August 9, 2011
Don’t let sinking tech stocks get you down
The VAR Guy
The VAR Guy writes on why you shouldn’t panic.
“Despite some harsh economic realities, some IT trends remain undeniable. Just last week, Rackspace’s CEO said demand for the company’s cloud services were insatiable. Fast forward a few days and The VAR Guy suspects that Rackspace outlook remains the same — regardless of Wall Street’s steep decline.”
42 percent of PCs will be running Windows 7 by year-end
ZDNet
Mary Jo Foley reports on predictions from Gartner, Inc.
“Gartner is also predicting that 94 percent of new PCs will ship with Windows 7 installed this year, analysts said on August 9. Improvements in IT spending in 2010 and 2011 are accelerating deployment of Windows 7 in the U.S. and Asian Pacific enterprise markets, Gartner said.”
Dell’s first global conference: Where are the EMEA partners?
Channel Register
Paul Kunert looks at Dell’s upcoming conference.
“There will be no channel-specific content but dealers who attend the conference will get a special dinner to round it all off, presumably to keep them away from cosying up to IT user businesses directly, after all that is Dell’s job.”
