Tag: business

  • Business Spending Hit $59 billion in 2010: NPD Report

    Nathan Eddy

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    Bouncing back to above pre-recession levels, sales of technology products to businesses through U.S. distributors, commercial technology resellers and office products dealers rose 12 percent to almost $59 billion in 2010, according to a report from NPD Group. Last year’s rebound in business spending followed a 9 percent decline in 2009, according to NPD Group’s… Read more

  • SAP’s Aggressive Business Application Roadmap

    Channel Insider Staff

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    BOSTON—SAP is promising an aggressive 2011 roadmap for new applications that leverage its in-memory technology as well as a new release of its HANA system that company officials say enterprises could use instead of traditional databases from rivals such as IBM, Microsoft and Oracle. At a daylong event here March 9, SAP executives outlined 10… Read more

  • HP Denies Report Its PC Business Is for Sale

    Channel Insider Staff

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    Hewlett-Packard officials have moved quickly to stamp out rumors that the company was planning to sell its PC business. In a terse two-paragraph statement issued March 10, Bill Wohl, HP’s senior vice president and chief communications officer, said the rumors were unfounded and illogical, and took aim at the source of the rumors. "Irresponsible reporting… Read more

  • MSP CSG Healthnet Solutions Sinks its Teeth into Dental Market

    Chris Talbot

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    Stricter regulations over the management of patient records combined with a technology world that is moving more towards the public cloud and managed services places additional hurdles in front of healthcare businesses and their trusted IT advisors, but with these challenges come rewards for integrators and MSPs. Regulations and a changing IT landscape are creating… Read more

  • NetApp Acquires LSI’s Large-Scale Storage Business

    Channel Insider Staff

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    SANTA CLARA, Calif. — Just as there is a trend toward convergence of functionality in data center systems these days, there is an equal amount of convergence among entire companies in the data-storage sector. NetApp on March 9 joined the ranks of companies adding “big data” storage capabilities when it announced the acquisition of LSI… Read more

  • Skype, Citrix Partner on Web and Audio Conferencing

    Jennifer Lawinski

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    Skype and Citrix are combining forces on Web and audio conferencing, Skype’s vice president and general manager David Gurlé announced in his keynote address at the Enterprise Connect 2011 conference in Orlando, Fla. The partnership expands the Skype for Business desktop experience by providing meeting and collaboration features for businesses of all sizes. The platform… Read more