January 2009

• January 14, 2009 14 Jan'09

  Nortel goes into administration

  North America's largest communications manufacturer, Nortel Networks, has filed for protection under the Companies' Creditors Arrangement Act in its native Canada and Chapter 11 in the US. As predicted earlier today, this brings a century of ...  Continue Reading

• January 14, 2009 14 Jan'09

  Public Sector body backs Logicalis call for £1bn IT fund

  The call made late last week by Logicalis for the government to set up a £1bn fund to invest in public sector IT efficiency projects has been backed by the influential Society of Information Technology Management (Socitm).  Continue Reading

• January 14, 2009 14 Jan'09

  Google turns to channel to sell enterprise apps

  Google has taken the wraps off a channel programme designed to ramp-up the reach of its online Apps Premier business.  Continue Reading

• January 14, 2009 14 Jan'09

  Fujitsu Services UK chief executive resigns

  Long serving Fujitsu Services UK chief executive Dave Courtley has resigned from the firm and executive chairman Richard Christou has taken hold of the reins while a search for a successor takes place.  Continue Reading

• January 14, 2009 14 Jan'09

  Nortel on life support

  Nortel may shortly become the first vendor to fall victim to the credit crunch amid reports that it could file for bankruptcy protection later on Wednesday.  Continue Reading

• January 13, 2009 13 Jan'09

  Government on brink of £20bn SME loan scheme

  The government is expected to unveil plans to increase the loan fund available for SMEs from the current £2m to around £20bn to ease the flow of credit.  Continue Reading

• January 13, 2009 13 Jan'09

  Comment: Risk and reward in automation

  As enterprise application software is used more and more to automate complex business processes, organisations expose themselves to risks introduced by having mission-critical operations reliant upon IT and, more significantly, the people who ...  Continue Reading

• January 13, 2009 13 Jan'09

  Opportunities in new security agenda

  If there is a theme in the security world, apart from helping customers combat day-to-day threats, it is about making the transition towards a situation where protection is twinned with business processes designed to increase efficiency.  Continue Reading

• January 13, 2009 13 Jan'09

  Key notebook supplier slashes forecasts

  Notebook SKU builder Compal has slashed its annual shipment and spending forecast in the face of the shrinking market. The Taiwan-based firm is the world’s second largest contract notebook builder and supplies Acer, Hewlett-Packard and Lenovo.  Continue Reading

• January 13, 2009 13 Jan'09

  Comment: Making unified communications work

  Unified communications (UC) is a growing consideration for enterprises. One of the main drivers behind this growth is a desire for improved employee productivity through more effective collaboration.  Continue Reading

• January 13, 2009 13 Jan'09

  Security SME budgets set to bounce back

  SMEs are expected to continue spending on IT security this year after a dip last year as smaller companies move to protect themselves from web based attacks.  Continue Reading

• January 13, 2009 13 Jan'09

  Comment: Resellers can profit from helping buyers cut costs

  The winners in storage selling in 2009 will be suppliers that convince customers that storage products and services will help them cut costs. Through this year, the stronger customers will want to cut costs and look to prune expenses or deliver ...  Continue Reading

• January 13, 2009 13 Jan'09

  Comment: Profit from helping buyers cut costs

  The winners in storage selling in 2009 will be suppliers that convince customers that storage products and services will help them cut costs.  Continue Reading

• January 12, 2009 12 Jan'09

  Dell moves to minmise channel conflict

  In a long overdue move, Dell is merging its direct and indirect teams to cover four major customer segments and is understood to be preparing to unveil an internal commission structure designed to remove channel conflict.  Continue Reading

• January 12, 2009 12 Jan'09

  Didata laments lack of UC knowledge

  CIOs still see a lack of understanding when trying to convince their bosses that unified comms is a sound investment, according to new figures out from Dimension Data.  Continue Reading

• January 12, 2009 12 Jan'09

  Question mark hangs over IBM PartnerWorld

  IBM's worldwide partner conference earmarked for Toronto in May is unlikely to go ahead due to the uncertain economic climate Big Blue resellers have claimed.  Continue Reading

• January 12, 2009 12 Jan'09

  Will 2009 be the year of the netbook?

  During 2007 notebooks outperformed desktops for the first time in sales, and the future of the laptop looked bright. But 2008 brought a new trendsetter with the arrival of the netbook. As a result there are differing views over what trends are ...  Continue Reading

• January 12, 2009 12 Jan'09

  Audio-visual market remaining optimistic

  Whisper it, but the audio-visual market seems a safe place to be. Compared with other technology markets dependent on tightening corporate budgets, the AV market, with its traditional roots in education and the public sector, looks like a relatively...  Continue Reading

• January 12, 2009 12 Jan'09

  Growth opportunities in digital imaging

  In the current financial climate many resellers are looking for ways to move into new markets and generate revenues and customers outside their traditional base. Digital imaging has been one of the few consistent growth areas over the past few years...  Continue Reading

• January 12, 2009 12 Jan'09

  A host of new components

  It seems 2009 is going to be another big step up for the component market, with another version of Windows on its way, and the inevitable upgrades that follow, and the release of several core technologies presenting an opportunity for some major ...  Continue Reading