IT distribution giant Ingram Micro more than doubled net income for its second quarter year over year and reported higher than expected sales, but said revenue in the current quarter would likely be flat sequentially.
Dell teams up with Juniper Networks and SecureWorks, Inc., to offer midmarket businesses a range of security solutions, including intrusion prevention, anti-spam, anti-virus and Web filtering technologies.
Already more than halfway into 2010, it is clear that mergers and acquisitions activity among technology vendors has certainly picked up significantly. As market values have dropped, creating bargains for value shoppers, and smaller companies have experienced more difficulty obtaining financing, the market for technology mergers and acquisitions has accelerated. Technology vendors have put together several multi-billion dollar deals so far this year as the economy comes out of what many believe is the worst recession since the 1920s. Indeed, there have been more than a handful of deals worth hundreds of millions of dollars as the technology vendor marketplace has experienced consolidation through mergers and acquisitions in 2010. With companies such as Apple, Avnet, Symantec, and VMware among the acquiring companies, the action this year has been relentless among big technology companies and their targets. Channel Insider takes a look at 15 of the biggest acquisitions, all of them close to $100 million or more.
Cisco's new US and Canada Channel Chief Jim Sherriff acknowledges that channel partners today are working in a hypercompetitive market and one that poses the challenge of evolving from one business model to another. He spoke with Channel Insider about the current environment and what he wants to deliver to channel partners.
With news that HP has decided to trademark the name, PalmPad, speculation is heating up over when the company will be offering its WebOS tablet to customers. So far, HP hasn’t offered many details on what users can expect from its tablet. There hasn’t even been an indication of whether it will be targeted at consumers or enterprise customers, or both groups. More than likely, HP will offer the PalmPad to both enterprise customers and consumers, since the company performs quite well in both of those sectors. And recently, HP indicated that such a device would likely be offered through its channel partners. It’s the enterprise focus that could make or break HP’s WebOS tablet. With Cisco soon offering the Cius to compete in the corporate world, and Apple’s iPad still dominating in the consumer market, the time has come for HP to find at least one space where it has a chance of doing well. That single space is the enterprise. But in order to be successful, HP must have the right strategy in place. It can’t simply be the iPad. Instead, it needs to do several things to beat the Cisco Cius. Here are 10 of them
Lenovo's new lineup of ThinkServers are priced for value-conscious customers, with prices starting at under $900 and coming with many standard features including remote management capabilities, energy saving configurations and advanced data protection.
Jim Sherriff is returning from a two-year stint in China to take on the role of head of the Cisco channel in the United States and Canada. During his 30-year IT industry career, Sherriff spent 19 years at HP and two years as CEO of a Cisco partner.
Toshiba's family of SATA drives includes the MKxx61GSY, the MKxx61GSYB and the upcoming Self-Encrypting Drive, aimed at organizations wanting to secure data at rest for compliance with data privacy policies.
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