Top Ten Takeaways from HP APC
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LAS VEGAS--Hewlett-Packard's Americas Partner Conference was chock-full of threads this week. Here's what bubbled to the top. 1: The jury's still out on whether new HP CEO Leo...
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MSPAlliance dreams up service provider certification
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One of the toughest tasks for any technology solution provider is building trust with would-be customers. The job gets even tougher when you are asking a business to entrust certain pieces of their IT infrastructure to the so-called "cloud." Can the service provider REALLY guarantee service levels?...
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HP APC: Leo’s here, how’d he do?
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LAS VEGAS--Hewlett-Packard VARs have had their knickers in a twist since the unceremonious departure of HP CEO Mark Hurd in August and the subsequent hiring of Leo Apotheker as CEO a few months later. 0 Comments
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HP partner wish list
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LAS VEGAS--As the Hewlett-Packard Americas Partner Conference convenes here Monday, HP VARs and integrators have a lot of questions for the new management. Here, based on a totally unscientific survey, is what they want to hear from HP. 1: What's the HP cloud plan? Be...
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Oracle software biz soars but hardware remains a mystery
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Both Oracle co-presidents were upbeat on yesterday's third quarter earnings call--flaunting 37% revenue growth to $8.8 billion compared to the year-ago figures. Sales of new software licenses rose a healthy 29% to $2.2 billion compared to the comparable-quarter last year. ...
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OnForce founder launches new labor resources venture, Work Market
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Jeffrey Leventhal, founder of OnForce, the self-described marketplace for orchestrating computer repair services, has surfaced as the founder of what he is calling a "labor resource platform" called Work Market. The new...
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Oracle, HP spatting again
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Okay, someone's gonna have to separate these two. Oracle and Hewlett-Packard are at it again and this act is starting to wear thin. Continued »
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Solution provider proves that sometimes, it’s OK to be red-faced
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Yesterday, while I was poking around on Facebook researching potential stories ideas from my newsfeed, a rather random item popped up from managed service provide Evolve Technologies: Actually, it was a random photo that popped up on the Fairfax, Va.-based...
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Adrian Jones surfaces at Oracle
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It's not really announced yet but Adrian Jones, once the channel chief at Hewlett-Packard, is now at Oracle Corp. 0 Comments
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HP to host app store for enterprises
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Today's HP Summit has been heavy on buzzwords and light on details, but there is now some verification that Hewlett-Packard plans to build a "cloud-based" (what else?) store for enterprise applications. HP, which already launched Infrastructure-as-a-Service for enterprise customers will offer...
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