Recent Articles
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Take Command of Your Own Destiny
Here’s a statistic that may not come as a surprise to you: More than one-half (52 percent) of solution providers regret joining a vendor’s partner program, according to the Channel Insider/Motorola Partner Recruitment Lifecycle Report. The chief contributing factor to this discontent: vendors failing to fulfill their promises to partners. Those promises, in large part,…
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Craigslist Pressured by States to Curb Erotic Ads
NEW YORK, May 5 (Reuters) – Lawyers for Craigslist met with several state lawyers on Tuesday to discuss blocking the social networking site’s "erotic services" ads, which have been linked to recent high-profile murders. The meeting, held in New York, included the attorneys general for Connecticut, Illinois and Missouri. State officials have called for changes…
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IBM Buys Exeros, Bolsters Business Analystics Optimization Practice
IBM has announced the acquisition of the assets of Exeros, a privately-held company based in Santa Clara, Calif., that provides leading data discovery software. Financial details were not disclosed. The acquisition is designed to strengthen IBM’s Information Agenda strategy to help companies turn data into a strategic asset, and provide new capabilities for IBM’s recently…
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IBM Targets Midmarket with Flurry of Smarter Planet Releases
IBM has announced several new offerings aimed at the mid-sized business market. The new offerings are many, but the message from IBM is fairly simple. The offerings are designed to help customers drive growth in the challenging economic environment and take advantage of the opportunities the Smarter Planet initiative offers. The overall strategic objective with…
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Vyatta Takes Virtualization Out of the Box
Virtualization has impacted nearly every aspect of corporations’ data centers, save one – the network. While server and storage virtualization have increased efficiencies and allowed for consolidation across the board, the networking piece of the puzzle has remained anchored firmly in the physical world. Virtualization vendor Vyatta is poised to change all that with an…
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Cisco Beefs Up Sales Incentives Ahead of Earnings
After watching its core networking gear sales plummet in the first quarter, Cisco Systems is launching a stimulus package of its own: bounties in the form of padded margins and rebates of up to 15 percent of sale prices to solution providers who proactively sell switches and routers. Cisco, which will announce its third-quarter earnings…