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Dell Says Big Refresh of Enterprise Client Computers Coming
Dell (NASDAQ:DELL) executives believe that the client refreshes that have been delayed for a year or more as companies have cut IT budgets may finally be on the way in nine months to a year, offering the potential to rejuvenate PC sales. What’s coming then? Enterprise fleets of PCs will be 4 to 5 years…
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Level Platforms Enables Monitoring of Cloud-Based SAAS Apps for MSPs
Resellers and solution providers recognize a competitive threat when they see one. That’s why they ranked Microsoft and its software-as-a-service (SAAS) offering as the biggest competitive threat they face—not any apps from Google. Now managed services platform provider Level Platforms is looking to help its MSPs take advantage of the opportunities created by Microsoft’s launch…
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Apple’s iPhone, Mac Seeing Higher Sales to Business
Apple has never been known for its strong reseller channel partner program or its efforts to woo the channel with discounts and back-end rebates. But over the years as Apple’s Mac platform has made inroads into small businesses and workgroups within larger enterprises, the channel has come along for the ride, with or without Apple’s support.…
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Storage Industry Consolidation a Boon for SMBs
Last week’s announcement that NetApp would acquire data deduplication and storage management vendor Data Domain sparked new questions about what continued consolidation among storage vendors would mean for the channel. As IT budgets tighten and businesses of all sizes struggle to do more with less, customers may be less willing to make new technology investments,…
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Data Warehouse Company Intros OEM Partner Program for Google-like Answers to BI Queries
Data warehousing provider Infobright is introducing an OEM partner program for ISVs and software-as-a-service (SAAS) providers. The program marks an expansion of the company’s go-to-market strategy, building on a reseller partner program announced a little over two months ago and Infobright’s announcement last year that it would offer a freely downloadable open-source version of its…
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Mobile Phone Buyers Flock to Smartphones
Looking for another recession-proof technology to sell or integrate into customer sites? Smartphone unit sales—including units from Nokia, the Apple iPhone, the Google Android-based phone from T-Mobile and RIM’s BlackBerry, among others—climbed to more than 36.4 million units worldwide, a 12.7 percent increase from the same period a year ago, according to a new report…