Tag: IT

  • Can Cisco Reshape the IT World?

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    Project California was one of the worst-kept secrets in tech history. The semi-leaked blog that announced Cisco Systems’ data center intentions last December was the first shot in what could be the looming war between the networking giant and the rest of the IT marketplace. The unveiling of Unified Computing System—as Cisco calls it—could spell… Read more

  • Follow the IT Money

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    When you’re a solution provider, you can either spend your time trying to persuade people to do something or you can spend your time making money by helping do things they already want to do. With that in mind, solution providers might want to take note of a Ziff Davis Enterprise survey of senior IT… Read more

  • Big Companies to Spend on IT Hardware

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    About four out of five midsize and large companies plan to buy IT hardware in the next six months—a statistic that is in stark contrast to recent analyst reports of hardware sales declines in 2009. The note of optimism comes out of the CDW IT Monitor, CDW’s bimonthly survey of 1,000 IT professionals about their spending plans… Read more

  • IBM Global Financing to JumpStart IT Spending

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    Think you can’t benefit from President Obama’s U.S. Stimulus Spending Bill because your customers are leasing technology and computer equipment rather than buying it? Think again. IBM Global Financing has introduced "JumpStart Rates." The idea is this: IBM Global financing acquires the computer equipment and benefits from the stimulus funds, then passes through that benefit… Read more

  • 6 IT Security Strategies for 2009

    6 IT Security Strategies for 2009
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    6 IT Security Strategies for 2009 Spammers and cybercriminals are working harder than ever to develop ever-sneakier ways to launch an attack. In anticipation of a 2009 filled with increasingly sophisticated threats from spammers, here are some top strategies IT and security pros can use to thwart the bad guys, compiled from security experts from… Read more

  • Making IT Buying Easier

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    Have your customers’ IT requirements changed just because their IT budgets have been cut? Does this long recession we are in mean that those ancient PCs at your customer site are suddenly good for another year or two? Of course not. Your customers still need the technology. What they don’ t have right now are… Read more