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10 Fast Facts About The Managed Services Market
10 Fast Facts About The Managed Services Market Analysts with Gartner believe that by 2010 about one-fifth of businesses will own no IT assets, instead turning to IT services. No Title Researchers with AMI Partners believe that over the next five years North American SMBs will increase their spending on remote managed services by 28…
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Technology Strategies to Help Enterprises Recover with the Economy
Are you and your enterprise customers ready to take advantage of the economic recovery? Do you have the right strategies in place? A recent report by experts at PricewaterhouseCoopers examined a number of strategies to help companies best position themselves for recuperation while the economy shifts upward in momentum. Several of these strategies have…
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Future-Proofing the Channel Business Model
The channel as we know it will not exist in as few as five years, says Peter Sandiford, CEO of LPI Level Platforms, a managed services platform vendor based in Ottawa, Canada. While technology will continue to increase in complexity, product margins will continue to erode and most professional services will be provided remotely from…
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Cisco Fires Back at HP, Talks Business Transformation
Even as HP was turning up the heat on Cisco Systems at its partner summit in Las Vegas, held April 26 to 28, Cisco was also acknowledging a new era of intense competition between the two companies during its own partner conference in San Francisco, held the same week. "We know you had a choice…
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HP Optimistic on Print Managed Services
Sales of workstation and desktop printers took a beating during the recession as business made do with the legacy equipment. But what didn’t happen was a decrease in printed pages, and that’s making Hewlett-Packard bullish on its printer and print managed services business. “There’s a large install base of products that could be refreshed because…
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Spiceworks Partners with Rackspace on Hosted E-Mail
Rackspace Hosting, a provider of hosting and cloud computing, has joined forces with Spiceworks to help small to medium-size businesses manage their Rackspace e-mail hosting services through the free Spiceworks social IT management application. The integrated systems help streamline the jobs of SMB IT professionals by allowing them to monitor and administrate Rackspace cloud e-mail…
