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Cisco Intros Next-Gen Video Conferencing, Collaboration Platform
Looking to create a complete video-enabled collaboration solution for the new millennium, Cisco today introduced a handful of new products and outlined how they would work together, enabling businesses to increase productivity and reduce travel. The announcements include nods to next-generation collaboration standards as well as providing an answer to those who have said that…
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Philly VAR Pays Up on World Series Bet
The defending World Series champions, the Philadelphia Phillies, put up a good fight in defending their title, but just couldn’t hold off the irresistible force known as the New York Yankees. In the process of losing, the team hailing from the City of Brotherly Love let down one of their biggest fans – unified communications…
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Fujitsu BPM Cloud Challenges IBM, Oracle
BPM big boys Oracle and IBM face a growing threat in the business process management market – Fujitsu. The Japanese giant today unveiled version 11 of its BPM product Interstage and commenced a free development program designed to take advantage of the growing trend around BPM cloud computing. The new program is designed for channel,…
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CDW Bullish About SMB Market
CDW has discovered some interesting trends in the SMB market that reveal a number of potential opportunities for the channel. Coupled with another CDW study from two weeks ago, the super-VAR — 2008 sales of $8.07 billion — paints an optimistic picture for the sale of IT products and services. The 2009 CDW Report on…
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IBM Woos Developers With Cloud Offerings
IBM on Friday unveiled two new cloud-based services aimed at software developers looking to build applications in the cloud. IBM Rational Software Delivery Services for Cloud Computing consists of application lifecycle management tools made available as cloud services so that developers, partners and customers can access them on an as-needed basis to build and test…
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7 Ways to Drive Additional Revenue with Windows 7
With Windows 7 as the heir-apparent to the eight-year-old XP operating system (Vista? What Vista?), VARs are gearing up to lead their customers into the transition. For the smallest businesses, this will happen by default as their typical purchasing venues sell only Windows 7 machines. But the rest will rely on VARs to lead the…