July 7, 2009 2:11 AM
Posted by: Heather Clancy
CDW,
IT buyer market research,
IT spending,
IT spending research,
small businessesReseller CDW has released its latest CDW IT Monitor, tracking IT spending intentions across all major commercial segments as well as government accounts. The good news is that midsize businesses were growing more confident during the survey period in May. The bad news is that smaller companies grew...
December 31, 2008 10:36 AM
Posted by: badarrow
Barbara Darrow,
Dell,
Direct reseller channel conflict,
IT buyer market research,
IT channel products and technologies,
Servers and desktop hardware,
SMB,
Vendor partner business issuesDell Inc. launched a major reorg on December 31. The move "globalizes" operations around three major customer segments -- large enterprise, public sector,...
December 26, 2008 4:11 PM
Posted by: Heather Clancy
Authors,
Heather Clancy,
Information technology services,
IT buyer market researchEither every solution provider I know is brilliant or lying, or every IT decision maker is fudging their answers when they take IT spending polls. That's because even though all the data suggests that companies aren't buying tech or won't buy tech or are too scared to buy tech, at least some of the...
November 25, 2008 9:35 PM
Posted by: Heather Clancy
Authors,
Heather Clancy,
Information technology services,
IT buyer market researchJust wanted to officially add my name to the list of journalists and industry analysts seeking positive news, especially when it comes to economic growth. Tell me good things, I want to hear them! But I am obliged to update readers on two pieces of data that I came across in the past week that...
October 31, 2008 10:28 AM
Posted by: Heather Clancy
Authors,
Heather Clancy,
Information technology services,
IT buyer market researchThe big whack that consumer confidence took over the last couple of months (as measured by the Conference Board) continues to be echoed in the IT buyer community, according to the latest stats from the ongoing, bimonthly CDW IT Monitor. Now, though, the anemia is spreading out of the commercial...
October 22, 2008 2:08 PM
Posted by: Bcournoyer
Colin Steele,
IT buyer market research,
Microsoft,
News,
Server virtualization,
Tech Blogs,
VMwareVMware posted strong financial results yesterday, despite the weak economy and increased competition from Microsoft.
The virtualization market leader took in $472 million in its third quarter -- a 32% increase over last year and more than Wall Street expected. Ashlee Vance of The New York...
October 3, 2008 11:30 AM
Posted by: Heather Clancy
Authors,
Heather Clancy,
IBM,
Information technology services,
IT buyer market research,
Leading technology vendors,
SMBHistorically speaking, IBM understands better than almost any other high-tech company I’ve come across how corporate innovation can be facilitated by (or hampered by) technology investments. It certainly has plenty of research to illustrate this, including its most recent “Enterprise of the...
September 29, 2008 12:21 PM
Posted by: badarrow
Barbara Darrow,
Enterprise applications,
IT buyer market research,
IT channel products and technologies,
OracleSeveral times over the past few weeks, Oracle execs have stressed that the company is not unduly exposed to the various earthquakes afflicting financial institutions worldwide.
That's hard to...
September 24, 2008 9:06 AM
Posted by: Heather Clancy
Authors,
Heather Clancy,
IT buyer market research,
Reseller channel business development,
Vendor partner business issuesI don't usually get pulled into politics in my blogs, but I couldn't resist a recent survey released by CDW with some data pertaining to how the upcoming election may or may not affect IT spending. The research is part of the solution provider's bimonthly CDW IT Monitor.
The survey conducted in...
