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Windows 7 Deployment Sparks Optimism
Even though some channel partners remain skeptical about the bounce they expect Windows 7 to provide to their sales numbers in the next year, a new study out by ITIC and Sunbelt Software shows that 60 percent of companies worldwide have made plans to deploy the new operating system, and 49 percent will do it…
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Apple Earnings Soar on Mac Sales, Profits Hit Record
(Reuters) – Apple Inc’s profits and sales streaked past Wall Street forecasts as iPhone and Mac sales hit quarterly records, sending its shares rocketing to all-time highs on Monday. Sales of Mac computers — the largest single contributor to Apple’s revenue — jumped a better-than-foreseen 17 percent, but shipments of the closely watched iPhone were…
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Cisco Overhauls Router Family, Touts $10 Billion Market
Cisco on Tuesday overhauled its Integrated Services Routers (ISR G2) family for the first time since the flagship products were launched five years ago. The second-generation routers have been rearchitected to address the network demands associated with the expansion of video and on-demand computing services, as well as the increase in branch offices. For channel…
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IT Was the Worst of Times: Gartner Says 2009 IT Spending Worst Ever
It was the worst of times. Gartner says that IT spending experienced its worst year ever in 2009—worse even than in 2001—on pace to decline 5.2 percent for the year. And in the enterprise space specifically, things were even tougher with a decline in IT spending of 6.9 percent. But Gartner says the IT industry…
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ConnectWise Masters Community Building
Since the end of summer, solution providers and vendors have complained to me about how packed the fall schedule is with channel events. On average, there’s one or two major channel events each week through the end of the year, and the first week of November will be among the busiest as three conferences–Symantec, HTG…
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IBM Global Financing Offers Credit Deals
IBM Global Financing has expanded its credit offers with a 90-day deferred payment and a 0 percent financing offer for IBM software purchases—an offer that comes just as overall credit markets may be starting to free up again. The financing arm of technology giant IBM says that the 90-day payment deferment is available on eligible…