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  • Is Anyone Fully in the Cloud?

    I’m on the road again.  This week I’m in the United Kingdom, and from here to Las Vegas. Being on the road reminds you about the fragile nature of connectivity. I hit the ground in London, and fired up my netbook and my USB dongle for connectivity in the UK, and caught up on my…

  • IT Distributors Hit Road to Recovery

    (Reuters) – Technology distributors, often seen as a barometer of IT spending, should meet or surpass Wall Street projections when they report quarterly results, fueling hopes of a broader recovery in the sector. Ingram Micro, Avnet Inc, Arrow Electronics — which distribute products of technology bellwethers IBM, Apple and Hewlett-Packard — are seen returning to…

  • VAR Healthcare Opportunities Span Beyond EMR

    With the growing buzz around healthcare IT, many VARs looking to grab a piece of the electronic healthcare records (EHR) market are met with frustration at the limited opportunities for the channel. Citing large and risky sales cycles, few EHR software providers allow VARs to resell their software. So, are there other opportunities for VARs…

  • Social Media Distracting from Real Security Issues

    As security pundits and analysts wrap up their annual round of yearly predictions, the headlines have been flush with forecasts about social media security threats eclipsing many other dangers on the to-do lists of IT security organizations. The theory is that unmanaged social media and Web 2.0 applications will be the root cause of this…

  • Oracle Addresses the Integration of Sun

    REDWOOD CITY, Calif. — Oracle, which earlier in the day closed its $7.4 billion acquisition of Sun Microsystems following nine months of thorny legal exercises, Jan. 27 explained to the media how it is morphing the creator of Java, Solaris and the Zettabyte File Server and its 27,600 employees into its own database-driven world. Oracle…

  • Oracle Details Its Ambitions for Sun Microsystems

    REDWOOD CITY, Calif. — Oracle, which earlier in the day closed its $7.4 billion acquisition of Sun Microsystems following nine months of thorny legal exercises, Jan. 27 explained to the media how it is morphing the creator of Java, Solaris and the Zettabyte File Server and its 27,600 employees into its own database-driven world. Oracle…

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