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Data Protection Drive
Not finished with updating your organization’s payroll for the day? No problem. Just save the documents to a USB thumb drive, drop the drive in your briefcase, stick it in one of your family PC’s USB slots and finish up in the comfort of your own home. But wait. Your kids were downloading some cool…
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The Drive for Data Protection
Not finished with updating your organization’s payroll for the day? No problem—just save the documents to a USB thumb drive, drop the drive in your briefcase, stick it in one of your family PC’s USB slots and finish up in the comfort of your own home. But wait. Your kids were downloading some cool IM…
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HP Pushes Power Conservation
New Energy Star conservation standards for computing equipment will go into effect July 20, but Hewlett-Packard isn’t waiting. The vendor introduced PCs in March that comply with the stricter standards and also has vowed to reduce its products’ power consumption by 20 percent come 2010. The company says it is packaging print cartridges more efficiently…
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Cisco to Lend Partners an HR Hand
LAS VEGAS—Cisco Systems is setting out to help channel partners with what they say is the No. 1 inhibitor to growth—talent recruitment, retention and training. That’s according to Keith Goodwin, Cisco’s channel chief, who said the San Jose, Calif.-based networking giant is in the early stages of building an initiative to help partners “plan for…
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What’s the Partner’s ROI?
IBM will launch a Partner Profitability Tool the week of March 26 designed to put a rough number and date on the ROI of partnering with Big Blue. While a rough, and uncertain, two-year estimate, it marks the first time a partner has been able to attach a number to the “‘Is it worth it?’…
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The Channel Is Flat, or Getting There, Says IBM
Manhattan Associates, an Atlanta-based supply chain ISV, has been building on IBM blocks for 15 years, but it is turning to Big Blue now for its sales, marketing, research, logistics and services reach to build a global channel it couldn’t otherwise build on its own. Manhattan Associates, which announced its global aspirations March 28, isn’t…
