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Where’s the Channel in Dell’s Surprisingly Good Earnings Report?
Dell surprised Wall Street minutes before the closing bell of trading yesterday by releasing better than expected quarterly earnings and profit report. Analysts had expected recession and competitive pressures to keep Dell’s earnings in check and cap margins at 17.7 percent. But Dell shocked The Street with margins a full percentage point higher. Does the…
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Printer Unit Market Falls on Weak Demand, Tightened Inventory
Weak demand, tighter inventory controls and shortages of low-end products all contributed to a 20 percent decline for the printer, copier and multifunction printer market for the first half of 2009. That’s according to a new report from Gartner that found that unit shipments totaled 51.3 million in the first half of 2009. The report…
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Salesforce.com Eyes VARs as Cloud Computing Partners
Salesforce.com on Wednesday threw a stake in the ground to demonstrate that its cloud computing platform offers a viable profitability engine for its partners. The software-as-a-service pioneer launched a new reseller partner program that allows consulting VAR partners to resell Salesforce.com’s Force.com enterprise cloud computing platform. The company is looking for partners to resell the…
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FastBack Technology Makes Tivoli Storage an MSP Tool
IBM’s Tivoli Storage technology has gotten more relevant for managed service providers and midmarket customers. That’s because IBM’s Tivoli Storage now offers functionality that enables data protection and recovery of data in remote locations and smaller locations in the form of FastBack. IBM acquired the technology last year when it bought FilesX, a company that…
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Yahoo to Compete with Bing Despite Microsoft Deal
(Reuters) – Yahoo Inc said on Monday it has revamped its search to compete against Microsoft Corp’s Bing, even as it relies on the Redmond giant to power its queries. The announcement of plans to put a new face on Yahoo Messenger and Mail and add functions to its search engine came after news that…