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  • Hosted Virtual Desktop Market to Top $65B by 2013

    The worldwide hosted virtual desktop (HVD) market will accelerate through 2013 to reach 49 million units, up from more than 500,000 units in 2009, according to Gartner Inc. Worldwide HVD revenue will grow from about $1.3 billion to $1.5 billion in 2009, which is less than 1 percent of the worldwide professional PC market, to…

  • Enterprises Not Scrambling for Microsoft Windows 7

    Think Microsoft’s launch of Windows 7, planned for later this year, will be enough to get your customers to start their long-overdue PC refreshes?  Think again. A new survey of more than 1,100 IT professionals shows that 83 percent of enterprise customers will be putting off adoption of Microsoft’s successor to its Vista operating system…

  • Saving Money, Not Environment, Drives Green IT

     Green technology initiatives are becoming more prevalent, driven much by the need to save costs, but according to a researcher at IDC, even once the economy starts to pick up again, old habits of wasted energy are likely behind us. A survey of IDC Green IT Forum registrants found that 68 per cent of respondents…

  • Perhaps You Should Raise Prices

    The economy is showing signs of relative stability. The stock market is no longer going through wild swings. Banks are beginning to lend (at least a little). And the government is no longer talking about economic doomsday scenarios. While that all sounds good, it doesn’t mean the recession is over. Analysts and economists say true…

  • Channel Insider, MSPAlliance Form Strategic Alliance

    Channel Insider and MSPAlliance, the leading association of managed service providers, announced a strategic alliance to develop and publish leading-edge, actionable resources for the betterment of the managed services community. The partnership between Channel Insider and MSPAlliance brings together two of the largest communities of managed services and solution provider organizations in North America. “Channel…

  • Intel Quarter a Bellwether for Tech Stocks

    Intel (NASDAQ:INTC) may just post better-than-expected revenues April 14 when the processor maker announces its earnings results for the first quarter. Whatever the results, they will be closely watched as a bellwether for other technology companies and for the state of technology spending and demand. That’s because Intel’s first-quarter earnings will be the first in…

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