Recent Articles
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Do Microsoft’s Server Moves Indicate a Shift to the Cloud?
Microsoft’s recent decision to end support for Intel’s Itanium chip in its server architecture, along with the elimination of its Essential Business Server (EBS) development, suggests that the company is trying to reposition to take advantage of several developing business IT trends, including virtualization and cloud computing. That paradigm shift is also mirrored on the…
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ATandT Adds More Fuel To SMB Wireless Fire
Report after report indicates the growing importance of wireless technology to small and medium businesses, which means the growing importance of wireless technology to the channel. Now you can throw in another proof point, a national study by AT&T that found that wireless technologies are becoming increasingly crucial to survival for today’s small businesses, who…
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Coraid Takes Efficient, Inexpensive SATA Storage Solution to Channel
VMware veteran Josh Leslie’s goal at his new employer, Coraid, is to take sales of the storage technology vendor 100 percent through the channel. Coraid provides a less expensive storage solution called EtherDrive—Leslie said it can be one-tenth of the price of competitive products—that appeals to all sizes of business but especially makes virtualization more…
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Health Care Opportunities Beyond Economic Stimulus
Health care IT continues to be one of the only industries surviving and thriving in today’s current struggling economy. Sure, stimulus money is driving electronic health record purchases of software and supporting services, but there’s other opportunities out there for entrepreneurial VARs looking for a piece of the pie. Atlanta-based Manage Mobility is one technology…
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CompTIA Targets Security, Open Source, Small Business with Member Communities
The Computing Technology Industry Association (CompTIA) is hoping to better serve the IT industry with the rollout of seven new collaborative communities designed to gather input from a range of industry segments for a deeper dive into the concerns of IT’s most important niches. Announced last week, the communities will be a way for CompTIA’s…
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Resellers Still Waiting for Apple Answer on iPad Sales
Image by d!zzy via Flickr Nearly two weeks after Apple announced its iPad tablet, sparking gadget lust among both consumers and business users who have to wait weeks and weeks to get their hands on the device, Apple has yet to let its resellers know whether they will have access to the product to sell…
