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  • Report: Offshoring to Have No Sudden Bad Effects

    Report: Offshoring to Have No Sudden Bad Effects

    Deborah Perelman

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    While offshore outsourcing is expected to affect wages and employment in developing countries, it won’t have any sudden negative impact on developed countries’ economies, according to a report released Feb. 22 by the McKinsey Quarterly, the business journal of the global management-consulting firm McKinsey & Company. The report “Sizing the Emerging Global Labor Market” attempts… Read more

  • CompTIA to Certify Printing, Document Imaging Technicians

    CompTIA to Certify Printing, Document Imaging Technicians

    Patrick Hoffman

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    The Computing Technology Industry Association announced Feb. 21 that it plans to develop a new certification of IT skills that focuses on the printing and document imaging industry. The seven companies that plan to support this certification program are Xerox, Specialized Solutions, Canon U.S.A., Konica Minolta Business Solutions, Lexmark International, Pitney Bowes and Sharp Electronics.… Read more

  • vPro Allows MSPs to Work the Graveyard Shift

    vPro Allows MSPs to Work the Graveyard Shift

    Jessica Davis

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    No need to be a giant VAR these days to take advantage of the benefits of offshoring some of your labor costs and working during the overnight hours. Silicon-East, a Manalapan, N.J.-based VAR serving the regional area between New York City and Philadelphia, is using Intel’s vPro technology together with an employee based in Israel… Read more

  • Report: IT Service Jobs to Take Biggest Offshoring Hit

    Report: IT Service Jobs to Take Biggest Offshoring Hit

    Deborah Perelman

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    While the loss of service jobs to offshoring in the near future will be modest, metropolitan areas with large concentrations of IT and back-office jobs will be harder hit, finds a report released Feb. 12 by the Brookings Institution, a Washington-based independent research group. Noting that public fervor and coverage of offshoring has noticeably died… Read more

  • SurfControl Adds Vendor Alliances to Partner Portal

    SurfControl Adds Vendor Alliances to Partner Portal

    Jessica Davis

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    IT threat detection technology vendor SurfControl has launched a global alliance program with other vendors designed to enhance its own channel partner program. The new program gives channel partners better integration between SurfControl’s products and products from global alliance vendors including Microsoft, Citrix Systems, Juniper Networks, Celestix Networks, Check Point Software Technologies and Network Engines.… Read more

  • CDW’s January Sales Expected to Rise

    CDW’s January Sales Expected to Rise

    Jessica Davis

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    CDW’s January sales are expected to range from $600 million to $610 million, representing a year-over-year increase in consolidated sales per day of 11 percent to 13 percent, according to a preview report by financial analyst firm Raymond James and Associates. The St. Petersburg, Fla.-based firm issued its report a day ahead of CDW’s expected… Read more