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Getting the Credit You Deserve: How Will the Credit Crisis Affect IT Spending?
If you’ve looked at your investment portfolio recently you may have concluded you are going to be in that IT job much longer than you’d been planning. But aside from the personal ramifications, are there also consequences for your business? Will the turmoil on Wall Street and in the banking industry affect credit available for…
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IT Decision Makers Evenly Split on McCain vs. Obama
IT spending decision makers are evenly split on the presidential candidate they favor and who they think would be better for the country and better for their businesses–28 percent favor Barack Obama and 28 percent favor John McCain. That’s according to the most recent CDW IT Monitor Index that measures sentiment among IT spending decision…
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Cisco, VMware Switch Up Virtual Server Networking
Having trouble networking and securing virtual machines? You won’t have to wait long before a new technology is available that solves that problem. VMware and Cisco Systems announced a jointly developed Cisco Nexus 1000V, a software switch designed to make easy work of networking, manage and secure virtual machines. The software switch, announced…
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Flash: Samsung Makes Play for SanDisk
A stalwart of the Silicon Valley storage market may soon be gone in a flash. SanDisk, the maker of flash memory cards for consumer and enterprise devises, is renewing talks with Samsung to be acquired for $5.85 billion. According to published reports, Samsung made the unsolicited offer in August. The initial overture was rejected by SanDisk…
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HP Software Reorganization Shuffles Executive Ranks
In the wake of news that it would lay off nearly 25,000 employees following the closed acquisition of EDS, Hewlett-Packard is now in the process of reorganizing and consolidating its software and consulting and integration unit. According to an internal memo obtained by Channel Insider, HP will announce next week a merger of HP Software…
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Solution Provider Turns to NASCAR to Rev UP Marketing
Donnie Downs, president of solution provider Plan B Technologies, didn’t think much of NASCAR racing. “I never thought I would be involved in NASCAR,” he recalls. “I considered it to be a redneck sport.” Things have changed. These days Plan B Technologies, a Bowie, Md., solution provider focused on networking, security and virtualization, is an…
