Recent Articles
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Business Opportunities and Threats in the Technology Cloud
Cloud computing threatens to disrupt many of the business models around the IT industry as traditional desktops and client computing are transformed into something different. But don’t expect big enterprises to make the move right away. That’s because it’s harder for big companies with their investments in legacy IT to make a quick switch to…
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Selling IT To Tomorrow’s Startup
What’s the startup of the future going to look like in the post-recession economy? Some VARs think that more companies will be looking to what amounts to an infrastructure-as-a-service model. Rather than pay for all the equipment as a capital expense, burning their scarce startup money, companies may instead choose to outsource all of that,…
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Intermedia Offers 100% Data Protection Guarantee on Exchange 2010
The market’s leading Exchange hosting provider, New York-based Intermedia, announced this week that it will roll out the first ever new hosting service for Microsoft Exchange 2010 with an attractive new twist: a 100 percent data protection guarantee for customer information stored within Exchange. The guarantee is the first of its kind and could mark…
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Polycom, BT Video Conferencing, UC Managed Service Won’t Cut Partners Out
Polycom has signed a three-year agreement with BT Group that the companies say will accelerate the growth of unified conferencing systems—including video conferencing—within enterprises around the world by offering unified communications as a managed services offering. The announcement comes on the heels of a video conferencing mergers and acquisition market that’s been red hot lately.…
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Top SaaS Growth Markets
Top SaaS Growth Markets Momentum continues to build behind software as a service. Gartner is forecasting worldwide software SaaS revenue to hit $7.5 billion in 2009, a 17.7 percent increase from 2008 revenue of $6.4 billion. And it’s not stopping there. Expectations for sales total $14 billion by 2013. Channel Insider breaks out the most…
