Recent Articles
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SIMTone Puts the Silver Lining on Cloud Computing
Cloud computing is gaining greater appeal in these difficult economic times. Many startups and small businesses are looking for ways to contain their IT costs and budget appropriately. SIMtone is aiming to help solution providers meet those budgetary needs by offering a platform that can be used to create cloud-based environments at a fixed, subscription-based…
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BMC Chief: Time to Redesign, Automate IT
Financial markets continue to slide, forcing enterprises and small businesses alike to cut spending and lay off even mission-critical employees. Although unfortunate, this is looking like a good trend for vendors and resellers specializing in business service management and automation tools. BMC Software, a leader in BSM software and methodologies, reported Oct. 30 that its…
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Iomega StorCenter ix2 Offers Ample Storage for Negligible Price
If Eddie Money penned a song about the Iomega StorCenter ix2, it would probably be titled, "I’ve Got Two Tickets to Terabytes." That’s because the latest network-attached storage unit from Iomega can be configured one of two ways, as a 2TB "just a bunch of disks" storage device or 1TB device that uses drive mirroring…
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Wi-Fi Opportunities a Bright Spot for Solution Providers
With the U.S. economy tightening and Wall Street numbers sliding further every week, a few bright spots remain for IT solution providers. One of those is the wireless market, according to research from Chetan Sharma Consulting. The U.S. wireless market grew 40 percent in the second quarter 2008 compared with the same quarter in 2007,…
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Remember This Name: Tata
If you don’t know anything about Tata Communications or Tata Consultancy Services, that is about to change. If you’re in managed services, unified communications, network integration or content delivery, you may cross paths with either or both in the near future. And when you do, it will be either as a competitor or a partner.…
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Avaya Shakes Up North American Channel Role Again
Nine months after Avaya appointed a new North American channel chief, Donny Ward, Avaya has announced that he will be replaced by Carol Neslund, former channel chief of Seagate’s Americas channel. The change comes a little more than 90 days since Jeremy Butt was named Avaya’s first global channel chief. Previously geographic channel chiefs reported…
