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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…
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IBM CEO Sam Palmisano`s Letter to Partners
The following is a letter written by Sam Palmisano, chairman and CEO of IBM, to his business partners, affirming IBM’s commitment to working with solution providers and integrators on building a ‘Smarter Planet.’ Dear IBM Business Partner, I am pleased to send you the attached copy of the updated IBM Business Partner Charter. It represents…
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Asus, IBM-Lenovo Top Notebook Reliability Ranking
If you are looking for a reliable notebook PC, Asus and IBM/Lenovo may very well be your best choices, not Apple, Hewlett-Packard, Dell or Sony. That’s according to the most recent Computer Reliability Report from Rescuecom, based on 15,000 consumer service calls throughout the first quarter of 2009. The rise of Asus and IBM/Lenovo is…