The share-only deal will consolidate the market for storage software, with Veritas trying to marry its Unix expertise to Seagate's strength in software for Windows NT and Novell NetWare environments. Veritas Software is to buy Seagate Software, a...
Rhett Livengood, worldwide marketing manager for Intel, said the Intel Server Applications Enabling Program (SAEP) and Intel Solution Centers will provide the means for OEMs and web integrators to work directly with Intel to develop, test...
Other factors that have led to the increase include the level of software customisation needed for each user, and lack of training of both help desk staff and end users. A director at Front Range, a help desk company, told silicon.com that his...
It's about leveraging the expertise IBM has in selling expertise," said Bob Sutherland, an analyst with Technology Business Research. So far, IBM has the monopoly on selling this kind of expertise but Hewlett-Packard is likely to follow.
Under the Swiss deal, Big Blue will consolidate and manage personal technology for all 64,000 employees of Zurich Financial Services. IBM reported that payment from Zurich Financial will be made using a "pay per use" system for desktops, laptops...
IDC based its figures on broad outsourcing contracts for data centre management combined with desktop care, help-desk support, network operations, applications maintenance or disaster recovery services.