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<item><title>Gartner's Glimpse of 2010 IT Issues</title>
<pubDate>Wed, 21 Oct 2009 08:46:54 -0400</pubDate>
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<![CDATA[Gartner's IT Expo  amp; Symposium is being held this week in Orlando, Fla. During the opening keynote address, Gartner's leading analysts made some predictions and recommendations for IT. Gartner's findings may foretell what business issues and budget restraints VARs could be facing in 2010. Channel Insider takes a deeper look.<br/>   -  ...]]></description>
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<item><title>Five Hot Technology Gadgets Turning Heads in Hershey</title>
<pubDate>Fri, 09 Oct 2009 15:16:57 -0400</pubDate>
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<![CDATA[Sure, theres virtualization and storage and servers and switches. But how sexy are they?  Channel Insider recently visited D Hs MidAtlantic Show in Hershey, Pa. to check out the technology that was turning heads. Here are our picks from the most crowded booths, the most interesting emerging technology and/or the most unusual product that could boost your consumable sales.<br/>   -  ...]]></description>
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<item><title>CSC Gets Contract to Drive Nissan IT</title>
<pubDate>Mon, 28 Sep 2009 13:22:00 -0400</pubDate>
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<![CDATA[The North America division of the Japanese carmaker will turn to the IT outsourcing and services provider for help desk and mobility support. The deal is part of an ongoing effort to shed costs by outsourcing IT management and support.<br/>   -  Nissan North America, the subsidiary of the Japanese carmaker that manufacturers cars and trucks for the U.S., Canada and Mexico markets, has contracted with Computer Sciences Corp. for help desk, mobile computing and IT infrastructure support. 
The value and duration of the contract is unspecified...]]></description>
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<item><title>Channel Partners: Services Revenue Remains Healthy</title>
<pubDate>Fri, 18 Sep 2009 15:21:41 -0400</pubDate>
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<![CDATA[A new survey from IDC's Channel Panel found that services revenue has stayed strong, with the highest levels in Q2 going to those reseller channel partners who sold networking products.<br/>   -  Partner-delivered services seem to be recession-proof, according to a new
survey of reseller channel partners.

The survey of IDCs Channel Panel for the
second quarter found that the highest levels of service revenue, making up 47
percent of total partner revenue, came from those who sold netwo...]]></description>
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<item><title>Troubled Telephony Integrator Transcend Picked Up by Fastech</title>
<pubDate>Thu, 03 Sep 2009 13:10:14 -0400</pubDate>
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<![CDATA[Known for IP telephony, network and video solutions, Transcend had been rumored to be on the brink of insolvency, one of many specialized VARs struggling to survive within a battered IP telephony market.<br/>   -  In a sign that could mark a shift toward greater stability in the IP telephony and networking market within the channel, Minneapolis, Minn.-based Transcend Communications announced that it will be acquired by Philadelphia, Pa.-based Fastech Investment Group at the end of the month.
A VAR and system...]]></description>
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<item><title>AMD Ships Lower Power Server Chip</title>
<pubDate>Mon, 31 Aug 2009 08:13:28 -0400</pubDate>
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<![CDATA[The new chip is aimed at companies that use servers for tasks like cloud computing, and are looking to cut power and costs related to things like air conditioning.<br/>   -  (Reuters) - Advanced Micro Devices Inc ships a lower-power version of its Opteron server chip on Monday as it tries to expand its offerings for Web hosting companies.

The company declined to give its projections for revenues from the new chip.

AMD said the new chip is aimed at companies that u...]]></description>
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<item><title>SenSage Hires New Business Dev Exec from McAfee</title>
<pubDate>Fri, 28 Aug 2009 11:50:37 -0400</pubDate>
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<![CDATA[Joe Gottlieb took the newly created position after serving as vice president of corporate strategy and technology alliances for McAfee.<br/>   -  The event data warehousing gurus at San Francisco-based SenSage are hoping to up their channel play with the recruitment of a new vice president of marketing a business development plucked straight from McAfee.

