Year: 2005

  • Analyst Handicaps WiMAX Market, Picks Early Leaders

    Mark Hachman

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    Forward Concepts, known for their expertise in the DSP space, has entered the WiMAX forecasting market with a report predicting that the technology will be worth $2 billion in 2009. Since the technology is still in its nascent state, the firm predicts that WiMAX chip revenues will total just $5.4 million this year. Still, Forward… Read more

  • Corente Pushes Managed Services Platform to Channel

    Corente Pushes Managed Services Platform to Channel

    Pedro Pereira

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    As the popularity of managed services increases in the IT channel, a host of companies are rushing to develop innovative technology to facilitate delivery of the services. Among them is a young New York-based software developer that early in its existence caught the eye of IBM, of Armonk, N.Y., which has taken the company under… Read more

  • Microsoft’s Midsize Push Would Crown Solutions King

    Microsoft’s Midsize Push Would Crown Solutions King

    John Hazard

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    Microsoft Corp.’s advance into the midsize business market will bring a wealth of opportunity to VARs offering back-end service and solution tools, but licensing may be a dead end for others. That’s the word from Mika Yamamoto Kramer, an analyst at the Gartner Group following Microsoft’s midsize business developments. “Microsoft is taking money away from… Read more

  • VARs Watch Sun Program Carefully

    VARs Watch Sun Program Carefully

    John Hazard

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    Sun Microsystems’ channel partners said it was time for a makeover, and the company followed through. On Sept. 7 it began rolling out the first wave of a refurbished channel program, Partner Advantage, which Sun Microsystems Inc. executives say they expect will provide VARs and ISVs with a more customized relationship with the Santa Clara,… Read more

  • Channel Roundup: News from Ingram Micro, Intransa, LSI Logic, Emulex and Level 3

    Karen D. Schwartz

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    Ingram Micro plans to enhance partner program, Intransa adds European partners, LSI Logic partners with VeriSilicon, Emulex partners with ACAL Storage Networking, and Level 3 teams with 8×8 for VOIP solutions. Ingram Micro Plans Enhancements to Partner Program Ingram Micro Inc. of Santa Ana, Calif., has announced several new resources for its partners designed to… Read more

  • Banks Become Upgrade Hot Spot

    John Moore

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    Banks are emerging as an upgrade hot spot for systems integrators and outsourcing vendors. A survey commissioned by Accenture Inc. and SAP AG indicates that banks around the globe are planning to upgrade aging core banking systems. Three quarters of the bank executives polled cited lack of flexibility as the biggest problem affecting banking systems,… Read more