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Next Year’s PC Refresh Forecast: Truth or Fantasy?
From Intel to Dell to HP to Tech Data, a growing number of technology vendors and distributors are predicting a coming PC refresh cycle that is set to hit sometime in 2010 as the existing fleet of PCs in commercial enterprises remains deployed well past its lifespan of two years with some even four or…
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Texas Hold’em: The Secret to Good Peer-to-Peer Partnerships
Vendors the likes of Cisco, Microsoft and IBM have been crooning about creating and enabling peer-to-peer partnerships for the past several years. What vendors say is that connecting local and regional solution providers with synergistic resources and capabilities is a means for enabling two businesses to grow together. Good theory, but exceedingly difficult to pull…
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Healthcare Dollars to Be Had For Solution Providers
Sarah Palin is weighing in on healthcare today, so I figure the topic is fair game – at least from an IT industry perspective. Bottom line, vertical expertise in markets such as healthcare is in demand today and a valuable asset for the channel to have. Solution providers who hone specific industry skills and speak…
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VARs Continue to Struggle in Peripherals Market
Like most of the rest of the technology industry, the hardcopy peripherals market has completed a brutal year, according to IDC’s latest numbers. Overall, the worldwide hardcopy peripherals market declined 21 percent year over year in 2Q09 to 24.1 million units. Shipment value declined 23.2 percent over the same time period to $11.6 billion. The…
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Netbooks, Nettops Threaten 2010 PC Refresh Cycle
Plenty of industry-watchers say that netbooks are cannibalizing sales of traditional notebooks and sacrificing average selling prices of portable PCs. But could that just be the tip of the iceberg? While PC giants such as Dell and HP are forecasting a significant PC refresh cycle for early to mid-2010 as pent up demand and the…
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Printer Unit Market Falls on Weak Demand, Tightened Inventory
Weak demand, tighter inventory controls and shortages of low-end products all contributed to a 20 percent decline for the printer, copier and multifunction printer market for the first half of 2009. That’s according to a new report from Gartner that found that unit shipments totaled 51.3 million in the first half of 2009. The report…