MicroScope articles from May 2009

MicroScope archives from May 2009

Features.
May 4, 2009... In the second part of the Avaya roundtable looking at the reseller opportunities for unified communications in the call centre we ask the selected panel to outline where they think the technology will have an impact. As the world of web...

News.
May 4, 2009... In a classic case of the security industry using fear, uncertainty and doubt to sell products there are some expectations that swine flu could drive sales of SSL VPNs. If the flu becomes the pandemic that some medical experts have warned...

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May 4, 2009... Ericsson's quarterly profit has slumped by 35% year-on-year as the vendor felt the impact of costs associated with 5,000 job cuts across the business. All told, the Swedish communications giant made net profit of SEK540m ([pounds...

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May 4, 2009... Microsoft's voracious anti-piracy campaign has netted 12 more traders caught selling illegal software, with the bulk of the incidents in the North-West of England and Berkshire. The resellers involved were all found to have been either...

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May 4, 2009... IBM is hammering on the doors of the datacentre after removing any doubt that it is gearing up for a renewed assault on the sector in the wake of Cisco rolling out its Unified Computing datacentre strategy. Further details are emerging of...

Features.
May 11, 2009... Because margins in the automatic identification (auto-ID) market have remained better than average and barriers to entry are relatively low, the sector could present channel partners, and particularly those operating in the mobile space, with a...

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May 11, 2009... There is currently a fashion for IT companies to have Damascene road-like conversions over their channel strategies these days - a certain PC builder based in Round Rock, Texas, springs to mind - as vendors suddenly realise that they should...

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May 11, 2009... The Dell franchise could be worth $1bn a year to Ingram Micro when more resellers are given the option of buying pre-configured SKUs from distributors. In a first quarter conference call with analysts last week, Ingram boss Greg Spierkel...

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May 11, 2009... Microsoft has signed a deal with OGC Buying Solutions that will allow the vendor to sell across the public sector and give the government the chance to trumpet [pounds sterling]75m worth of savings. The aim of OGC Buying Solutions was to...

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May 11, 2009... Credit insurer Euler Hermes has warned that the number of bankruptcies has yet to reach its nadir, with more expected this year. The warning was sounded as the company announced a 57% drop in its first quarter net profit to [euro]16.5m for...

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May 11, 2009... Distribution volumes are down by one fifth on last year, but the market will recover from the third quarter, according to Dick Borsboom, president of Avnet Technology Solutions. The US-based VAD took a gamble last November on predicting...

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May 11, 2009... Despite early signs of a recovery in the European distribution business, the impact of continued weakness in the US wholesale market and foreign currency translations prevented Bell Microproducts from toasting Q1 results. The storage and...

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May 25, 2009... Berkshire-based Maypace Systems Ltd is days away from closing the sale of the business to an unnamed suitor, according to its owners. The company's credit insurance has dropped from [pounds sterling]1.5m eight months ago to [pounds...

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May 25, 2009... Lenovo has followed up a third quarter loss with more red ink in the fourth under the dual impact of the recession and restructuring costs. The vendor reported a loss of $264m for its quarter ended 31 March. This comes on the back of a...

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May 25, 2009... Standfirst suggestion - Last week saw the Wireless '09 show at Olympia, and we caught up with some of this year's exhibitors to find out what's setting the agenda in the wireless networking sector. The halcyon days of global and industrial...