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Services Offset Decline in Product Sales
As toplines continue to drop, channel partners should be turning to service contracts to make up for some of that lost revenue, said the head of MaintenanceNet. When it comes to service and maintenance contracts, it’s money being left on the table. While that’s bad enough in good economic times, in a poor economy, changing…
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Search Comes to Managed Services
The two biggest issues with managed services for most solution providers is the cost of creating the service and then dealing with the process by which the multitude of devices in the customer environments actually become managed. While there has been no shortage of managed services platforms to use as a service, the issue that…
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Will a Stronger Economy Hurt Netbook Sales?
While netbooks are being positioned as secondary portable computers, the economic conditions are helping to drive the market, as well. End-users are looking for portable, low-cost computers because of the reduced disposable income, but while the economy is certainly a driving force behind the growth of the market, it’s not the only factor. "I think…
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HP Snags EMC Executive for Server, Storage Business
HP has brought on David Donatelli, former president of EMC‘s storage division, to serve in the role of executive vice president of enterprise servers, storage and networking. According to analysts, this appointment is a sign that HP has plans to give its servers, storage and networking business a jumpstart. Donatelli began in his new role…
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Small Business IT Distribution Specialist Reports Sales Growth
Strength in netbooks, notebooks and overall mobility solutions has driven D&H Distributing to a 6 percent growth in sales during the calendar first quarter of 2009—a time when other IT distributors have reported double-digit declines in sales. D&H announced the results the week of May 4. But it’s important to note that D&H is not…