Recent Articles
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Using Social Media to Market VAR Business
Social media marketing may simply be a new technology attached to an old marketing method (word of mouth), but using it effectively can improve relations with existing customers and – over time – generate net new business for VARs. Social media experts offer some tips as to how to do just that. As an extension…
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IBM Cloud Certification Demonstrates Expertise, Partners Say
Looking for proof that the move to cloud computing is already underway? Just ask IT solution provider Ultramatics. At the beginning of 2010 when the company spoke with its customers to discuss their IT needs, more than a third said they were looking to buy some kind of technology as a service, according to David…
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Hewlett-Packard’s Palm Acquisition Gains FTC Approval
The stockholders have scheduled a special meeting for Friday, June 25, to vote on the proposed merger. Hewlett-Packard moved a step closer to officially owning smartphone-maker Palm June 1, when the Federal Trade Commission gave its approval of the acquisition, granting the early termination of a waiting period imposed by a 1976 antitrust act. “The…
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Video to Lead Internet Traffic Growth, Cisco Report Projects
Cisco announced the results of the annual Cisco Visual Networking Index (VNI) Forecast, 2009-2014, which projected global Internet traffic will increase more than fourfold to 767 exabytes (an exabyte equals one quintillion bytes) by 2014. This amount is 100 exabytes higher than the projected level in 2013, or an increase the equivalent of 10 times…
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HP Offers Collaboration, Network Solutions at a Price for Small Business
HP is taking the concept behind its Converged Infrastructure strategy of pre-integrated, pre-tested solutions designed for the enterprise and data center to small and midsized businesses at a price point designed for them. The technology giant has announced new communication, collaboration and networking solutions for small business and midsized business, as well as new storage…
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Microsoft CEO: Mobile Revolution No Threat to Windows
Calif (Reuters) – Microsoft Corp Chief Executive Steve Ballmer said the transition from PCs to smartphones and tablets is a time of "potential tumult" in the technology industry, but said the software maker will continue to prosper in the changing market. Ballmer said that Microsoft’s Windows operating system, currently used in the vast majority of…
