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Credit, Money Strategy: IT Solution Providers Navigate Tight Financing Market
The indirect channel’s ongoing embrace of services and move away from warehousing physical products, coupled with downward pressures on the overall economy, have made it increasingly challenging for solution providers to get loan-approval from banks and other traditional money-lenders. “We are in a fairly esoteric biz and we sell an intangible product. There’s nothing physically…
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Disk Storage Systems Market Sees Strong Growth: IDC Report
Worldwide external disk storage systems factory revenues posted year-over-year growth of 12.2 percent, totaling just over $5.6 billion, in the second quarter of 2011, according to IDC’s worldwide quarterly disk storage systems tracker. For the quarter, the total disk storage systems market grew to just shy of $7.5 billion in revenues, representing a 10.2 percent…
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The Death of the PC Business
The Death of the PC Business What Leo Apotheker was thinking by looking to spin off his company’s PC business is anyone’s guess. HP is the world’s top PC company, easily overshadowing all others in the marketplace. The fact that Apotheker would rather ditch the PC business than try and solve its troubles is telling—and…
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Symantec, VMware to Offer Secure Desktop-as-a-Service Solution
Virtual desktops with security built-in are coming soon to enterprises and IT service providers, according to Symantec and VMware. Symantec and VMware expanded their strategic partnership to offer desktop-as-a-service applications with integrated security and management, Symantec said Aug. 31. The combined offering will combine Symantec Endpoint Protection and the Altiris Client Management Suite with VMware’s…
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Widows 8 Ready for Both Tablets and PCs, Microsoft Exec Says
Ahead of September s BUILD conference, Microsoft is taking steps to position its upcoming Windows 8 as a platform meant equally for tablets and traditional PCs. Even before it began offering sanctioned glimpses of Windows 8 earlier this summer, Microsoft touted the operating system s interoperability with tablets. During this past January’s Consumer Electronics Show…
