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Microsoft Cloud Service Provider Enterhost Launches Partner Program
Internet cloud services provider Enterhost is reaching out to potential partners with the launch of its new channel program, announced at the MSPWorld conference in Austin, Texas. Enterhost, a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner, is a customized cloud-solution provider specializing in Windows applications with a focus on cloud desktop and private cloud services. The company also…
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10 Things Meg Whitman Must Do to Save HP
10 Things Meg Whitman Must Do to Save HP Bring Back the TouchPadThe first order of business for Whitman must be bringing back the HP TouchPad. HP’s tablet, which did not sell very well at its original price, flew off store shelves when it was offered for $99. And now, there is a huge installed…
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HP’s Whitman Era: Partners Should Proceed with Caution
If Hewlett Packard paid its channel partners the way it pays its ousted CEOs, solution providers would be sitting on sacks of money. Leo Apotheker, whom HP rather unceremoniously announced has been ousted after 11 months on the job, is getting a $25 million golden parachute, according to published reports. Not bad. It’s certainly enough…
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IBM Report Finds IT Departments Favor Solid-State Storage Technology
IT professionals are embracing high-performance solid-state disks to support growing data storage demands driven by cloud computing and analytics technologies, a survey by technology giant IBM revealed. More than half (57 percent) of the customers surveyed responded that their organizations need to develop a new storage approach to manage future growth. The survey of 250…
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‘HP Matters’ Says Incoming CEO Meg Whitman
Hewlett-Packard, which desperately needed a better communicator and executor of business strategy at the top of its organization, introduced its new CEO, Meg Whitman, to an audience of press and analysts on a conference call a mere one hour after announcing her appointment on Sept. 22. Following a full day of speculation, Whitman replaced former…
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IBM Offers Cloud Training, Resources to Partners
This week IBM locked its targets in on enabling its channel to take better advantage of the cloud by rolling out a new initiative that it says will provide partners the means to improve their cloud skill sets and minimize the steps required to start selling cloud-based solutions. Offered initially as a pilot program to…
