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Intel: Spring Peak Laptop Family Offers Hardware Margins over 10%
Intel’s making hardware sales more lucrative for resellers and system builders again, working together with a handful of ODMs on a family of notebook products called “Spring Peak” that can be white-labeled and resold to business end customers at a margins estimated to be above 10 percent. ODMs such as ASI, Equus and Seneca Data…
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Acer, Dell, HP Roll Out New PCs Based on Intel Core vPro Family
If your customers have been waiting for PCs based on the 2010 Intel Core vPro processor family to release their pent-up demand and upgrade to Microsoft Windows 7, their wait is over. Bring on the refresh cycle. Intel has unveiled the processor family, and PC makers Acer, Asus, Dell, HP, Lenovo and Toshiba are introducing…
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Is Google Eyeing the Mobile Enterprise with New Management Tools?
Google has strengthened its Google Apps enterprise IT management capabilities by unveiling new administrative tools designed to securely manage e-mail and applications across a wide range of mobile devices, including iPhone, Nokia E Series and Windows Mobile devices. The new tools allow Google Apps Premier and Education Edition administrators to manage enterprise smartphones directly…
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HP POD: Have Data Center, Will Travel
Eighteen months ago HP launched a self-contained portable data center to address customers with limited space and/or budgets looking to expand their IT capabilities. Just add the IT products and services and you had a ready-to-run IT facility in a forty-foot container. This week the company expanded its POD (Performance-Optimized Datacenter) line with a 20-foot…
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ADP National Employment Report Shows Service Jobs Growth
Non-farm private employment declined by 22,000 jobs in January 2010 compared with December 2009, but according to HR outsourcing firm Automatic Data Processing (ADP), that figure actually represented some good news. “The January employment decline was the smallest since employment began falling in February 2008,” said Joel Prakken, chairman of Macroeconomic Advisors, in a statement.…
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Finding the Right Fit: Managing the Reseller Relationship
Newly forged reseller partnerships generally are charged with excitement and filled with the promise of new customers and increased revenue, but, in reality, many partnerships fail to drive the anticipated business value. So, what should VARs look for when inking a new reseller deal? Terian Solutions President Mike Colesante provided Channel Insider with some insight…
