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VARs, Analysts Welcome IBM SMB Shake-Up
Now that the dust has settled and the impact has been digested, both VARs and analysts have welcomed IBM’s move to realign its SMB business. Big Blue announced recently that it has split its former SMB business, now called General Business Group, into two; one part to focus on the true midmarket and the other…
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Exinda Makes WAN Optimization Make Sense
In the past the only way an enterprise could deal with a bandwidth drought was to buy more bandwidth, a practice that leads to most enterprises overbuying bandwidth and overprovisioning their data centers, just to meet peak needs. Today, those enterprises are faced once again with the need for additional bandwidth, partly driven by the…
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IBM Reveals `New` PartnerWorld Conference
A new conference has risen from the demise of IBM PartnerWorld, which Big Blue hopes will be more focused on the real business issues facing channel partners. PartnerWorld, which was the annual global partner conference for IBM that ran for seven years, is no more; instead the vendor has launched the IBM Partner Leadership Conference.…
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Microsoft Sees Hike in Profit
By Daisuke Wakabayashi SEATTLE (Reuters) – Microsoft signaled confidence to a rattled stock market by raising its full-year earnings outlook above Wall Street targets and reporting a 79 percent rise in quarterly profit on Thursday. Analysts took the results as a good sign for technology companies in the face of a slowing economy, and Microsoft…
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Silverback Partners Path Still Uncertain
Silverback managed services partners got the opportunity to ask candid questions about the future of their MSP platform during the first partner conference held since Dell acquired the company last summer. They learned that Silverback Version 8.0 would likely be hosted only by Dell. They learned that Dell plans to sell these services directly to…