Tag: IT

  • D-Link Faces Branding Battle as It Moves Upstream in Business Market

    D-Link Faces Branding Battle as It Moves Upstream in Business Market

    John Hazard

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    D-Link, primarily known for its network switches and routers in the consumer market, may be coming to an office near you. Actually, it may already be there and you don’t even know it. As many as 12 percent of businesses with 1,000 or more employees say they use D-Link equipment in their WLAN (wireless LAN),… Read more

  • EDS Takes Over IT for Auto-Parts Maker, NaviSite Expands in India

    John Moore

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    EDS Helps Affinia Go Global Electronic Data Systems Corp. has been pulled into the midst of a restructuring program at Affinia Group Inc., which makes and distributes auto parts for the aftermarket. On Monday, EDS said it will manage much of the Ann Arbor, Mich.-based company’s information technology infrastructure. The 7-year deal spans Affinia Group’s… Read more

  • ‘Information’ Part of IT is VARs’ Best Option

    ‘Information’ Part of IT is VARs’ Best Option

    Pedro Pereira

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    Las Vegas: The information-technology industry has always focused more on the technology than the information. But as margins tighten and customers seek more value, it’s time to shift the spotlight to information, Xerox North America President James A. Firestone told a gathering of VARs on Wednesday. “The t side [of the information-technology equation] is all… Read more

  • IT Consulting Forecast Good, But With Challenges

    IT Consulting Forecast Good, But With Challenges

    Pedro Pereira

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    The next five years hold a lot of opportunity for IT consultants as clients strive to maximize their competitiveness in a “more for less economy,” according to James Champy, chairman of consulting at Perot Systems Corp. But for clients to maximize the benefits of IT outsourcing and consulting, they must not lose sight of the… Read more

  • Increasingly, Consultants are the Key to IT Projects

    Increasingly, Consultants are the Key to IT Projects

    Elliot Markowitz

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    IT consultants are gaining influence inside enterprise accounts and with their SMB counterparts—and for good reason. With technology initiatives becoming more tightly tied to an organization’s overall business strategy, the influence of and need for a sophisticated IT consultant partner to help strategize, organize and manage the deployment process is becoming vital to the success… Read more

  • SMBs Basking in IT Industry Attention

    SMBs Basking in IT Industry Attention

    John Pallatto

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    IT companies frequently talk as if the small and midsize business market they are all competing to serve is some newly discovered continent that is theirs to conquer. But the fact is that companies like IBM, Hewlett-Packard, Sun Microsystems, Computer Associates, Microsoft, Oracle, SAP and a host of others have been selling hardware or software… Read more