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Coyote Point Unveils New Channel Midmarket Program
Load balancing and application acceleration experts Coyote Point Systems, Inc., based in San Jose, Calif., announced a multi-tiered channel program to support increasing demand for its new Equalizer GX family of application acceleration and load balancing solutions, aimed at small to medium-size businesses (SMBs). The company says the their Tiered Partner Program is designed to…
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Gartner: PC Unit Sales to See Worst Decline in History
The outlook for computer hardware sales—desktop PCs, servers and even notebooks—has grown bleaker for 2009 as demand appears to have dropped out of the market. Gartner is now forecasting a drop of 11.9 percent in 2009 from 2008, the sharpest unit decline in history. Before now, the sharpest decline had been in 2001 when unit…
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Free Citrix XenServer for Everybody
Citrix will make its XenServer virtualization platform free to all users for unlimited production deployment, hoping to kick off a new wave of server virtualization for SMBs and midmarket customers. While basic hypervisors have been available at no charge for years, most aren’t much use in an actual production environment, says John Humphreys, senior director…
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Recession Is No Time to Retreat
Let’s start by stating the obvious: the economy is bad. This is shaping up to be the worst recession in living memory. Unemployment is at nearly 30-year highs, GDP shrank more than 6 percent in the last quarter and the government is spending more than $1.5 trillion (that’s a 13-digit number) of money it doesn’t…
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IBM Global Financing to JumpStart IT Spending
Think you can’t benefit from President Obama’s U.S. Stimulus Spending Bill because your customers are leasing technology and computer equipment rather than buying it? Think again. IBM Global Financing has introduced "JumpStart Rates." The idea is this: IBM Global financing acquires the computer equipment and benefits from the stimulus funds, then passes through that benefit…
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Nexsan Introduces iSCSI SAN for SMBs, Midmarket
Nexsan broadens its product line with a new iSCSI SAN aimed at solution providers whose small and midsize business and midmarket customers need to mix-and-match storage connectivity in a single chassis. The new iSeries offers iSCSI, Fibre Channel and NAS (network-attached storage) configurations from the same system and provides twice the capacity of similar solutions, up to 1PB…