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Social Media Use Continues to Expand Communications Channels
Social Media Use Continues to Expand Communications Channels How Big Is the IT Market? IT decision makers’ reach is extensive. 43% of U.S. IT decision makers work outside IT, 15 million U.S. IT decision makers, $820B in U.S. IT spending Acquiring New Customers Can Be Costly The channel needs to find ways to reduce new…
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HP Looks to the Channel to Make Moonshot
Every now and again a new innovation shows up in enterprise IT that promises to change the status quo in a way that creates numerous opportunities for the channel. The latest example of this is a new class of servers based on low-energy processors that can be densely packed together to run a wide variety…
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InFocus Unveils Touch System Running Windows 8
By Michael Vizard InFocus has unveiled a 55-inch touch-screen PC intended for use in environments where the need to collaborate is essential or where the application is being deployed in a kiosk environment. It ships with the Windows 8 Professional operating system. The BigTouch system is an all-in-one PC that can be deployed in conference…
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Hadoop Gets a Lot More Channel Friendly
While the amount of interest in Big Data at the moment may far exceeds the actual number of IT projects being launched using the technology platform; it’s clear that technologies such as Hadoop are creating a significant new opportunity for the channel. Solution providers looking to take advantage of those opportunities should take note of…
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IBM Partners Using PureSystems to Capture Intellectual Property
One of the problems that solution providers have is that much of their intellectual property is inside the heads of their employees. When those employees leave, they tend to take a fair amount of that expertise with them. Marie Wieck, IBM general manager for WebSphere, says that one of the more interesting use cases that…
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Putting a Better Big Data Face on Windows 8
With the rise of Big Data the single most compelling reason to upgrade any client system is going to be the ability to actually visualize all that data. Existing systems by and large do a poor job of visualization, especially when compared to Windows 8 or the MacOS running on the latest next-generation processor from…
