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Cisco Boosts Partner Profitability on Core Routing/Switching
Cisco Systems is trying to make it more profitable for its partners to sell core routing and switching products in an effort to take advantage of what the vendor sees as a global $23 billion (US) opportunity. As part of the Navigate To Accelerate program, the new Core Accelerator promotion provides additional margin and profit…
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Dell Seeks to Recapture U.S. Market Share
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Dell Inc DELL.O is still cautious about corporate technology spending, but plans to make acquisitions and aggressively pursue enterprise customers in an effort to win back market share in the United States. Steve Schuckenbrock, president of the No. 2 PC maker’s large enterprise business, said on Thursday that corporations in…
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NetApp Chief: ‘We`re Not for Sale’
Ever since Cisco Systems unveiled its blade server strategy and Sun Microsystems revealed its desires to be bought, analysts and industry observers have questioned the viability of storage area network pioneer NetApp and speculated that it would be the next victim of industry consolidation. The day after announcing intentions to acquire deduplication vendor DataDomain, CEO…
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Tech Data Opens Apple Lab for iPhone, iPod and Apple Computers
While consumers may be the ones buying the iPod, iPhone and Apple computers, many businesses have become more open to integrating these devices into their IT environments, and that spells opportunity for resellers. That’s why IT distributor Tech Data is launching an Apple Lab to help its reseller channel partners and their end customers to…
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HP’s CEO: Not Ready to Call It Better
While Intel’s (NASDAQ:INTC) and Avnet’s (NYSE:AVT) CEOs have recently mentioned the word “bottom” when referring to the current economic crisis, that’s not a word that was in Hewlett-Packard (NYSE:HPQ) CEO Mark Hurd’s vocabulary during the computer giant’s second-quarter conference call with analysts this week. Instead, HP’s CEO provided a more conservative outlook on the state…
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McAfee Aims to Knock Symantec Out of HP’s Shop
McAfee, the second largest security software company, is aiming to completely undo larger rival Symantec’s longstanding alliance with Hewlett-Packard by replacing Big Yellow’s anti-virus software on all HP personal computers. In a Reuters interview, McAfee CEO Dave DeWalt said his company is trying to convince HP to drop Symantec’s products from its PC distributions and…