MicroScope articles from August 2008

MicroScope archives from August 2008

15 Columns.
August 11, 2008... One of the big debates these days here in Silicon Valley is whether products such as the Asus Eee PC, or netbooks in general, will actually take off and, if so, whether they will encroach on the low-end value laptop market where close to 50% of...

10 Features.
August 11, 2008... Getting Novell on the right track Jacqueline de Rojas, Novell's managing director for the UK and Ireland, talks to Simon Quicke about how she is transforming the vendor's reputation in the channel It is not often you sit down with a...

01 News.
August 11, 2008... Reducing risk not margins Not a week goes by without a press story concerning data security. One of the benefits of all this attention is that information security is now placed firmly on the business agenda. Resellers with the right...

10 Features.
August 11, 2008... The growing adoption of unified communications will lead to a shake-up in the third party distribution channel as voice, data and applications resellers are forced to converge in a similar fashion to the technology. But the market is...

15 Columns.(Column)
August 11, 2008... The rise of automated manufacturing processes, automated ticketing machines, self-service/mobile point of sale retail machines, and the widespread use of data capture equipment such as CCTV cameras has led to a data explosion among industrial...

01 News.
August 11, 2008... Microsoft has increased the complexity of its rebate programme for volume distributors by tripling the number of targets partners need to meet, but it is too early to say if the changes are positive, negative or neutral. Back-end rewards...

01 News.
August 11, 2008... PC vendors have used price cutting strategies to artificially sustain demand in the tough economic climate, but it will become increasingly difficult for companies to pursue that model, analyst Gartner has warned. UK data released by...

01 News.
August 11, 2008... Clarity Technology, owner of Equip, has made a legal claim for damages against Grahame Smee, the former managing director of its networking division, following allegations that he broke an anti-competition clause after leaving the business. ...

01 News.
August 11, 2008... Cisco had a solid fourth quarter and fiscal year 2008 thanks to an upturn in orders among US enterprises, but senior executives stopped short of stating the worst of the downturn is over. Revenues for the final fiscal quarter of 2008 ended 26...

01 News.
August 11, 2008... It did not take long after the merger for things to start going wrong for Alcatel-Lucent CEO Patricia Russo, who opted to leave the vendor last month after admitting she could no longer work with fellow board resignee chairman Serge Tchuruk....