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CCIE Certification in Demand as IT Job Market Heats Up
If you’ve been waiting for an economic recovery to start your IT job search, now’s the time to pull the trigger. Joe Iovinelli, CEO of IT recruitment company SmartSource, tells Channel Insider that demand for senior-level systems engineers and networking engineers has tripled in the last four months. What’s more, candidates are getting multiple offers,…
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Dell Quarter Sales Beat Estimates, But Supplies Tight
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Dell Inc’s (NASDAQ:DELL) quarterly sales and profit beat expectations but its gross margin fell short of analysts’ forecasts and the computer maker warned that components supply will remain tight. Dell, whose shares fell 3 percent after the results on Thursday, has been struggling to boost profitability due to both sales of…
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Microsoft, Polycom, HP Team on Unified Communications
Microsoft, Hewlett-Packard and Polycom are among the founding members of an alliance created to push interoperability between unified communications offerings using currently established standards. Other founding members of the UCIF (Unified Communications Interoperability Forum) include Juniper Networks and Logitech, which late last year bought video conferencing vendor LifeSize Communications. >> Click here to read the…
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Cisco Acquires Consumer Device Design Firm, Moto
Cisco Systems is continuing its push into the consumer space with the acquisition of Moto Development Group, a privately held company with a history of helping create consumer devices, including Cisco’s Flip video camera. Cisco officials said Moto’s 35-member team will complement Cisco’s own consumer business and enhance its product road map. The consumer space…
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Technology Giants HP, IBM Retool Channel Programs in Midmarket Push
As if HP doesn’t have enough on its plate with its escalating war with Cisco (data center), and the multi-billion-dollar 3Com (networking) and Palm (mobility) acquisitions, the company has decided to tackle the $7.5 billion midsize enterprise market . The world’s largest IT vendor is announcing the HP ten.to.one (10,000-1,000 employees) initiative that includes new…
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Google Apps Sweetheart Serena Software Switches Back to Microsoft BPOS
Just a little more than a year after touting its move from Microsoft Exchange to Google Gmail, Serena Software has decided to make the switch back to Microsoft and dump its Google Apps support. Unlike the University of California, Davis, which dumped Gmail over security and privacy concerns earlier this month, Serena’s reason was much…