Recent Articles
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HP Brings Execs to Solution Providers, End Customers
In a market where customer service often means getting filtered through a phone tree and tech support means talking to a faceless scripted hourly worker, you may feel like you just don’t matter to your vendors anymore. Some companies, however, may recognize that in this kind of low-touch environment, face-to-face connections go a long way.…
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No Credit Crunch in the Channel
On the morning of Sept. 26, Americans woke to the news that Washington Mutual, the nation’s largest savings and loan, had failed under the weight of $31 billion in bad debt. It was the latest, as of this writing, of a string of disasters plaguing Wall Street and threatening the entire global financial system. The…
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Software Financing on the Rise
Companies finance durable goods. In technology and the channel, that often means heavy iron – large storage arrays, mainframes, clusters of servers and bulk-ordered notebooks. But you’d finance nondurable goods, such as software? Big software vendors, such as IBM and Microsoft, are expanding their financing programs to include software and associated services to help solution…
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Avocent Delivers New Kilowatt-Killing Technology
In today’s world of spiraling energy costs, CIOs are looking to squeeze every kilowatt out of the data center and minimize the power footprint of every desktop PC, creating an almost insurmountable challenge to solution providers and the systems administrators they support. While energy savings may start with common-sense policies, those policies are often difficult…
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Oracle, HP Team Up on Data Warehousing Hardware
Oracle is taking a hard stance against data warehouse competitors Teradata and Netezza by teaming up with Hewlett-Packard to market an integrated hardware database appliance. Unveiled at Oracle World this week, the HP Oracle Database Machine’s Exadata Storage Server supports up to 12 terabytes of raw storage data and leverages InfiniBand connectivity. Oracle CEO Charles…
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Toshiba Adds 128 GB of SSD Storage to the Portege Product Line
When a small PC demands a big price, something interesting must be going on. In Toshiba’s case, the small notebook is the Portege R500-S5007V, and the price is $3,000. At just 2.4 pounds, the R500 is one of the lightest machines to grace the market, especially when one considers that the Portege is a two-spindle…
