Recent Articles
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Exinda Makes WAN Optimization Make Sense
In the past the only way an enterprise could deal with a bandwidth drought was to buy more bandwidth, a practice that leads to most enterprises overbuying bandwidth and overprovisioning their data centers, just to meet peak needs. Today, those enterprises are faced once again with the need for additional bandwidth, partly driven by the…
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IBM Reveals `New` PartnerWorld Conference
A new conference has risen from the demise of IBM PartnerWorld, which Big Blue hopes will be more focused on the real business issues facing channel partners. PartnerWorld, which was the annual global partner conference for IBM that ran for seven years, is no more; instead the vendor has launched the IBM Partner Leadership Conference.…
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Microsoft Sees Hike in Profit
By Daisuke Wakabayashi SEATTLE (Reuters) – Microsoft signaled confidence to a rattled stock market by raising its full-year earnings outlook above Wall Street targets and reporting a 79 percent rise in quarterly profit on Thursday. Analysts took the results as a good sign for technology companies in the face of a slowing economy, and Microsoft…
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Silverback Partners Path Still Uncertain
Silverback managed services partners got the opportunity to ask candid questions about the future of their MSP platform during the first partner conference held since Dell acquired the company last summer. They learned that Silverback Version 8.0 would likely be hosted only by Dell. They learned that Dell plans to sell these services directly to…
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HP to Acquire Custom Content Publishing Software Co
Hewlett-Packard announced Jan. 22 that it plans to acquire Exstream Software, which offers "variable data publishing,"—an enterprise system for compiling and delivering customized content and delivering it to an "audience of one." HP officials said in a statement that the technology will enable its customers to better communicate "relevant, personalized information to their customers through…