Archive for the ‘Forecasting’ Category

HP Printers: update on back orders and future stock

Friday, January 22, 2010 14:01 No Comments

After 8 or 9 months, the HP IPG (Imaging and Printing Group) is about to have full stock on their LaserJet printers and multifunction units. It has been a very difficult 9 months (heck, one could have had a baby in the amount of time they were waiting on a P4015x) but from what I [...]

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HP and 3Com merge- projection and customer effect

Friday, November 13, 2009 19:31 1 Comment

 
 

 

So as almost everyone has heard by now, HP has purchased 3Com for $2.7B. While all of the final signatures are not in place, it looks like this is most definitely going to happen. Yesterday I received an email from Alex Dobson, the VP and GM of 3Com North America (full letter is below). The [...]

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IT Forecast-strategic technology in 2010

Thursday, October 29, 2009 19:42 1 Comment

In the first part of our breakdown of Gartner’s 2010 projections, we looked at total IT budget moves for next year and beyond.  Today I want to talk about Gartner’s Strategic Technologies in 2010.  They are pretty similar to their 2009 Technologies, but the changes are noteworthy.
The top 10 Strategic Technologies are:
     Cloud Computing
     Advanced [...]

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IT forecast- 2010 and beyond

Tuesday, October 20, 2009 16:43 1 Comment

 
Gartner has come out with 2 huge projections this week regarding both the short term and long term IT forecast as well as top initiatives for 2010.  While they are not pretty (looks like 2008 #’s wont’ be seen again until 2012), these #’s do help us to see that the next few years of [...]

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Tech budget cuts slowing (to a stop?)

Friday, September 18, 2009 12:38 No Comments

It appears that the IT budget slashing of the last 10-12 months seem to be coming to an end.  In two recent articles (CDW IT Monitor and Antone Gonsalves Blog at InformationWeek) there is some cause for optimism (or maybe lack of pessimism) for IT staffs and the good sales folks who support them. 
InformationWeek, who [...]

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