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Utah-based Saygus recently unveiled its flagship Android smartphone product – the VPhone - at CES Innovations in New York and took home the “Best of Innovations” blue ribbon in the wireless handsets category. Inside, Channel Insider takes you under the covers of one of Google’s new Android phones.
Data Center and Networking Take Center Stage at Interop New York 2009
More than 150 exhibitors are showcasing their IT solutions at Interop New York 2009, November 16-20 at the Javits Convention Center, including APC, AT T, CA, Cisco, Citrix, Enterasys, Force10 Networks, HP, IBM, LifeSize, Microsoft, Qwest, Riverbed, and Xirrus. Channel Insider takes a closer look at 20 of the announcements made at this week's conference and exhibition.
Cloud Fueling SMB Growth for VARs
The cloud is hot, for sure, but what’s the SMB opportunity? A new report from AMI Research shows that remote managed IT services for small to medium size businesses is set to grow rapidly in North America over the next five years. Inside, we take a deeper look at how the SMB MSP market is, and will be, affecting the channel.
Fujitsu Targets Growing 10GbE Switch Market
The 10Gb Ethernet switch market hasn't been growing as fast as predicted, but that could be about to change, and Fujitsu believes its new switch should prove attractive to both existing and new customers.
Brocade Reinforces Vendor-Neutral Strategy With Oracle
Brocade is announcing a set of solutions designed to enhance the performance of Oracle database and application suites. The two companies have collaborated on the definition and testing of vendor-agnostic, multiprotocol technology solution sets for data warehousing, business applications, and virtualization deployments.
Juniper Unveils Strategic Direction, Products at NYSE
The ambitious rollout, which spans Juniper Networks' silicon, routers and software products, also gave a big nod in the direction of partners, encouraging them to build atop the Juniper platform.
Avaya Revamps Channel Program
The networking company Avaya says its new channel partner program is a major overhaul that better reflects the Cisco rival's move to mostly indirect sales.
Cisco, IBM, HP and Dell Named as Possible Brocade Suitors
Brocade's (NASDAQ:BRCD) OEM sales strategy has created partnerships with the big names in the technology server space, including Dell, HP and IBM. But if any one of these vendors acquires Brocade, what will that do to the existing OEM relationships with the others?
Networking Vendor QLogic Expands Go-to-Market Strategy
QLogic has signed a distribution agreement with Ingram Micro, broadening that company's portfolio of offerings and QLogic's potential market. The companies estimate their reseller partners overlap by just 20 percent. The QLogic Ingram Micro agreement capitalizes on the momentum behind unified networking and data center solutions, the companies say.
Brocade Adds Services Certification to Boost VAR Profitability
Four months after unveiling its Alliance Partner Network program, Brocade is expanding the reseller channel partner program to enable partners to boost their profits by selling services. Networking vendor Brocade says the new components of the program will enable partners to become certified for professional services and for support services.
AMD Serves Up New Platform
The six-core AMD Opteron and AMD Chipset Platform will be initially available from Tyan and Supermicro. These are the first server solutions that take advantage of the 2006 acquisition of graphics vendor ATI.
Oracle Takes Aim at Sun Competitors
Dubbed the Exadata Database Machine Version 2, the new server package is a Sun server-and-storage combination loaded with lots of flash memory to run Oracle 11g Release 2 -- the first flash-enabled database, according to Oracle CEO Larry Ellison.
VARs Say Customers Opening Wallets for New Wireless Standard 802.11n
As the IEEE prepares to ratify the 802.11n wireless Wi-Fi standard in September, VARs believe enterprise customers may begin to open their wallets now that the specification has graduated from its draft status.
Networking Vendor D-Link Teases Channel Program Improvements
Three months after a reorganization at the top combined its Americas organization, D-Link executives are talking about the networking company's renewed focus on its reseller channel partners. Plans include a new partner portal, new incentives and marketing dollars, plus new recruitment efforts. D-Link has also hired a new field marketing team, led by a former ViewSonic channel executive.
Nokia Enters Netbook Market
The world's largest cellphone manufacturer announced it will start building laptops and enter the competitive and growing netbook market. The move will pit Nokia against market leaders HP, Asus, Acer and Dell.
LAN Sprawl can be Controlled by Context
Network complexity is growing, but a new approach to network management that incorporates context could help resolve many of the emerging issues faced by network managers.
Avaya Touts Nortel Enterprise Solutions Acquisition
Avaya says the $475 million acquisition agreement is a big step in strengthening its position in the business communications market and also in its ability to provide enterprise communications solutions to customers.
HP Answers the Call for New Telephony Solutions
Hewlett-Packard unveils a host of new solutions aimed to further convergence of telephony and data center infrastructure.
Virtualization Takes Hold in Government Agencies
Government customers are increasingly turning to virtualization solutions to slash costs, increase efficiency and tighten security, according to findings from CDW.
HP deal with Alcatel-Lucent Short on Details, Long on Potential
According to the Wall Street Journal, Alcatel will transfer 1,000 jobs to HP as part of the deal and this will result in cost savings of 750 million euros by year end.