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Don’t Ignore Existing Customers
I have a deadline to meet today. Today is the final day that I can sign a new service agreement with my home heating oil service provider, and the price tag isn’t small. My annual heating oil bill came to about $2,700 last year. Expensive? Well, it ain’t cheap, even after I locked into…
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No Guarantee of Success for Microsoft’s Hyper-V Virtualization
With the release to manufacturing of Hyper-V, Microsoft is hoping that Windows Server 2008 users will see the product as the de facto virtualization product for the enterprise. What’s more, Microsoft is looking to use Hyper-V as a catalyst for the expanded adoption of Windows Server 2008. While those accomplishments may be lofty goals, one…
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Marketing on the Cheap: The Lowly Newsletter
Editor’s Note: This is Part One in a series. VARs need to spend more on marketing. It must be true. You can’t go to a trade show, pick up a technology magazine or look at a channel Web site without hearing about how you need to be pumping at least 10 percent of your budget…
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The Challenges of Being IT’s Middle Child
Being in the middle is no fun. Just ask a middle child or the passenger in the middle seat. Sure, plenty of people are out there looking for the middle ground, but just as many or more are stuck in the middle. For solution providers, being in the middle is a way of life, and…
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Rackable to Seed the Cloud
Rackable Systems is providing new ways for enterprises to build out the cloud. The company, which is known for its high-density server and storage products and has been one of the leading advocates for building mobile data center containers, launched five new systems June 23 aimed at businesses looking to build out their computing capacity…
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Symantec Bundles New Data Center Suite
Symantec has bundled a management software package that combines the Big Three requirements of data center management into one product: systems management, endpoint security and backup/recovery. Using in a single management console, Symantec said June 23 that it has packaged Altiris Client Management Suite 6, Symantec Endpoint Protection 11.0, and Backup Exec System Recovery 8 Desktop…
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