Recent Articles
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Comparative Analysis: VOIP PBX for Small Business
Knowledge of voice over IP has become so ubiquitous that many falsely believe it’s a simple, ubiquitous technology available to business environments of all sizes. The truth is VOIP integrated with PBX and SIP trunking services has a low penetration in small businesses, those with fewer than 25 seats. New technologies are bringing integrated VOIP…
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Xerox’s Phaser 6128MFP: Just What the Workgroup Ordered
Xerox is looking to help build up some drama and excitement with its latest iteration of the small workgroup printer by adding multifunction printer capabilities, as well as color and keeping prices down. For just $599, the Xerox Phaser 6128MFP copies, scans and faxes, and prints up to 12 pages per minute in color and…
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Microsoft to Apple Buyers: It’s Hip to Be Square
The surprise hit of the PC market is netbooks. Small Windows- and Linux-based devices provide just enough processing power and functionality in an affordable package (many cases $200 to $300) that consumers and many mobile business users are snapping them up faster than any conventional PC notebook or Mac. That’s got many thinking that in…
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First Person: IBM’s Rich Hume on Partner Charter Changes
This week, IBM updated its business partner charter, a manifesto for how IBM conducts business with its more than 100,000 partners. The IBM partner community consists of large IT vendors to independent software vendors to systems integrators to midmarket solution providers. In this video, Rich Hume, general manager of IBM Global Business Partners, discusses the necessity…
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Dell Eyes Acquisitions Services, Data Center and Storage
Dell won’t sit on the sidelines as Cisco Systems gears up its blade server strategy and IBM pursues Sun Microsystems for its data center assets. At a press conference in Beijing, CEO Michael Dell says the company that bears his name is actively eying acquisitions to give it greater enterprise capabilities in servers, storage, software,…
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IBM Chief to Partners: Get Smarter
IBM has been making a lot of marketing noise lately about making the planet smarter, ranging from complex undertakings such as making the electric grid more efficient to just trying to synchronize traffic lights so cars burn less gas. As noble as all those goals are, however, IBM has been pursuing this ambitious set of…