Recent Articles
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Microsoft Channel Chief to Outline Cloud Opportunity
Starting with an expansive speech CEO Steve Ballmer gave at the University of Washington last week, Microsoft appears to be continuing a full-court press of its cloud computing strategy, assigning its highest-level executives to get the word out that the company is serious about the online software world. Many in the channel need convincing, which…
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Business Intelligence for the Cloud Provides ERP, CRM Integration Opportunity
If you’re a traditional VAR and you are looking at the potential of the cloud business model, it may be hard to see how X amount of dollars per user per month will add up to enough for your business to survive at all, let alone thrive and grow. You are used to the big…
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Tech Data’s Recession 2009 Strategy Pays Off
Ask a technology executive about how business was in 2009 and you might hear "not great," or "down." You don’t hear very many executives using the word “exceptional” these days when it comes to describing their company’s performance in the past year, but that’s just the word that Tech Data CEO Bob Dutkowsky used to…
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Storage Market Future Brightening Up
IDC has just released its numbers for the external disk storage systems factory revenues for the fourth quarter of 2009 (4Q09), showing a slight year-over-year decline of just less than 1 percent, to $5.3 billion. The total disk storage systems market grew to $7.3 billion, representing flat growth from 4Q08 while total disk storage systems…
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HP ProCurve Visionary Joins Brocade, Slams Cisco, HP Data Center Plans
Cisco and HP may be pushing their new monolithic architectures in the data center, but customers in that segment tend to “move in a much more cautious and judicious fashion,” according to John McHugh, the HP executive credited with building the ProCurve line into a billion dollar business. McHugh spoke to Channel Insider from his…