Recent Articles
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Dell Says Big Refresh of Enterprise Client Computers Coming
Dell (NASDAQ:DELL) executives believe that the client refreshes that have been delayed for a year or more as companies have cut IT budgets may finally be on the way in nine months to a year, offering the potential to rejuvenate PC sales. What’s coming then? Enterprise fleets of PCs will be 4 to 5 years…
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HP Intros New Storage, Virtualization Solutions for SMBs
As consolidation continues in the storage industry, solution providers are faced with a limited number of vendors from which to source products and deliver solutions. But after the dust settles from the latest round of acquisitions, the merging of like-minded vendors with complementary product lines can actually provide a number of benefits to solution providers…
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Apple’s iPhone, Mac Seeing Higher Sales to Business
Apple has never been known for its strong reseller channel partner program or its efforts to woo the channel with discounts and back-end rebates. But over the years as Apple’s Mac platform has made inroads into small businesses and workgroups within larger enterprises, the channel has come along for the ride, with or without Apple’s support.…
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Seagate Changes Distributor Relationships, Reduces Workforce
The poor economy has pushed Seagate Technology to "right size" its expense levels, which has resulted in a reduced workforce and changes to its distribution relationships. According to Forrest W. Monroy, a Seagate spokesperson, Seagate reduced its workforce by approximately 1,100 people across various job functions. "This included some individuals in sales and marketing, and…
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Storage Industry Consolidation a Boon for SMBs
Last week’s announcement that NetApp would acquire data deduplication and storage management vendor Data Domain sparked new questions about what continued consolidation among storage vendors would mean for the channel. As IT budgets tighten and businesses of all sizes struggle to do more with less, customers may be less willing to make new technology investments,…
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Sepaton Launches New Remote Replication Solution for Large Enterprises
Large enterprises generate an almost unfathomable amount of data. While this creates great opportunity for solution providers to offer backup and disaster recovery services for these clients, it also introduces a problem – backing up, replicating and securing these huge data stores. It is incredibly inefficient and costly. Traditional solutions back up all of a…