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Economic Realities Solution Providers Under Pressure
Economic Realities Solution Providers Under Pressure The financial services crisis and the deteriorating economy are having an impact on solution providers’ business. The result is less robust sales, revenues and profits in 2008 than most anticipated. Channel Insider surveyed 300 solution providers for this Channel Insider 2008 Midyear Outlook Report. Here’s what they had to…
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ONStor Cougar Sinks Its Teeth into the Midmarket
ONStor is looking to tap into midmarket demand for storage solutions that deliver cost-savings and performance efficiencies with its new Cougar series network-attached storage gateway appliances, specifically designed for the price-conscious SMB market. Hewlett-Packard’s StorageWorks Simple SAN, announced in April 2008, and Dell’s EqualLogic purchase suggested that vendors were eager to go after the SMB…
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Symantec Needs to Focus on Relentless Execution
Symantec has a problem, and it’s not the fact that channel chief Julie Parrish resigned to join NetApp a few days before the company’s channel event in Washington, D.C. Fortunately, the issues challenging Symantec are about the same that any major technology company experiences after going on a series of acquisition binges. Right now,…
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Head in the Clouds, Feet on the Ground
The IT industry lately has had its head in the clouds. Not a day goes by that the term “cloud computing” doesn’t cross my screen or come out of somebody’s lips. But is all this talk about cloud computing just a lot of condensed air? Or is it really a new wind blowing us into…
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Drupal IT Consultants Get Channel Program Option from Acquia
With more and more businesses looking to climb on the Web 2.0 bandwagon, there’s got to be a lot of opportunity for IT solution providers who can bring the benefits of a Web 2.0 implementation to end-user companies. Looking to capitalize on that trend, Acquia has created a distribution of open source Web 2.0 platform…
