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Cisco Pads Router, Switch Profitability with Rebates
After announcing stinging drops in hardware sales in January, Cisco Systems is relaunching rebate incentives designed to stimulate solution provider sales of routers, switches and core networking equipment. Under the plan originally unveiled in December 2008, solution providers that close sales on routers will receive a 5 percent rebate and sales on switches will receive…
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Break the WebEx Habit with RHUB’s TurboMeeting Conference Appliance
Web Conferencing has become one of those business tools that most cannot live without, and the market has grown in leaps and bounds as more SaaS providers have gotten involved. Big names like WebEx, GoToMeeting and Microsoft Office Live Meeting have come to dominate the market with subscription-based services. While SaaS subscriptions are a great…
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Websense Web Security Gateway Offers Security via SAAS
For many network administrators, security and insomnia go hand in hand. After all, threats are omnipresent and attacks can happen at any time, day or night. Add to that the rapid adoption of Web 2.0 technologies, and it becomes easy to see how those threats can evolve into something almost impossible to manage. The answer…
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How to Fix PC Performance Issues with Software Utilities
Squeezing more performance out of older PCs is becoming a necessary alternative to purchasing new computers as upgrade budgets shrink. While that may be bad news for those selling new PCs, it may be good news for those in the PC service industry. Pretty much any technician knows that a PC tune-up can net real…
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Recession Likely to Spur More Counterfeit Technology
As the economy continues its downward spiral, a crime of opportunity is becoming more prevalent in the IT marketplace through the sales of counterfeit IT products. “Piracy has always been around and the expectation is that it will increase,” said John Gunn, general manager at Aladdin North America, which develops software antipiracy solutions. Counterfeiting of…
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IBM’s x86 Server Exit Greatly Exaggerated, Observers Say
A widely leaked memo from IBM’s Series x executive has reaffirmed IBM’s commitment to the x86 server business, saying that any rumors about the company’s plans to leave that business are untrue. The memo comes at a tumultuous time for the computing hardware market. Many analysts have forecast sales declines in 2009 as IT organizations…
