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  • MSP Success: Video Cloud New Face of Video Conferencing

    It’s hard to be optimistic in troubled economic times, but Jim Drohan and Paul Goldman, co-Founders of Video Cloud are just that. Fresh from the launch of Video Cloud in May 2009, Drohan and Goldman are seeing incredible interest in their managed video conferencing solutions both from small-to-midsized businesses and solution providers serving that market.…

  • MSP Success: Connecting Point Stresses Uptime

    Las Vegas-based solution provider Connecting Point doesn’t sell its customers managed services.  After all, not even the people who build managed services can agree on a definition of the term.  If those who sell managed services can’t agree on what it means, then will customers understand the term? No, and that’s why Connecting Point sells…

  • Feds Reportedly Eyeing Telecom Probe

    (Reuters) – The U.S. Justice Department has begun looking at big telecom companies such as AT&T Inc and Verizon Communications to try to determine if they have abused their market power, the Wall Street Journal reported in its online edition on Monday. The journal, which cited people familiar with the matter, said the Antitrust Division’s…

  • Sony to Offer $500 Vaio W Series Mini-Notebook

    Sony is getting into the netbook mini-notebook game with the release of its new Vaio W series line, squarely aimed at consumers and carrying a hefty price tag of about $500 in the United States – one that puts the netbook in competition against some of the less expensive traditional laptop computers. Sony is only…

  • NetApp Weighs Options After EMC’s New Bid for Data Domain

    Just one day after heralding the lifting of regulatory hurdles in its bid to acquire Data Domain, NetApp was forced to face a new, sobering setback: Rival bidder EMC, deep pockets and all, was not giving up its own quest. Storage market leader EMC, flush with its own government green light to pursue deduplication specialist…

  • Gartner: Still No Economic Recovery for IT Spending, Sales

    Gartner is now forecasting a 6 percent decline in IT spending for 2009, representing a more significant decline than the market research firm’s previous forecast of a 3.8 percent decline. Gartner says that all four major segments of IT spending will experience declines—hardware, software, IT services and telecommunications. "While the global economic downturn shows signs…

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