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Dell Sees IT Spending Slow Through Summer 2008
Dell is expecting IT spending to cool down this summer. While the Round Rock, Texas, PC vendor posted solid financial numbers May 29, it warned that the slowing U.S. economy will continue to force enterprises and small businesses to curb their IT spending throughout the 2008 summer. For the company’s 2009 fiscal first quarter, which…
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Harris Under Fire in Census Mobile Debacle
Don’t worry, Americans: You will be counted as part of the 2010 U.S. census—just not as efficiently as planned, thanks to the meltdown of a major mobile computing implementation that was supposed to bring the huge data-collection project into the wireless age. The goal was to make participating in the census as easy as signing…
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VARs Eye Boom in Hosted Microsoft Exchange Business
When Microsoft released its own hosted Microsoft Exchange and Microsoft Sharepoint offerings to sell directly to customers this past March, many observers expected a cold reception from the company’s longstanding channel partners. And some may indeed have felt a shiver when they heard that the world’s largest software company, and one that had always been…
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VARs Need to Adjust VOIP Focus
VOIP is hot. It’s hard to find anyone to argue that. Solution providers are doing a brisk business especially in the SMB space wooing clients over to IP telephony. The latest figures from the Dell’Oro Group show VOIP adoption jumping 30 percent year over year among SMBs. But the driving force behind many of those…
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NAC: Not So Fast
The network access control market has come a long way in a relatively short time—since 2000 or so—but it still has a long way to go before it hits mass adoption. Before the technology becomes a hot-selling commodity, two things need to happen: A single set of industry standards must emerge, and solutions must become…
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Double-Take Releases Virtual Recovery Assistant for VMware
Partnering with virtualization market leader VMware certainly has its advantages, including a huge shared reseller channel eager to take advantage of Double-Take Software’s new virtual recovery assistant. The VRA is a free enhancement to Double-Take’s self-branded server virtualization software for Windows that provides real-time backup and automated failover for Windows applications. The VRA builds…