Tag: application

  • Ingram Micro Extends Lease Financing to SMB VARs

    Jessica Davis

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    SMB VARs looking take advantage of the technology refresh cycle currently underway through lease financing deals now have a new financing vehicle available to them. IT distribution giant Ingram Micro has announced an expansion of its lease financing partners and program to include SMB VARs. Available now through Ingram Micro’s Preferred Leasing, or IMPL, program,… Read more

  • Embedded Database Vendors Face Challenges

    Embedded Database Vendors Face Challenges

    Brian Prince

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    For software developers, choosing the right embedded database can make all the difference when it comes to performance and reliability. As the embedded database market continues to grow, vendors are planning to leverage a combination of technology and partnerships to expand their offerings. Key users of embedded databases—database systems that are part of an application—are… Read more

  • Exchange 2007 SP1 Could Finally Spark Upgrades

    Exchange 2007 SP1 Could Finally Spark Upgrades

    Sharon Linsenbach

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    Hosted Application provider GroupSpark is making Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 Service Pack 1 available to its partners today, hoping to capitalize on the ‘low-hanging fruit’ of customers who waited for the Service Pack’s release to upgrade. Ravi Agarwal, CEO of Burlington, Mass.-based GroupSpark and a Microsoft Gold partner, said his company’s channel partners were demanding… Read more

  • AMR: Retail Software Sales to Top $10 Billion by 2011

    AMR: Retail Software Sales to Top $10 Billion by 2011

    Evan Schuman

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    A retail community with aging merchandising applications and the need to quickly strengthen merged channel technology will fuel a sharp growth in retail software purchases over the next few years, according to a new report from AMR Research. Retail software sales last year were $7.3 billion, with a compound annual growth rate of 7 percent… Read more

  • Citrix Rounds Out Virtualization

    Citrix Rounds Out Virtualization

    Paula Musich

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    Citrix Systems at its iForum conference on Oct. 22 will demonstrate to customers just how broad its definition of application delivery really is when it launches new virtualization technology along with new communications, security and power management features embedded in its flagship Presentation Server line. With the close of its XenSource acquisition, Citrix will launch… Read more

  • ConnectWise Partnership Adds Web Browsing Controls

    Jessica Davis

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    ConnectWise partners looking to add greater control over Web browsing and Internet application activity to their MSP services will now be able to get those services from the Tampa, Fla.-based software provider. The professional service automation software company announced Oct. 17 that it will offer Cymphonix’s Network Composer technology to its 16,000 users worldwide as… Read more