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Vista SP1 Arrives, Thrives, Excites then Disappoints
At eWEEK’s Channel Labs, a non-descript FedEx envelope arrived today with an almost non-descript DVD that plainly claimed that it was Windows Vista SP1 (Beta). It was an interesting arrival, just to think that so much depended on that plain white DVD, so much for Microsoft and so much for a channel hungry to derive…
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Top Technologies CIOs Want from Solution Providers
Top Technologies CIOs Want from Solution Providers
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Lenovo Launches Linux Laptop and Leaves Lots of Questions
Probably the first thing anyone wants to know about Lenovo’s Linux portable system is, “Does it actually work”? The short answer is yes, everything important works. Lenovo sent us a ThinkPad T61 for evaluation, which by the way is an excellent system in its own right, and it came with Novell’s SUSE Enterprise Linux Desktop…
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Analyst: Microsoft Needs to Train More Partners
As Microsoft gears up for the Feb. 27 launch of Windows Server 2008, Visual Studio 2008 and SQL Server 2008—the biggest enterprise launch in the company’s history—it is aggressively readying its partners to handle the wave of demand it hopes will be generated for these new products. So important is partner readiness that Allison Watson, corporate…
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CIOs Put Disaster Recovery on Top of Needs List
Disaster recovery and business continuity topped the list of CIOs’ must-haves, while business application services and hosted/outsourced infrastructure rounded out the top of the list, compiled from Channel Insider research. Backup, disaster recovery and business continuity are the services CIOs most want from solution providers, up 4 percent over last year to 21 percent, the…
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Dell`s SAAS Strategy Takes Shape
Dell is looking to be able to offer customers and channel partners 18 to 20 kinds of infrastructure services that they can mix and match into customized services. That’s the strategy behind the company’s plans, announced Feb. 12, to acquire MessageOne, an e-mail archiving company, according to Raj Kushwaha, vice president of services at Dell.…