Recent Articles
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Survey Shows Uptick in Jobs at Midsize Businesses amid Recession
After more than a year of declines, direct market reseller CDW’s bimonthly survey of IT leaders is now showing signs that the worst of the recession may be over. The most recent CDW IT Monitor survey shows that an increasing number of IT decision makers from small and midsize businesses—29 percent—anticipate making investments in IT…
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Oracle Committed to Sun’s Hardware Business
Last week, Oracle’s $7.4 billion bid for Sun surprised investors, since the database giant has little experience in hardware products. But Larry Ellison, Oracle CEO said in a statement that “Integrated computer systems, hardware and software, should be very profitable.” Many of Oracle’s customers already use servers based on Sun’s Sparc chips, and if the…
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Agent-Driven Managed Services
The tide is finally turning in the managed services market as the convergence of market acceptance and economic conditions is making it more palatable for end users to adopt remotely delivered infrastructure management and hosted applications. Troubling to some solution providers is that they will not be the ones delivering the actual services. Managed services…
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Sun Microsystems Q3 Revenues Fall 20 Percent
Sun Microsystems (NASDAQ:JAVA) grew billings nearly 4 percent year over year in total software, open storage, Solaris-based SPARC CMT servers and X64 servers during its third fiscal quarter, but that was not enough to stop revenue from dropping 20 percent compared with the same period last year. Revenues for the third quarter of fiscal 2009…
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MXLogic Study Shows Managed Services Continue Steady Growth
In an economic climate where “Hello, can I interest you in upgrading your servers?” won’t get solution providers very far, an MXLogic study finds that VARs are finding success leading with managed services to help customers cut costs and increase efficiencies. “You just can’t walk into a CIO’s office anymore with a pitch to upgrade…