Recent Articles
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7 Ways to Drive Additional Revenue with Windows 7
With Windows 7 as the heir-apparent to the eight-year-old XP operating system (Vista? What Vista?), VARs are gearing up to lead their customers into the transition. For the smallest businesses, this will happen by default as their typical purchasing venues sell only Windows 7 machines. But the rest will rely on VARs to lead the…
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IBM`s Mid-Market Push
IBM is hell-bent on become the preferred technology and services provider for mid-market customers globally. And in true big-Blue form, they’ve focused thousands of people and a lot of money to get there. With nearly 25% marketshare across their broad portfolio in the mid-market globally, they’re starting to gain meaningfully broad traction in the sub-1,000-user…
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HP, Cisco Initiatives Highlight Data Center Convergence
Got unified computing? These days vendors are pushing these technologies—preintegrated storage, servers, networking and virtualization—in the form of products or reference designs as the answer for all that ails the data center. The message to customers is that these systems make things all work together more efficiently, saving management time, improving system functions and perhaps…
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Workshare Offers Workshare Compare for PowerPoint
Microsoft partners looking to add some incremental value to Microsoft Office sales, take heed. Workshare has introduced Workshare Compare for PowerPoint, software that tracks changes to Power Point presentations that have been edited and reviewed by users besides the author. It’s a need that’s on the rise. Workshare says that about 30 million PowerPoint presentations…
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Symantec Reveals 2010 Channel Plan at Partner Engage Conference
Security and storage channel providers converged in Orlando, Fla., this week to meet up with representatives at Symantec for the company’s annual Partner Engage conference. The intensive day-and-a-half event is highlighted by several sneak peeks into Symantec’s channel plans for 2010, including a new demo platform and a newly adjusted renewal incentive plan tweaked to…
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Intel Accused of Kickbacks in Antitrust Suit
(Reuters) – Intel Corp was sued by New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo, who accused the world’s largest chipmaker of threatening computer makers and paying billions of dollars in kickbacks to maintain its market dominance. The lawsuit accuses Intel of violating state and federal antitrust law through a "systematic worldwide campaign" of bullying and coercion…