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Konica Minolta Set to Launch New Printing Software
Categories: News and TrendsKonica Minolta Business Solutions U.S.A. announced April 11 that it will unveil its Printgroove software next week at the 2007 On Demand Conference in Boston. Printgroove provides businesses, CRD (central reproduction departments) and small and midsize print shops with software that can manage, monitor and set up the company’s various bizhub MFP (multifunction printer) platforms,… Read more
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VARs Turn to Peer Networks
Categories: News and TrendsVARs, system integrators and other types of channel partners these days are relying more and more on a less commonly discussed source for new business leads and problem-solving information—each other. The trend, which has been building for several years, according to IDC analysts, has accelerated during the last year or two, most recently with the… Read more
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How to Tackle the IT Skill Shortage
Categories: News and TrendsCisco Systems told channel partners the week of April 2 that it would help them tackle one of their most vexing problems—finding skilled IT workers. Among other initiatives, the vendor is considering creating a portal for sharing with partners the resumes of candidates for jobs at Cisco. Meanwhile, a bill was being introduced in the… Read more
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Citrix to Corporate IT: Application Delivery Is Strategic
Categories: News and TrendsCitrix Systems has made a bid to become a top-tier applications infrastructure provider by calling on enterprises to recognize the strategic value of the technologies that speed response times for Web-based or Windows desktop applications. To bolster its message, Citrix on April 9 rallied a handful of applications providers and systems integrators to help educate… Read more
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Cisco to Lend Partners an HR Hand
Categories: Tech CompaniesLAS VEGAS—Cisco Systems is setting out to help channel partners with what they say is the No. 1 inhibitor to growth—talent recruitment, retention and training. That’s according to Keith Goodwin, Cisco’s channel chief, who said the San Jose, Calif.-based networking giant is in the early stages of building an initiative to help partners “plan for… Read more
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Microsoft Changes Vista Licensing to Cover New Deployment Models
Categories: News and TrendsMicrosoft has made changes to its licensing model for Windows Vista to meet the needs of enterprise customers in the finance and government sectors using bleeding-edge technologies. The Redmond, Wash.-based software giant will announce April 2 a subscription license called Windows Vista Enterprise Centralized Desktops, which allows customers to use Windows in virtual machines centralized… Read more