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Cisco’s Tidal Software ERP Deal to Boost Reseller-Led Services
Cisco plans to acquire privately held Tidal Software, a maker of application management and automation software, paying about $105 million in cash plus retention-based incentives. Cisco says that the acquisition will create significant opportunities for both Cisco and its partners through the delivery of partner-led services that leverage Cisco’s application management capabilities. Although privately held,…
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5 Tech Deal Closing Strategies
5 Tech Deal Closing Strategies 5 Tech Deal-Closing Strategies Hardware vendors are expected to be among the hardest hit by the recession. So it’s not a surprise to see them come up with some creative tricks to boost sales and help their solution provider partners close more deals. Here are a few tricks tactics that…
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U.S. Electrical Grid Cyber-spy Threat Could Mean Security Opportunity
As legislators and regulators highlight the threat of cyber-spies exploiting computer and network security weaknesses to attack the U.S. electrical grid, there may be an opportunity for reseller solution providers to help protect it. This week the Wall Street Journal reported that cyber-spies from China, Russia and other countries have penetrated the U.S. electrical grid…
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Conficker Followed up by Scareware-Powered Spam
Preparation and persistence helped many to dodge the Conficker threat, and while many may have dodged that bullet, the war against malware is far from over. The recently released Microsoft Security Intelligence Report (SIR), which covers the final 6 months of 2008, indicates that rogue security software threats are on the rise. Those pieces of…
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Netbook Performance Lagging? Intel Intros New Atom CPUs for Mobile
Does that netbook need better performance? Intel today announced two new versions of its Atom processors that have powered for smartphones, portable computers, netbooks and mobile internet devices (MIDs). The Z550 and Z515 are both designed to deliver better performance than what’s currently available on the market. Intel says these new processors will serve the…
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Businesses May Skip Vista Upgrade Entirely
Good early reviews of Windows 7 beta is prompting some enterprises to cancel version migration plans from XP and skip over Vista, according to a new report by ChangeWave. In the survey of 2,000 corporate IT buyers, 53 percent said they were planning to skip Vista altogether and wait for Windows 7’s general availability. Only…
