Tag: strategy
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Credit, Money Strategy: IT Solution Providers Navigate Tight Financing Market
The indirect channel’s ongoing embrace of services and move away from warehousing physical products, coupled with downward pressures on the overall economy, have made it increasingly challenging for solution providers to get loan-approval from banks and other traditional money-lenders. “We are in a fairly esoteric biz and we sell an intangible product. There’s nothing physically… Read more
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HP Strategy Leaves Opening for Apple, Dell: Analysts
Hewlett-Packard’ s plan to spin off its Personal Systems Group, its PC manufacturing arm, could damage the company s position with small to midsize businesses, according to a pair of analysts. ” Our prognosis is that without PSG, HP’ s value proposition will be much weaker in SMBs,” Sanjeev Aggarwal and Laurie McCabe, analysts with… Read more
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Drobo & Carbonite Partner for Storage & Cloud Backup Solutions
Drobo, makers of data storage products for small and midsize businesses, and Carbonite, a provider of online backup solutions which provide customers with "anytime, anywhere access" to their stored files, announced a partnership under which the companies will collaborate to provide small businesses with an onsite storage and cloud backup solution. Pursuant to the partnership,… Read more
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Why HP’s TouchPad Tablet Failed
Categories: Tech CompaniesWhy HP’s TouchPad Tablet Strategy Failed Too Slow to MarketChannel partners at HP’s Americas Partners Conference 2011 in March were clamoring to get their hands on HP’s TouchPad tablets for their end customers that wanted a tablet that supported Flash. But customers were tired of playing the waiting game. Many opted for iPad before Touchpad’s… Read more
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HP’s New Strategy: A Trifecta of Questionable Decisions
Categories: Tech CompaniesHP’s (NYSE:HPQ) recent strategy revelations – dumping its TouchPad tablet and smartphones and webOS, exploring the sale of its PC business, and acquiring software vendor Autonomy for $10 billion – failed to gain widespread support among analysts, stockholders or industry observers. For instance, HP’s share price declined by 20 percent on Friday, the day after… Read more
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HP’s Confounding New Strategy: Partners Respond
Partners are holding their breath following HP’s (NYSE:HPQ) multiple bombshells last week — buying software vendor Autonomy for $10 billion, looking to sell off its PC business and abandoning webOS and dumping its Touchpad tablet and smartphones. While most channel experts expect the ripple effects to travel far with these moves by HP, it is… Read more