Dell
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Is Dell Preparing to Take Over the IT Space?
Dell has been making a lot of interesting moves lately and all of its moves point to a big shift in focus for the former hardware company. The latest in a long list of moves is the acquisition of enterprise cloud management company, Enstratius. According to the Enstratius website, they provide a suite of [...]
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Michael Dell Sees Channel as Part of New Dell
Image ”Courtesy of Dell Inc.” The channel over the years has had a love hate relationship with Dell. The company has had its fair share of issues with channel partners in the past. Issues such as direct competition, channel conflict, and host of other not so channel friendly problems. Some of these practices have left partners [...]
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Dell’s Future is Unclear
Michael Dell may have never thought that proposing a buyback of his company and taking the company private could have ended in him ousted as CEO, but that may be just what happens if one of the competing bids for the company is accepted. Back in January we reported that Dell was considering a privatization, [...]
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Protecting Your Assets, Your Customers
Maybe you’ve never thought about it this way before, but your customers are your biggest asset in your business. If you’ve ever been approached by a competitor who wanted to buy your customers, you will understand exactly what I mean. Protecting these assets is just as important as protecting the physical assets within your business. There are many threats [...]
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Are BDR’s so 2010?
The BDR (Backup and Disaster Recovery) device has been a standard solution for many MSP’s for a number of years. As hardware based server installations have begun to decline for businesses that are seeing the value in cloud based solutions, and as Microsoft has shifted their strategies from hardware to the cloud, the question this [...]
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Microsoft Invests in Dell to go Private why would Microsoft do this?
The Dell board today voted to take the company private in a $24.4 Billion dollar takeover plan. The plan has shareholders in the company receiving $13.65 per share for their existing shares. The big surprise in the deal has been the over $2B investment from Microsoft. The investment has many worried about what it will [...]
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Cisco sends Consumers and SMB IT Solution Providers Packing with Linksys Sale
Cisco Systems has announced the sale of its Linksys brand to Belkin for an undisclosed sum bringing an end to affordable networking solutions for small business solution providers from the company. The move, which is an obvious attempt for Cisco to get back to its roots of enterprise level superiority, is no surprise to those [...]
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Intel Shutting Down Motherboard Business
Intel has announced plans to get out of the motherboard manufacturing business in the next three years. This surprise move which speaks to the continued fading sales of desktop PC’s, is sure to impact the few remaining IT companies that build and white label PC’s. Though this may have a small affect on the SMB [...]
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Could Microsoft’s Hardware Push drive them to Invest in Dell?
The news today was abuzz with information that Microsoft is talking with Dell to invest up to $3B of financing for a Dell private takeover. Dell needs an estimated $20B to take the company private and has been in discussions with finance groups to get the needed capital. The problem with this news is it [...]
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Is Dell in Real Trouble? Word on the Street is Dell may go Private
There aren’t too many hardware companies these days that aren’t in some trouble. A change in the industry and in consumers has companies like Dell, HP, and others looking for new ways to reach customers with little success thus far. Dell has been in a buying mode over the last year seeing it pick up [...]
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Microsoft Launches Windows 8 to a Slow Clap, Will it build into a Thunderous Applause?
Today Microsoft launched its Windows 8 operating system and surface tablet with a live broadcast event from New York. The windows 8 launch, which consisited of a ton of name dropping, nervous banter, and awkward claps from the audience showed just how desperate the software giant is for people to accept this new era in [...]
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Best Tech Gadgets for Back to School
As our kids across the nation are heading back to school, there are a number of kid-friendly gadgets that have made life easier and have made school an even more conducive learning environment. Many schools are embracing technology and putting technology items on school supply lists, or providing them as part of the curriculum. 1. [...]
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Still Giving Dell your Money? Are they using it to put you out of Business?
Dell has had a long-time direct strategy, but as of late Dell has been making it known of their Dr. Evil plans for the future. OK, maybe not so menacing as a plot to take over the world, or maybe it is a plot to take over the world; you be the judge. The company [...]
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“Thinking Out Cloud” What if Wal-Mart Acquired Best Buy?
As I was pondering, as I sometimes do; I started thinking about the state of the industry, recent acquisitions that have been made by Dell and Microsoft, and the current state of Best Buy. Best buy is struggling and it’s easy to see why. I look at myself as the typical consumer and the fact [...]
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Tiny Bits: 60 Second Catch-up for the Week of July 2-6
Dell Acquires Quest Software- Dell beats out Insight Venture Partners bid and acquires Quest Software see “Dell Won’t Take No for an Answer and Acquires Quest Software” Microsoft Announces end of life for Small Business Server and Home Server- To the dismay of IT solution Providers everywhere Microsoft will no longer be producing SBS, instead [...]
