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SMB Customers Embrace Managed Services
New data from AMI-Partners confirms earlier studies that North American SMBs not only want managed services, but that they want them now. The research company has been collecting data annually, but recently went to quarterly surveys and the results indicate that annual spending on remote managed IT services is expected to increase 3.3 times in…
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Vertical IT Down But Not Out
Vertical IT Down But Not Out Vertical IT down but not outBy Steve Wexler No Title Gartner has released new data on what’s happening globally in the vertical IT markets.Sales will be down in 2009 but they are predicting growth in 2010. Channel Insider takes a closer look at what’s hot and what’s not. IT…
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HD Video Conferencing Heats Up as Logitech Buys LifeSize
Hours after video conferencing vendor Tandberg’s (OSL:TAA) shareholders failed to approve a proposed deal to be acquired by networking giant Cisco (NASDAQ:CSCO), Logitech International (NASDAQ:LOGI) announced plans to acquire privately held video conferencing vendor LifeSize Communications. LifeSize offers high-definition video conferencing solutions for the budget-minded, with solutions priced at less than $10,000 and offered through…
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EC Objects to Oracle, Sun Microsystems Deal
NEW YORK/WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The European Commission has objected to Oracle Corp’s acquisition of computer maker Sun Microsystems Inc, throwing the $7 billion deal into question. The commission said in a preliminary assessment that combining Sun’s MySQL database product and Oracle’s products could hurt competition in the database market, Sun said in a filing with…
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Tandberg Shareholders Snub Cisco Offer
By Joergen Frich and Richard Solem OSLO (Reuters) – Cisco Systems (CSCO.O) said investors holding 9.37 percent of Tandberg’s (TAA.OL) shares had accepted the tender offer by the largest U.S. network equipment maker for the Norwegian videoconferencing company. Cisco said on November 9 it would extend its 17.2 billion Norwegian crown ($3.1 billion) offer to…
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Finding a Place in the Clouds
Building clouds capable of delivering scalable, multitenant applications to scores of distributed customers is a daunting task even for large enterprises such as Microsoft and Google. But solution providers of all shapes and sizes are looking to the heavens to find their place in the clouds for the next generation of computing. Cloud computing is…