Just a few weeks ago Joe Gottlieb took the newly created position at SenSage after ser...]]></description>
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<item><title>Star Wars: Big Time Vendor Rivalries</title>
<pubDate>Tue, 25 Aug 2009 13:07:05 -0400</pubDate>
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<![CDATA[Whether its the edginess caused by the recession, the increasing convergence of technologies and solutions or the rush to lead in new markets like cloud computing, competitive furor among many of the major IT vendors is at an all-time high. Former friends have turned foe and in some cases the tone has gotten personal. Read on for some of the more interesting vendor rivalries to watch today.<br/>   -  ...]]></description>
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<item><title>NetApp Unveils Data ONTAP 8, Enterprise Cloud Infrastructure</title>
<pubDate>Tue, 25 Aug 2009 08:41:17 -0400</pubDate>
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<![CDATA[The new platform combines Data ONTAP 7G, with its enterprise capabilities, and Data ONTAP GX, a clustered version with great scalability.<br/>   -  NetApp has unveiled Data ONTAP 8, the latest version of its platform now specifically designed for a model of IT delivered as a service (ITaaS) that will serve as the cloud infrastructure.

 quot;This is the next step in the evolution of a trend in virtualization, quot; said Patrick Rogers, VP Sol...]]></description>
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<item><title>9 Opportunities for Selling BI to the SMB</title>
<pubDate>Mon, 24 Aug 2009 13:46:30 -0400</pubDate>
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<![CDATA[The following steps are recommendations for small and medium organizations to improve their BI intelligence. Each provides channel partners a great opportunity to not only sell BI tools but to layer consulting and services on top.<br/>   -  The rich, actionable data provided by effective business
intelligence systems arent just for large enterprises. Small to medium
organizations can take advantage, too. Given the right process changes,
and some help from channel partners to implement them alongside
appropriate technology, SMBs can...]]></description>
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<item><title>SAP Updates Growing Partner Program</title>
<pubDate>Mon, 24 Aug 2009 10:00:05 -0400</pubDate>
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<![CDATA[The program is now being extended to SAP BusinessObjects solution resellers that are authorized to resell software from the SAP BusinessObjects portfolio.<br/>   -  SAP AG announced that it has successfully transitioned all software solution partners to the SAP PartnerEdge program, and is now leveraging the company's partner program framework to provide an array of innovative business services and tools to additional partner types that make up the SAP partner e...]]></description>
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<item><title>Cisco Unveils Smart Business Architecture</title>
<pubDate>Mon, 24 Aug 2009 09:55:56 -0400</pubDate>
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<![CDATA[The Smart Business Architecture was designed to make it easier for partners to sell the products and for customers to more easily absorb them while still getting the features and functionality they need.<br/>   -  Cisco Systems is introducing the Smart Business Architecture for Midsize Networks, a series of blueprints designed to simplify solutions for businesses with between 250 and 1,000 users.

The launch of the Smart Business Architecture began a year ago when Cisco examined its mid-size business produc...]]></description>
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<item><title>Google`s Incomplete Channel a Work in Progress</title>
<pubDate>Mon, 24 Aug 2009 07:16:38 -0400</pubDate>
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<![CDATA[Google admits that it needs resellers and industry partners to keep its high-flying revenues soaring. Channel programs launched around Google Apps and search technology promise new opportunities for solution providers, but some feel firsthand how Googles channel efforts remain largely incomplete.<br/>   -  Perhaps nowhere else than the education market does Google Apps enjoy a distinct advantage over Microsoft Exchange hosted or on-premises in that its free. But free doesnt always mean superior manageability, and many institutions have discovered provisioning and managing Google e-mail accounts is mor...]]></description>
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<item><title>Smartphone Users Get Bigger Display and Keyboard from Redfly</title>
<pubDate>Fri, 21 Aug 2009 15:54:52 -0400</pubDate>
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<![CDATA[Redfly Mobile Companion from Celio provides smartphone users with sore thumbs and squinting eyes just the relief they need -- a bigger keyboard and display that hooks up to their smartphones in a laptop form factor. Now the company is recruiting channel partners and distributors as it launches its first indirect go-to-market strategy.<br/>   -  Do you have carpal tunnel from typing on a smartphone with your
thumbs for hours? Going blind from squinting at Microsoft Excel
spreadsheets on that tiny smartphone screen? Relief is on the way.



Two-year-old Celio, which won a CES Innovations Award for emerging
technology in 2008, may just...]]></description>
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<item><title>IEEE Forms Security Collaboration Group</title>
<pubDate>Fri, 21 Aug 2009 15:02:27 -0400</pubDate>
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<![CDATA[Group will help standardize and stimulate collaboration between security researchers, whove traditionally struggled to effectively share information that could benefit the technology community.<br/>   -  The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Standards Association (IEEE-SA) is bringing together some of the biggest names in security to form a group that it hopes will better pool security knowledge and resources in order to fight the increasingly chaotic barrage of malware that enterpri...]]></description>
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