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One lucrative provision in the new law for businesses is an increase in the "Section 179" first-year depreciation allowance for equipment and software. Under this tax break, you can immediately deduct 100 percent of the cost of most new and used business assets other than real estate. |
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Dell EqualLogic PS Series Storage Offers Application-Aware Snapshots for Microsoft Exchange |
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Press Release
Round Rock, Texas, April 28, 2008
In a move that further enhances the Dell EqualLogicTM PS5000 Series as the midrange SAN of choice for Microsoft® Exchange Server, Dell is announcing Auto-Snapshot Manager Smart Copy for Exchange as the latest in a series of “application-aware” snapshot, cloning and data replication capabilities. This application awareness can simplify how IT application specialists can work with PS Series SANs to help improve data protection, disaster recovery and testing-and-development procedures. |
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Reporting on Interop - Las Vegas |
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WDPI is in the news again. Check out page 49 of the latest PowerSource Online magazine for some tips on how going green can save some green
Powersource Online - Interop 2008 Issue |
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World Data Products is proud to announce that we are now a Dell Certified Partner. As such we’ve expanded our Dell product line to include all Equallogic storage products, at incredible discounts vs. list price. |
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Helping SMEs Maximize Their IT Investments |
WDPI Flourishes In The High-End IT Refurbishment Market
Processor.com
by Drew Robb
According to IT analyst firm Gartner Group, 130,000 computers a day are trashed in the United States alone. The firm also estimates that between 2006 and 2010, 925 million PCs and more than 46 million servers would be sold. As most of them will replace older equipment, that’s one large mountain of IT junk.
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World Data Products does it again! |
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For the fifth consecutive year, World Data Products, global leader in server, network and storage solutions, has been named to the VARBusiness 500, a recognized ranking of the largest solution providers in North America. |
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Refurbished IT Goes Mainstream |
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Are you considering the purchase of refurbished computer equipment? Then you're in good company. According to the results of a recent CIO.com survey, the purchase of refurbished equipment is becoming more accepted and respected in the industry. Some of the survey's interesting findings include: Who's buying refurbished equipment? |
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More and more industry experts are recognizing the benefits of buying refurbished hardware. The following are selected quotes: "There's a new way for CIOs to get good stuff cheap. The secondary market for information technology has ballooned from a marginal curiosity to a force to be reckoned with." - Abbie Lundberg, Editor In Chief, CIO.com >> More "The services developing to support the secondary market are making it easier and less frightening for buyers to participate. Soon CIOs won't be able to imagine not having used as an option." - Scott Berinato, CIO Magazine >> More "Now that [executive management] sees this channel, they expect me to be there." Samuel Brooks, MIS Director of Keystone Property Management >> More |
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The Benefits of Refurbished Equipment |
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"In two years, we've driven out a quarter of our operational costs... A large part of that savings has been leveraging the secondary market" - Bill Hauser, CIO of Tenneco Automotive >> More "I've already saved hundreds of thousands" says Malcom Fields, CIO at Hon Industries, a $1.8 billion office furniture manufacturer. He calls it his fiduciary responsibility. He says that recently his units have fallen in love with the secondary market because demonstrating return on investment is a cinch when capital costs can be reduced. >> More |
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