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Dell`s PC Pricing Conundrum
Has Dell learned its lesson about pricing products for the channel? Since the computer manufacturer re-entered the channel nearly 18 months ago, it’s dodged issues of conflict for what it offers registered partners for prices on products and what customers can find by shopping direct on Dell’s Web site. Now Dell is engaging the channel…
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Recession a Boon to IT Professionals Working as Temps
Voice over IP rollouts, PC refreshes in certain vertical industries, and point-of-sale installations remain IT project bright spots even as the world continues to be mired in a recession. That’s according to SmartSource, an IT staffing firm that specializes in serving IT solution providers. While pointing to IT projects that continue to show growth, SmartSource’s CEO…
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Open Cloud Manifesto Ensures Migration, Not Identity Management
The controversial “Open Cloud Manifesto” is intended to ensure users of Web-based applications such as those offered by Salesforce.com, IBM and Microsoft have the ability to port their data to new providers should they choose to switch services. However, the limitation of cloud services is the lack of secure inter-cloud communications and data exchange between…
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Intel`s Xeon 5500 Greens Servers and Conquers Virtual Worlds
With the launch of Intel’s new Xeon 5500 processors, it’s obvious that data centers will turn to the latest CPU to consolidate servers and embrace virtualization in the data center. But, what isn’t so obvious is what the Xeon 5500 means to the traditional desktop infrastructure. A Xeon 5500 based server has the potential to…
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Dawn of Solutions as a Service
If there’s going to be an “IT 3.0” or a “Channel 3.0,” the marketplace masters will be those companies that crack the code for “solutions as a service.” Two years ago while working at the now defunct VARBusiness, I coined the term “Channel 2.0.” At the time, the channel was already showing shifts in the…
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Stopping Conficker: The Tools You`ll Need
Thanks to the exaggerated dangers posed by the Conficker worm, many are wondering if they are safe from the predictions of gloom and doom expected to hit internet connected PCs on April 1. Luckily, it takes very little to be prepared for and stop Conficker from impacting your PC and ending the world as we…