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USA.NET, HP Partner to Deliver SaaS to Target SMBs
USA.NET will partner with Hewlett-Packard to deliver a more comprehensive set of hosted services and advanced collaboration tools that can generate new revenue streams for solution providers. The agreement, announced last week, will allow HP’s approximately 25,000 solution provider partners access to USA.NET’s hosted e-mail, messaging and collaboration solutions as a part of their software-as-a-service…
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Symantec’s New CEO Is Committed to Growing with the Channel
Competitors have crowed about stealing accounts and robbing market share away from Symantec. They say they’re slowly chipping away at Big Yellow’s dominance in the security industry because Symantec has become distracted by its adventures in storage and systems management. And many solution providers say they are switching away from Symantec because of poor products…
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Librato Leverages Old-School Concepts for New-World Data Centers
Librato’s newly announced channel partner program will leverage old-school workload management concepts with cutting-edge technology to better support solution providers who want to take enterprise customers beyond virtualization. John Wernke, vice president of marketing for Librato, says while workload management concepts have been around since the early days of computing, the tenets of resource optimization…
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Ultralights, MacBook Air and Netbooks, Oh My
If you want to create some controversy, just say something along the lines of “The MacBook Air sucks for business.” While that may be a blanket statement that unfairly casts the MacBook Air in a negative light, there’s some truth to the statement when one takes a look at competing products and how they are…
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Big Companies to Spend on IT Hardware
About four out of five midsize and large companies plan to buy IT hardware in the next six months—a statistic that is in stark contrast to recent analyst reports of hardware sales declines in 2009. The note of optimism comes out of the CDW IT Monitor, CDW’s bimonthly survey of 1,000 IT professionals about their spending plans…
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Vendors ‘Store Up’ for Selling Mobile Apps
When it comes to mobility, Apple’s presence—particularly through the iPhone—cannot be denied. While it may not have invented mobile applications, Apple made them mainstream. The iPhone revolutionized personalizing the mobile device, incorporating a population of wildly fanatical Apple fans to build downloadable applications that are useful, whimsical, valuable and, in more than a few cases,…