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HP to Buy Storage Firm LeftHand for $360M
NEW YORK, Oct 1 (Reuters) – Hewlett-Packard Co (NASDAQ:HPQ) has agreed to buy LeftHand Networks Inc, a network storage provider, for $360 million in cash to extend its storage technology offerings for mid-sized companies. The acquisition, which is expected to close in HP’s fiscal first quarter of 2009, is subject to purchase price adjustments, HP…
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Sunbelt Software’s CWSandbox Lets VARs Test IT Security
Trust is the key element when it comes to selling security products and services. Solution providers have to trust that vendors have created a product that actually works and customers have to trust that solution providers are offering a product that actually protects. But, as they say, the proof is in the pudding. In other…
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Intuit Turns to Online Features to Keep QuickBooks on the Desktop
Accounting is the bedrock of any business and it takes good accounting to build a good business. For years, SMBs have turned to Intuit’s QuickBooks to keep finances under control. And, despite Intuit’s direct-sales history, solution providers are often the ones sourcing, installing and supporting QuickBooks in SMB environment. The accounting and finance application market…
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SolarWinds Redefines Network Configuration Management
Network and IT infrastructure is getting more complex by the day. System administrators are constantly battling the demons of change management and performance degradation. SolarWinds’ latest release, Orion NCM 5.0, gives solution providers a powerful tool that will help their customers achieve network management nirvana. Orion NCM promises to bring network device-configuration control to networks…
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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…
