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Early Windows 8 bird may spell channel bonanza
The software giant hides Windows 8 under a cloud of unknowing
Channel Partners To Sell HP’s Cloud AppsTest
Testing laboratories cost a fortune to build and even more to run. With a cloud based testing service, software can be tested more often and more cheaply. Who knows, the quality of software in general might improve
Texas-Based Firehost Promises Unconstrained Clouds For The UK
Monthly contracts are so last year, says Texas based arrival to the UK scene
What Successful Businesses Do in Challenging Times
What do you do when the business environment feels like quicksand and all the tactics that used to be successful just don’t work anymore? Take some advice from an executive who turned a losing proposition into a multibillion business.
9 Ways to Look Good to Your Company
Times are tough and companies are slashing jobs left and right. Everyone should be thinking about how to look good to their employer, so here’s a few tips for improving your employment value.
How to Get IT Job Security and a 6-Figure Salary
Even as the recession grinds on and unemployment remains high, virtualization engineers are enjoying boom-time salaries and job opportunities. But gaining your VCP VMware certification doesn’t mean you’re a shoo-in for the job, solution providers say.
Ultralights, MacBook Air and Netbooks, Oh My
The choices for portable computing have never been greater. And the choice for which PC you buy and support, as always, comes down to price versus performance. Netbooks and MacBook Air look convenient, but do they have the power? Ultralights have features, but are they light enough? And what are we paying for? Here’s a look at today’s choices for mobile computing.
5 Ways to Max MDF and Sales Support
MDF and coop marketing money is getting hard to come by as vendors cut their support budgets. Here are a few tips for getting the most out of market development funds and vendors’ sales support programs.
How eBay Is Alienating Selling Allies
The mighty online auction house only needs to look in the mirror to figure out why sales are slipping, customers are leaving and listings are shrinking. Solution providers that once called eBay “friend” are rejecting its hostile policies. Here’s why.
Don’t Bother with Baby Notebooks
Walk by the netbook display at your local PC retailer and you’re likely to hear cooing and exclamations of how cute the little laptops are. But take one home and you may realise your new baby just can’t do the same things that a standard notebook can do.
The Fine Line of Managed Services
Vendors are finally getting the message that managed services is the wave of the future. Unfortunately, their entry into the managed services market could spell trouble with partners already there.
Broad Benefits of Vertical Focus
HEIT lists itself as a service company for the finance and banking community. CEO Dan Holt says a strong vertical focus enables growth. Is it time for you to get vertical?
Recession Is No Time to Retreat
Times are tough, so the safe bet is to retreat into a bunker and wait for the economic storm to pass, right? Wrong. Now is the time to invest and grow your business, just as these risk-taking solution providers are.
Show Us the Money
Even in a down year, there are strategies that can help boost the top line and strategies that don’t. The question is which one is your vendor using?
Windows Vista’s Prematurely Reported Death
While Vista bashing runs rampant, the truth about Microsoft’s beleaguered Windows operating system is buried behind the anti-hype.
Avocent Delivers New Kilowatt-Killing Technology
New Landesk tools helps to contain energy costs by bringing real time energy measurement to the desktop and the data centre while helping companies to reduce their carbon footprint.
Does Microsoft Have a Chance with Windows 7?
From a solution provider’s perspective, the beta of the much anticipated replacement for Window Vista is not a dramatic change, but it does make small improvements.
7 Tune-Up Tricks to Improve PC Performance
A grim economic outlook has forced many companies to delay new PC purchases. Can solution providers turn that negative into a positive by breathing new life into old PCs? These 7 tune-up tips will help.
Managed Services: Is It Too Late?
Solution providers that have failed to embrace the managed services model now face greater obstacles if they decide to offer managed services, as competition heats up.
Is Microsoft the Managed Services Market’s Biggest Enemy?
MSPs fear the software giant, but it may be the managed services platform vendors that have the most to lose.
Make Time for Business
Time is a fleeting and elusive resource. We all need time to contemplate and execute, but always find that there’s never enough. Controlling time requires a plan, and here are four steps to better time management.
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