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DEFINITION: A vendor (pronounced VEHN-duhr, from French vendre, meaning to sell) is any person or company that sells goods or services to somone else in the economic production chain. Parts manufacturers are vendors of parts to other manufacturers that assemble the parts into something sold to wholesalers or retailers. Retailers are vendors of products to consumers. (When you have a street fair, the people who
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Doing Business with Comstor
sponsored by Comstor
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Learn more about Comstor, a leader in Cisco product distribution and an established provider of networking and advanced technology solutions.
Posted: 01 Feb 2012 | Published: 01 Feb 2012
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Strengthen your Business with Comstor Academy Assessment
sponsored by Comstor
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Learn about an enablement program that can help partners track, manage, and achieve their multi-vendor certification, specialization, and competency requirements for Cisco, Microsoft, and VMware.
Posted: 01 Feb 2012 | Published: 01 Feb 2012
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How to Minimize Risk with a Software Vendor ‘Prenup’
sponsored by Iron Mountain
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Explore the results of a recent IDG survey gauging IT leaders’ perspectives on technology escrow agreements with software vendors, as well as the importance of including verification services within them.
Posted: 04 Jan 2012 | Published: 04 Jan 2012
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Gartner: The future of videoconferencing
sponsored by ComputerWeekly.com
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With a transition to new endpoints, capabilities and services, changes are on thehorizon for videoconferencing, and the emphasis is now shifting to improvingendpoint coverage and adding reach.
Posted: 21 Oct 2011 | Published: 21 Oct 2011
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If it's Just a Disk, Why the Reliability Gap Between Vendors?
sponsored by Nexsan
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If all storage array vendors buy disk drives from the same small set of disk manufacturers then why is there such a big reliability gap between storage vendors? This white paper seeks to gain insight into this question.
Posted: 23 Sep 2011 | Published: 23 Sep 2011
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A Revolutionary Approach to Cloud Building
sponsored by Dell, Inc. and Intel
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Many IT pros are considering the idea of moving to a public cloud environment. But organizations still do not like the idea of putting sensitive corporate data onto a shared, public infrastructure. Gain insight about Dell private cloud solutions that can help address the concerns surrounding a public cloud, including security.
Posted: 06 Jun 2011 | Published: 06 Jun 2011
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Case Study: Cut Cloud Infrastructure Storage Costs by 7 Figures
sponsored by Dell, Inc.
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Leveraging VMware View, iland offers a virtualized desktop offering called the iland Workforce Cloud. Learn how customers are able to compute at data center speeds and have access to their desktops from anywhere, anytime.
Posted: 25 May 2011 | Published: 25 May 2011
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Getting cloud computing right
sponsored by IBM
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Cloud computing can potentially be a disruptive change to the way an enterprise’s IT services are delivered. We propose that examining a candidate cloud solution provider’s reference architecture should be a standard element of a CIO’s cloud vendor evaluation strategy. Learn more now.
Posted: 03 May 2011 | Published: 03 May 2011
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Boosting ROI with Multi-Vendor Virtualization
sponsored by Dell, Inc. and Microsoft
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Virtualization is growing in popularity, but IT managers must decide between maintaining a highly uniform hypervisor environment or utilizing different vendors’ virtual server platforms for different applications. Turn to a mixed hypervisor environment to maximize virtualization benefits and prepare yourselt for a future move to the cloud.
Posted: 27 Apr 2011 | Published: 27 Apr 2011
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VENDORS DEFINITION (continued): … A vendor (pronounced VEHN-duhr, from French vendre, meaning to sell) is any person or company that sells goods or services to somone else in the economic production chain. Parts manufacturers are vendors of parts to other manufacturers that assemble the parts into something sold to wholesalers or retailers. Retailers are vendors of products to consumers. (When you have a street fair, the people who set up booths and tables are often referred to as vendors.) In information technology as well as in other industries, the term is commonly applied to suppliers of goods and services to other companies. A machine that takes your money and gives you a product is known as a vending machine. Vendors definition sponsored by WhatIs.com, powered by WhatIs.com an online computer dictionary
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