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Clouds Reign On IBM Channel Parade
Looking to match the hottest item on channel partners’ agendas this year — cloud computing IBM will provide a day of cloud content to 1,000 Tivoli partners Feb. 21 at the kickoff to its Pulse 2010 conference in Las Vegas. It will be the first in a year-long series of cloud computing camps that show…
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Ingram Micro Quarter Showcases Reseller Recovery
IT solution providers and VARs fared better during this recession than the one that followed the dot-com/Y2K boom and bust, Ingram Micro (NYSE:IM) CEO Greg Spierkel has told Channel Insider. He estimates that 20 to 30 percent of the VAR community went into bankruptcy due to the effects of the recession in 2002 and 2003.…
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Salesforce’s Force.com Gives ISVs Entry to Cloud
About two years ago, Salesforce.com introduced its Force.com offering, through which the software-as-a-service giant invited developers to create cloud-based applications that would run on Salesforce.com’s own infrastructure. I must say that when I first heard about Salesforce.com’s efforts to allow development for the cloud through its own Force.com site, I was a bit skeptical about…
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New Diskeeper Tool Saves Time, Money for VARs
In the life of a Windows machine, nothing is certain but malware sweeps and disk defragmentation. Both chores are deployed regularly in hopes of holding off bit rot, and each has a knack for sucking up resources and generally getting in everyone’s way-despite ongoing vendor efforts to tuck these tasks into the background. I suspect…
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Lenovo’s New Midrange Server Goes Green
Lenovo’s rack-mount ThinkServer RD210 adds Intel “Nehalem” Xeon processors and management tools to a workhorse data center server to make it an able competitor in the tightly competitive 1U arena. The two-socket ThinkServer RD210, which began shipping in May 2009, joins a crowded field of general-purpose servers that have been revamped to take advantage of…