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The Apple iPad Sales Forecast: The Good and the Less Good
Forecasts are all over the place in terms of just how many iPads Apple will sell. The only certain thing is that most everyone has an opinion. Morgan Stanley is reporting that Apple’s Asian suppliers will ship 8 million to 10 million units in 2010, compared with a previous forecast of more than 5 million…
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Qwest, IBM Roll Out Latest Managed Services
Qwest this week launched two new managed services solutions as part of its ongoing alliance with IBM to create and deliver remote IT services for businesses with fewer than 15,000 employees. The services – Qwest iQ Managed Security Service and Qwest iQ Network Management Service – will be sold both through Qwest’s Business Market Group’s…
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Avnet Adds Storage Muscle with Bell Micro Acquisition
Distribution giant Avnet (NYSE:AVT) has announced a definitive agreement to buy storage-centric distributor Bell Microproducts (NASDAQ:BELM), marking the largest acquisition in Avnet’s history and one that will expand the company’s product offerings and geographies. Specifically, Avnet will get Bell Micro’s stronghold—its hard disk drive business—plus a range of other products and geography expansions. Wall Street…
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Stop Blaming Users for Security Woes
I felt like the dumbest kid in the class. And that’s a good thing. I had the opportunity this week to help out the NPR station WAMU in Washington, D.C., by serving on their Community Advisory panel as an IT professional talking about Cyber Security. The panel was quite distinguished. The Director of the SANS…
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HP Targets LTO-3 Customers With LTO-5 Blitz
While representing only a fraction of disk sales — $4 billion versus $16 billion in 2009 — tape sales continue to grow, led by the Linear Tape Open (LTO) format, which accounted for 83 percent of total tape sales. HP, market leader of this segment with 32 percent share, is refreshing its entire lineup with…
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Apple’s iPad Already a Flop?
Apple channel partners have told Channel Insider that their customers are plenty interested in Apple’s iPad, asking to buy the $500-plus tablet-sized device through the channel. Certainly Apple’s iPhone has been making more inroads into business strongholds. But a new report from market research company NDP Group shows consumers who are most aware of the…