April 30, 2010 1:04 AM
Posted by: Heather Clancy
CompTIA,
Heather Clancy,
IT buyer market research,
IT channel products and services,
Microsoft,
SMBTwo separate surveys offer insight into second half buying priorities among small and midsize businesses across the United States.
April 26, 2010 10:09 PM
Posted by: badarrow
Barbara Darrow,
HP,
HP APC,
IT channel products and technologiesHewlett Packard's big partner confab kicks off in earnest in an hour or so with a keynote by Stephen DiFranco, Lynn Pendergrass, Randy Seidl, Stephen DeWitt. But here are some takeaways from morning meetings.
1: Most HP execs so far have been coy about if and how the Oracle-Sun data center...
April 25, 2010 7:14 PM
Posted by: badarrow
Barbara Darrow,
IBM,
IT channel products and technologies,
Warpstock,
Workplace ShellIf you think no one cares about IBM OS/2, the mostly defunct operating system, publish a story on it and wait for the email.
OS/2, for all its faults and foibles, still generates a ton of...
April 22, 2010 1:44 PM
Posted by: badarrow
Azure,
Barbara Darrow,
Business Intelligence,
Database,
IT channel products and services,
Microsoft,
SQL Azure,
SQL Server 2008 R2,
Ted KummertMicrosoft is chipping away at SQL Azure, trying to bring it to full parity with on-premises with the company's on-premises SQL Server 2008 R2.
"We have the principal of...
April 15, 2010 5:54 PM
Posted by: Heather Clancy
CompTIA,
Heather Clancy,
IT channel products and services,
LinuxIn the category of "you've coming a long way baby," CompTIA and the Linux Professional Institute (LPI) are getting together to create a
April 5, 2010 4:05 PM
Posted by: badarrow
Barbara Darrow,
IT channel products and services,
Symantec,
Symantec layoffsWord out of Mountain View is that Symantec is cutting jobs -- quite a few jobs -- at the start of its new fiscal year.
Some groups -- midmarket sales for example -- will see a 20% reduction, sources say. Stay tuned for more details.
This follows apparent cuts last month in the company's
April 5, 2010 2:17 PM
Posted by: badarrow
AIG,
Amazon,
Barbara Darrow,
Ford,
Goldman Sachs,
Google,
Harris Interactive,
Intel,
IT channel products and services,
Microsoft
Tech heavyweights Amazon, Intel, Google, and Microsoft were among six companies that got "excellent" reputation quotients or "RQ" scores, according to the newly released
April 2, 2010 10:22 PM
Posted by: Heather Clancy
CompTIA,
Heather Clancy,
IT channel products and servicesCompTIA has taken a cue from charities and non-profits and from the managed services industry by coming up with a subscription-based pricing model for VARs, so that they can pay by the month instead coughing up the $250 annual fee all at...
