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HP ‘Aggressively` Going After Dell`s SMB Customers
SMBs—small and midsize businesses with fewer than 500 employees—will spend about $55 billion on technology products and services each year, and the lion’s share of that belongs to Dell. And that doesn’t sit well with rival Hewlett-Packard. HP officially unveiled SMB Exchange, a concentrated sales team that will target non-HP customers with special offers for…
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IBM Unveils Android, iPhone and Blackberry Support at Lotusphere 2010
If anyone was wondering if IBM was in the mobile game to stay, Big Blue’s slew of announcements at Lotusphere 2010 this week showed a continued commitment to expanding the mobile footprint of Lotus applications into the enterprise. The company unveiled new applications and support for BlackBerry, iPhone and Android. IBM’s annual collaboration conference has…
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IBM Says Small Deals Lead Technology Consulting Rebound
IT consultants are probably already feeling it: the start of a rebound in business. But there’s a difference this time. The rebound is coming mostly in smaller deals rather than in gigantic ones. That may be because businesses are dipping their feet in with jobs that just can’t wait before they dive into a recovery…
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Dell Hit by Server Inventory Shortages
If you’re waiting on a back-ordered Dell server, you’re not alone. Dell confirmed to Channel Insider that it’s experiencing inventory disruptions in some server lines that are causing shipping delays and back orders to partners and customers. Several vendors are affected by a shortage of raw materials used to make components in common IT hardware…
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Microsoft, HP Jointly Reach for the Cloud
At times sounding more like a single entity than two separate corporate giants, Microsoft and Hewlett-Packard today announced a three-year, $250 million technology-integration and go-to-market agreement that spans the entire data center stack from hardware infrastructure up to the application layer. In a press conference, Microsoft chairman and CEO Steve Ballmer and HP CEO Mark…
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IBM Unveils New Midmarket Investments, Solutions for Partners
For years, IBM has been knocked by the channel as arduous to do business with, especially when it comes to developing midmarket solutions and backing them with the right support for partners to sell effectively into that space. IBM has made improvements though, albeit with many fits and starts along the way. IBM’s Express portfolio…