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IT Jobs Trends 2010: Predictions for the New Year
While the recent Department of Labor report showed that IT employment may have turned the corner recently, that doesn’t mean there will be a big job recovery in IT in 2010. Expect IT hiring to remain sluggish through most of 2010, only picking up at the end of the year and maybe not even until…
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Dell Zeros In on Data Center Storage
The battle for the data center has been heating up recently with the likes of Cisco’s California, HP’s Converged Infrastructure, IBM’s Smarter Planet and the disappearance of Sun, so Dell’s decision to throw its hat in the ring with its own IT-as-a-commodity approach should come as no surprise. However, somewhat buried in the company’s grand…
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SecureWorks Acquires UK-based dns Limited
SecureWorks continued its managed security services empire building this week with its second major acquisition in six months by picking up UK-based dns Limited for an undisclosed sum. The purchase of this 10-year-old managed security services and consulting firm follows hot on the heels of SecureWork’s July acquisition of VeriSign’s Managed Security Services division for…
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Storage Software Sales Up From Q2, Down for Year
Despite the ever-escalating amounts of digital data that needs to be stored — growing at least 60 percent per year — the storage market has suffered along with the rest of the IT industry in this down economy. What should come as no surprise is that according to the latest numbers from IDC, storage software…
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Dell Strikes Back at Data Center Rivals HP, Cisco
Dell is taking the build-to-order philosophy that vaulted the company to success in the 1990s and applying it to the data center with a plan for modular components of computing, storage, networking and infrastructure management that can be easily assembled, deployed and managed. The announcement Dec. 10 is Dell’s answer to Cisco Systems’ and Hewlett-Packard’s…
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7 Disruptive Forces that Threaten the Channel
7 Disruptive Forces that Threaten the Channel Look at the IT world today and it’s very different than it was 10 years ago. Cloud computing, hosted software, smartphones, the consumerization of IT, and a vastly different economy are all disruptive forces that potentially threaten solution provider business models. But there’s a silver lining to that…
