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10 Mosts Coveted Technologies
10 Mosts Coveted Technologies Solution providers will join two to three vendor partner programs this year, mostly to gain access to new technologies and products, according the Channel Insider/Motorola Partnership Study. Here are the 10 technologies most desired by solution providers. No Title VAR Interest: 9%Currently Selling/Supporting: 24%Opportunity: Moderate to HighPoint of sale solutions and…
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DataPreserve Offers ‘Cloud’ Data Protection for SMBs
With an eye on small to midsized business (SMB) customers, DataPreserve unveiled its DataPreserve Pro software suite; enterprise-level, cloud-based data protection software and storage geared for SMBs. In announcing the software, DataPreserve noted that it is designed to be utilized by Managed Service Providers (MSPs), who offer data protection services to their clients without incurring…
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Cisco Collaboration in Motion Provides Mobility
Cisco Systems has launched a new initiative to bring collaboration applications to the mobile world. The Collaboration in Motion initiative ties together a variety of existing and new products, as well as a new program for third-party vendors, to help shift partners from selling 802.11n access points to selling combined solutions that can go into…
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Printing: The Untapped Services Opportunity
Hewlett Packard announced its quarterly earnings this week and quickly analysts asked “what happened to the profit in printing?” The decline in HP printer revenue—the former cash cow of the company—and the struggles of printer vendors such as Xerox, Ricoh and Lexmark—as many financial analysts and reporters believe the green (money) is gone when it…
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Xerox CEO Anne Mulcahy to Step Down
Xerox CEO Anne Mulcahy, one of the longest-tenured and most powerful female chief executives in the technology industry, is retiring from her post in July, according to the company. Mulcahy will be succeeded by Ursula Burns, who is currently president at Xerox. In the meantime, Mulcahy will remain on as chairman of Xerox’s board. Mulcahy,…
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Sepaton Launches New Remote Replication Solution for Large Enterprises
Large enterprises generate an almost unfathomable amount of data. While this creates great opportunity for solution providers to offer backup and disaster recovery services for these clients, it also introduces a problem – backing up, replicating and securing these huge data stores. It is incredibly inefficient and costly. Traditional solutions back up all of a…
