MicroScope articles from March 2009

MicroScope archives from March 2009

Tenders.
March 2, 2009... Sponsor's profile Kyocera Corporation was founded in 1959 to develop products based on ceramic technology, and nearly 50 years later the company's wide-ranging portfolio of products including solar panels, catalytic converters and...

Letters.(Letter to the editor)
March 2, 2009... Firms must limit the damage posed by laptop theft Stephen Midgely Senior director, Absolute Software Microsoft's claim that insider theft is set to rise due to an increase in disgruntled employees is no surprise. According to...

Features.
March 2, 2009... "Don't slam on the brakes," mobile bosses urge in Barcelona. By Joia Shillingford Optimism came out with the sun at this year's big mobile show in Barcelona. Mobile operators in particular were saying not only that they still expect some...

Features.
March 2, 2009... Over the last 18 months the topic of print management, or managed print services, has begun to feature more and more on the radar of vendors, customers and resellers. The credit crunch has only heightened interest in the subject. And if...

Comment.
March 2, 2009... In the increasingly febrile atmosphere surrounding the loss of data on CDs and memory sticks by government organisations, one question is not receiving the attention it deserves: why is removable media being used as a transport mechanism for...

Comment.
March 2, 2009... Before we sat down to hear from the senior UK executives at Hewlett-Packard there were clearly hopes that something positive would be said round the table. Of course there was never going to be a foolhardy punching of the air and a...

News.
March 2, 2009... Hewlett-Packard has walked away from several large deals that it believed would have been "suicidal" because of the pricing demands from customers. The current climate has encouraged customers to make more aggressive demands on pricing but...

News.
March 2, 2009... Nortel Networks is to lay off 3,200 staff worldwide over the next few months as part of a business and financial restructuring plan to pull it out of bankruptcy protection. The one-time networking colossus became the first major vendor...

News.
March 2, 2009... Dell is piloting an online deal registration tool for partners that it says will slash the time it takes to ring fence customer bids and make the system more transparent, something dealers have been calling for. Deal registration was a...

News.
March 2, 2009... Westcoast has welcomed back Andy Dow as business development director only 15 months after he left the distributor to head up Dell UK's channel revolution. In January, industry veteran Dow left Dell as part of a cost cutting drive across...

News.
March 2, 2009... John Chambers has scotched speculation that Cisco is interested in making large acquisitions this year. Speaking at a Goldman Sachs technology conference in the US, CEO Chambers knocked back suggestions that Cisco was interested in picking...

News.
March 2, 2009... Fewer glamorous launch events and reduced footfall will be par for the course at industry events this year, but while there was a distinct echo last week in the halls of Mobile World Congress (MWC) in Barcelona, there was bountiful evidence...

News.
March 9, 2009... Twelve months have passed since Alcatel-Lucent last gathered its channel partners and customers together for its annual business forum. Although the Parisian backdrop remains the same, under the surface a lot has changed. Last year a...

Features.(uninterruptible power supply )
March 9, 2009... In recent years the uninterruptible power supply (UPS) has come out of the shadows and bloomed as an essential component, for everyone from the semi-pro home user and small business, through the SME space and of course into the world of the...

Comment.(information security )
March 9, 2009... The focus of security is evolving from protecting assets and reducing risk to enabling business productivity and ensuring compliance. The traditional IT-led approach to security is being replaced by a business-led focus on information security....

Comment.
March 9, 2009... There is an interesting view of one scenario of the future produced by US analyst and MicroScope contributor Tim Bajarin on page 10. He has long proclaimed the arrival of portable information and talked about how the technology will give a...

News.(Brief article)
March 9, 2009... Euler Hermes has given DSGi another vote of no confidence after informing suppliers that their lines will be halved again on 10 March, leading to fears that the underwriter is heading toward a complete removal of credit insurance on the...

News.(Computacenter PLC forecast its service revenues)(Brief article)
March 9, 2009... Computacenter believes this could be the first year in its history that services contributions at group level overtake products margin, and the largest reseller in the land reckons its days of pure box shifting are behind it. In a trading...

News.
March 9, 2009... Distributors are refusing to supply Triangle Computer Services amid concerns over the company's future. Trade with the IBM VAR was put on hold this week following compliants from suppliers that the management team at the Southampton-based...

News.(Arnold Schwarzenegger will manage IT projects )(Tech Data's revenues)
March 9, 2009... Arnold Schwarzenegger has called for more government support for IT projects that could stimulate demand and warned firms to stop whining and try to beat competitors. In his keynote address at CeBIT, the governor of California added his voice...

News.(Network Appliance Inc.)(Market share report)
March 9, 2009... One of the growing features of the downturn is an increased determination by vendors to wrestle market share from their rivals. If the market is not growing, then the next step to keep the revenues coming in is to take share away from...