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PC Maker Dell Adds Channel Veteran to PartnerDirect Team
Channel veteran Nancy Reynolds’ appointment by Dell to the position of director of business strategy for the PC maker’s year-and-a-half-old channel program, focusing on the large enterprise sector, very well may be the signal solution providers are looking for that Dell is serious about the channel. After all, while Dell announced plans to create a…
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IBM Sales Expected to Meet Forecast
IBM (NYSE:IBM) is likely to meet revenue expectations when it announces its Q2 earnings later today, and may even beat expectations on earnings per share. A weakening U.S. dollar will provide a boost to revenues for the second quarter and the rest of the year, says Bernstein Research in a report previewing IBM’s earnings. Other factors…
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Microsoft Finally Makes a Video Worth Watching
We’ve lived through the disastrous, albeit brief, string of Bill Gates and Jerry Seinfeld commercials–advertisements that were truly about nothing. We watched as Microsoft desperately tried to fend off the damning Apple “Mac vs. PC” commercials with the “I’m a PC” spot, which many people responded, “I don’t care.” And we’ve watched Megan and San…
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HP Swipes at Cisco UCS Strategy
At a recent press event, Cisco CTO Padmasree Warrior said the networking giant wasn’t looking to undercut the existing server market leaders–Hewlett-Packard and IBM–with its forthcoming virtualized blade servers and Unified Computing System strategy. Rather, Warrior said UCS was about building better, next-generation data centers. Obviously a “next-generation data center” will mean displacing the existing…