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  • Acer Vows to Continue Netbook Production

    Channel Insider Staff

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    Acer will continue to manufacture netbooks, even as many of its manufacturing rivals shift their focus to super-thin ultrabooks and tablets. Netbooks once proved a white-hot seller, snatched up by consumers interested in their low price and portability. Two opposing forces helped wither that market: manufacturers own desire to push products with higher margins (in… Read more

  • Businesses Not Ready to Support Mobile Workers: Citrix

    Channel Insider Staff

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    Citrix announced findings from a recent global survey that examined how consumer-focused communications devices are being increasingly adopted in the workplace, revealing small to medium-size businesses (SMBs) are coming under growing pressure to enable their employees to use their personal smartphones, tablets and other devices for business use. Some 25 percent of companies are already… Read more

  • Google Chromebooks From Samsung, Acer Discounted to $299

    Channel Insider Staff

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    Google (NASDAQ:GOOG) Chromebooks, the notebooks running the lightweight Chrome Operating System designed for powering Web applications through the Chrome browser, are getting discounted to $299. Google introduced the Chrome notebooks from Samsung and Acer at the Google I/O developer conference last May as speedy machines that boot up in less than eight seconds and power… Read more

  • Why MSPs Have Nothing to Fear from Best Buy

    Pedro Pereira

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    Don’t panic, folks. Best Buy’s planned entrance into the managed services market will have as much impact on the IT channel as a gnat flying into a pane of glass. You may get a little spot on the glass, but the pane won’t budge. The reason is simple: Best Buy cannot compete with the managed… Read more

  • Aruba Networks Buys Avenda Systems to Enhance Security Portfolio

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    Aruba Networks will buy privately held Avenda Systems to bolster its network security portfolio to help organizations protect personal devices being used in the enterprise. Aruba Networks will offer enterprises a single management console that can secure all devices being used within the enterprise and apply consistent security policies, Hitesh Sheth, chief operating officer at… Read more

  • CA Puts Focus on Cloud to Enable Business Services

    Ericka Chickowski

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    Looking to help IT decision makers with the tools to get the most out of the leading edge infrastructure today, CA put the focus on CA Cloud 360 this week at CA World. At the center of its cloud plans, CA’s Cloud 360  lets IT analyze service-level performance and manage SLAs, survey and analyze their… Read more