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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…
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GreenPages Targets Fortune 500 with Veeam Virtualization Tools
Consulting firm and software reseller GreenPages plans to expand its enterprise-level virtualization management offerings with Veeam Business View and the recently released Veeam Monitor 4.5. GreenPages expects the tools will help strengthen its value proposition and broaden its reach into its growing enterprise customer base. Virtualization and cloud computing are now out of its infant…
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IBM Executive on Leave After Insider Trading Arrest
NEW YORK (Reuters) – IBM placed senior executive Robert Moffat on leave of absence after he was arrested in the largest ever hedge fund insider-trading scheme. Moffat, senior vice president and head of International Business Machines Corp.’s systems and technology group, is being charged with passing on insider information to a hedge fund. He had…