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Cutting-Edge Performance Drives Chip Makers
Chip makers are making clear that they intend to continue to explore advanced technologies such as virtualization and multicore processors to help solve thermal problems and push the performance envelope. At the Fall Processor Forum last week, Fujitsu Ltd. and Advanced Micro Devices Inc. shed some light on technology that will appear in their respective…
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Distributors: The Market Remains Stable
Earnings reported by distributors last week pointed to stability in the North American market, which has been dealing with higher energy costs as well as questions over the economic impact of Katrina. Arrow Electronics Inc. on Thursday said its North American Computer Products business generated year-over-year sales for the 10th consecutive quarter. Worldwide, the company’s…
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IBM Lends Its Sales Force to Partners
Tailing the success of a nine-month pilot program in the United States, IBM is expanding its Sales Connections program to its international partner program, providing partners serving the small and midsize business market worldwide with on-site sales support for IBM solutions. Through the program, IBM PartnerWorld members may coordinate sales strategy with IBM’s sales team…
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Hurricane Relief: Microsoft Gives Lends a Hand to Gulf Area Partners
Just as VARs in the Katrina-ravaged region started to wonder if Microsoft Corp. was ever going to help them, the company has come through with its version of a relief package. The vendor is giving VARs in the region a series of benefits, including margin relief and customer engagement funds, to assist them in resuming…
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Solution Provider to the Solution Providers
In 2001 Red Square Systems, a network MSP (Managed Services Provider), in Pittsburgh, found its business booming and the array of systems established to manage the business straining to keep up to the task. The company was using a collage of programs to record and produce their business processes – Microsoft Excel for forecasting, Microsoft…
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SMBs Don’t Trust VOIP Security, Poll Finds
Fewer than half of U.S. small and midsize businesses have enough confidence in the security of Voice-over-IP systems to invest in the technology, according to a recent survey. Despite recent research indicating two thirds of SMB companies believe VOIP systems might give them a business advantage over competitors, the new survey found only 48 percent…
