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Linksys Resellers Now Under Cisco Systems Program
As expected, Cisco Systems has digested the Linksys reseller partner program, making it part of Cisco Systems’ existing reseller partner program focused on small and midsize businesses. The move creates a single point of contact for all of Cisco’s second-tier partners, now numbering about 60,000. "Partners who wanted to focus on the whole portfolio had…
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Larry’s Lucky Seven Laws of Managed Services
Managed services are now commonplace in the channel. After years of experimentation and debate, we’ve achieved near universal acceptance for what constitutes a managed service. Yet, solution-providers-turned-managed-service providers continue to struggle with the transformation of service delivery and adjusting their businesses. I started writing these seven laws of managed services nearly two years ago after…
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CompTIA and OnForce Team to Raise Skill Levels of IT Service Professionals
The Computing Technology Industry Association (CompTIA), and OnForce, a marketplace for IT service professionals, announced today that they are working together to bring training and certification opportunities to more than 12,000 IT technicians. The pair will collaborate on a number of programs aimed at raising the certified technical skills of IT professionals and helping them…
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VMware Woos System Builders
Even as small and midsize business favorite Microsoft gets set to launch Hyper-V, its free virtualization offering, virtualization market leader VMware is preparing for the new competitor by creating a program to attract system builders. And the program’s ability to attract those board designers could have a big effect on who wins the next battle.…
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Dragon NaturallySpeaking Software 10: Review & Features
Although voice recognition and dictation software has been around for quite some time, it really has never taken off as one would expect. While the reasons may be hard to pinpoint, we can assume that it is not due to a lack of technological progress. Case in point, Nuance software has successfully released several versions…
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Avnet Reports Flat IT Sales
Broad line distributor Avnet reported that its Technology Solutions group sales reached $1.95 billion in the fourth quarter of 2008, up 9.9 percent year over year but flat on a pro forma basis that excludes currency conversions and acquisitions. Technology Solutions is the company’s IT distribution arm. Avnet said sales in Asia for Technology Solutions…
