system of all time. According to the company, it has reached over 100 million licenses worldwide, easily outpacing its predecessor, Windows Vista. It’s a major victory for Microsoft. Just a few years ago, some were wondering if the company’s dominance…

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