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Medium-sized and Large Business Looking to Invest in IT Again
While large business and medium-sized business are showing more confidence with plans to invest in IT products and IT staff again, small business IT investment may have slipped. That’s according to the most recent survey of IT professionals and the CDW IT Monitor. In the government sector, federal government IT decision makers are showing even…
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IBM, Ingram Micro Bring Simplified Technology to Small Business
IBM authorized resellers and channel partners can now get IBM’s Smart Cube product – billed as an IT department in a box for small business and midsized business — through distributor Ingram Micro, the companies have announced. The combined hardware, software and technical support solution that features an IBM server together with applications such as…
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Watching Old Friends Become Enemies
In a global virtual press and analyst roundtable, Cisco CTO Padmasree Warrior said blade servers being developed by Cisco for its Unified Computing Systems are not intended to compete with existing servers offered by IBM, Dell, Hewlett-Packard or Sun Microsystems. Rather, she says, the UCS strategy is to put the assets in place to help…
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Cisco Sets Limits to Cloud Strategy
Cisco Systems’ Padmasree Warrior says the networking giant has no plans to fully engage in cloud computing market, but rather act as a player that supports and enables the remote delivery of applications and services. In a virtual roundtable with journalists and analysts around the world, Cisco’s chief technology officer described Cisco’s boundary in the…
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Could Channel Help Dell Succeed With Handheld?
Dell may be giving another go in the mobile handheld device marketplace, according to a speculative report published by the Wall Street Journal yesterday. According to unnamed sources, the planned device would run on Google Android and operate as an Internet-only device similar to Apple’s iTouch. Currently Dell is not commenting on the matter, but…