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Redstor highlights channel for driving growth
Cloud services specialist Redstor has revealed that 80% of its revenues are now being driven through the channel and revenues in hosted backup and storage are growing. The firm provided an update on its progress commenting that cloud income had incr... News | 08 Feb 2012
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PC vendors face uphill struggle in UK
Gartner research director Ranjit Atwal has warned that PC vendors face an "uphill struggle" to regain the interest of consumers in the UK, saying that the introduction of ultrabooks was "desperately needed" to give the market a sh... News | 07 Feb 2012
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Fujitsu ups rebates for top-performing server VARs
Fujitsu has launched a new dealer offer promising thatresellers flogging itsPrimergy server lineswill make up to 8% additional margins if they hit their sales targets during the first quarter of 2012. The firm claims this means VARs could potentially... News | 06 Feb 2012
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RM asleep at the wheel during education spending crisis
RM has admitted that it was caught napping during the slowdown and failed to fully appreciate the scale of thecrisis thanks to the mitigating effect of the cancelled Building Schools for the Future (BSF) programme. The education providerblamed an &qu... News | 06 Feb 2012
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Customers looking to use IT to drive innovation not cuts
Customers are going to continue to want to do more with less through the course of this year even though a significant number of those controlling the IT budget purse strings expect their funds to increase. Things have moved on from the pressure to ... News | 06 Feb 2012
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MicroScope's top stories, week ending 3 February 2012
Phoenix cutting 300 jobs as costs hamper business System integrator Phoenix IT Group put a figure to the number of jobs it expects to cut as part of an ongoing restructuring programme, saying thatover 300 back-office and delivery staff are heading fo... News | 03 Feb 2012
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Seagate shows signs HDD market is recovering from floods
The hard disk drive industry appears to be getting over the worst of the Thailand floods with Seagate following its rival Western Digital in reporting better than expected financial results. Both vendors were impacted heavily by the floods, which to... News | 01 Feb 2012
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MicroScope's review of the month: January 2012
The channel was quick to get back into the swing of things after the Christmas break.January saw a glut of industry news, withthe retail sector licking its wounds, as well asthe usual crop of departures, arrivals and tubthumping statementsas the chan... News | 01 Feb 2012
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Thai floods hurt Toshiba and influence sober outlook
Toshiba has become the latest vendor to reveal that the flooding of manufacturing plants in Thailand have impacted results after it reported third quarter numbers and gave a sober forecast of the next trading period. The floods hit the performance o... News | 31 Jan 2012
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iPad lifts Apple to PC client pinnacle, says Canalys
Apple has soared past HP to become worldwide client PC vendor leader for the final quarter of 2011, according to the latest sector figures from Canalys. After selling 15 million iPads and 5 million Mac desktops and notebooks, the Reading-based channe... News | 31 Jan 2012