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Top 10 Threats to Your Managed Services Business
Top 10 Threats to Your Managed Services Business In our latest Channel Insider research, we wanted to find out what keeps solution providers up at night. Specifically, we asked which companies have offerings or positions that pose the greatest threat to your managed services business over the next 24 months? The following is a list…
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DocuSign Melds Process, Paper, Technology into Management Solution
There is something about paper contracts. Is it the tangibility, the legality, the simplicity or something else? While many corporate entities are, for lack of a better term, addicted to paper and its legacy requirements, there is still one simple truth—managing and routing paper documents can be an expensive process. What’s more, paper often becomes…
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Crime Doesn’t Pay for N.Y. VAR Caught Selling Fake Cisco Gear
An Ossining, N.Y., reseller who for four years sold cheap Chinese wireless networking gear disguised as high-end equipment from Cisco Systems is headed for a two-and-a-half year stretch in federal prison. U.S. District Court Judge Stephen C. Robinson on July 31 handed down the sentence for Charles Lacy-Thompson, 52, of Briarcliff Manor, N.Y., owner of Coletronic Computer. Prosecutors…
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Iventosch Out as NetApp Channel Chief
Leonard Iventosch, the popular head of storage vendor NetApp’s global channel sales operation, left his post suddenly on Tuesday, company officials have confirmed. No reason for the resignation was given. In a statement, a NetApp spokesman said that, effective immediately, Iventosch’s boss, Pat Linehan, senior vice president of worldwide sales and Eric Mann, senior vice…
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LG Display to Cut Output by 10 Percent
LG Display Co Ltd, the world’s No. 2 maker of liquid crystal display (LCD) screens, said on Sunday it would cut its panel output by around 10 percent until August because of weakening global demand. South Korea-based LG Display joins Taiwan rivals AU Optronics Corp and Chi Mei Optoelectronics Corp in the move to reduce…
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IBM Blades Destined for Rackable Modular Data Center
IBM and Rackable Systems have inked a new agreement that will allow Rackable to pack IBM’s BladeCenter systems in its modular data center for the first time. The agreement, which the two companies are expected to announce July 28, will allow Rackable to offer IBM’s BladeCenter T and HT blade chassis within its own ICE…
