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HP Drops Quarter Forecast, Hints at Layoffs
HP (NYSE:HPQ) CEO Leo Apotheker hinted at layoffs in a memo to top executives and then pulled the company’s earnings announcement forward by a day after that memo was leaked and a story published by Bloomberg. The HP layoff news comes a week after Cisco (NASDAQ:CSCO) CEO John Chambers promised $1 billion in cost cutting…
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Lenovo’s IT Mettle vs. Google Chromebook
Image via Wikipedia Google’s Chromebook notebook play, announced during the company’s Google I/O conference, may be aimed at businesses, governments, and educational institutions, as well as consumers, but will any of these end-users or end-user organizations be interested in buying what Google wants to sell, or lease, as the case may be? Google’s hardware-as-a-service (HaaS)…
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IBM’s New Program Tries to Lure Customers Away from the Competition
IBM has launched yet another effort to get its competitors’ customers to move over to IBM’s software and systems. In particular, IBM is targeting Oracle with new migration resources to help Oracle software customers switch to IBM software. The new resources include no-charge financial and technology assessments, skills training courses, and proof of concepts to…
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HP Introduces Network Management Center 9.1 for MSPs, Cloud Management
Hewlett-Packard announced the launch of HP Network Management Center version 9.1, adding additional features for managed service providers, cloud computing and unified communications management. For MSPs, HP has introduced multi-tenancy capability and security groups that allow users to separate data and views into secure partitions. MSPs can manage multiple clients, departments or sites within the…
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This Week’s Cloud Outage: Microsoft BPOS
Image by liber via Flickr Does anything whip end-users into a bigger frenzy than an email outage? That’s just what Microsoft BPOS customers and their ever-suffering IT administrators were dealing with this week as Microsoft experienced downtime for its hosted Microsoft Exchange email service, as reported here and here and here. The stories include tales…
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Dell Adds New Premiere Top Tier to PartnerDirect
Dell is enhancing its PartnerDirect channel program by adding a third tier and rewarding partners who pursue multiple certifications with the company. Dell’s Paul Schaffer, worldwide channel marketing director told Channel Insider that the three-and-a-half year old partner program last week looked like this: Certified Partners – those with one or more certifications and a…
