July 6, 2009
A practical guide to disaster recovery planning
The Register
Team Register provides a statistic from research firm, Gartner, regarding SMBs and disaster recovery.
“Forty per cent of all SMBs will go out of business if they can not get to their data in the first 24 hours after a crisis.”
NetSuite Plans SaaS Partner Summit
The VAR Guy
The VAR Guy relays two messages from Craig West, NetSuite’s channel chief.
“First, NetSuite’s SaaS partners are earning 30 to 50 percent recurring revenue margins. Second, NetSuite is planning a partner summit. Details about the partner summit are still emerging. But West expects NetSuite to alert partners about the conference sometime this summer.”
LG eyes number two phone maker spot for 2012, premium brand in the works
Engadget
Sean Cooper writes that LG’s mobile business unit is gunning for Samsung’s number two spot in the cell phone market.
“In an interview with Yonhap, LG’s president of its mobile business, Ahn Seung-kwon, stated that the company hoped to bump Samsung to the wayside by 2012 with the help of a serious new set and a premium brand. Apparently in Q4 of this year, LG will launch a new Black Label-branded device to compete directly with iPhone, which when coupled with dreams of more success from yet another Prada device (and if we’re super fortunate, some more Transformers-branded stuff) is part of the master scheme to start down the path.”