Year: 2005

  • HDS Delivers High-End Storage, Management to Midsize Market

    HDS Delivers High-End Storage, Management to Midsize Market

    Alison Diana

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    In an effort to reduce the complexity and cost associated with managing and storing data, Hitachi Data Systems on Monday unveiled the midrange offspring of some of its enterprise-level products. HDS’ rack-mounted TagmaStore Network Storage Controller model NSC55, available now, incorporates the features of the Santa Clara, Calif.-based developer’s Universal Storage Platform, such as its… Read more

  • An Alternative to Cost Cutting

    An Alternative to Cost Cutting

    John Moore

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    Outsourcers can employ technology to gain a competitive advantage, rather than rely strictly on cost-cutting measures to do so. That’s the message of Irfhan Rajani, chief executive officer of Apparent Networks Inc. The software company’s flagship AppareNet product is designed to help organizations identify network bottlenecks that impede application performance. Apparent Networks last week inked… Read more

  • Ballmer: Microsoft Wants a Bigger Piece of the Software, Services Pie

    Ballmer: Microsoft Wants a Bigger Piece of the Software, Services Pie

    Channel Insider Staff

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    MINNEAPOLIS—Microsoft may love its partners. But that isn’t stopping the company from continuing to encroach on areas that have traditionally been its partners’ turf. At the final day of Microsoft’s worldwide partner conference here on Sunday, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer kicked off his morning keynote with repeated shouts of “I love you, partners!” But shortly… Read more

  • What’s Wrong with This Code? Java Swing and Threading

    Marcus Zarra

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    Ready to test your coding knowledge? In this article, I challenge you to examine two Java Swing examples, specifically using threads. Each are wrong, in a subtle but painful way. See if you can identify the problem before I show you the best way to correct the offending code. Let’s start with a thread blocking… Read more

  • Oracle Must Work Harder to Win Over Resellers

    Oracle Must Work Harder to Win Over Resellers

    John Pallatto

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    Oracle has been working hard to win over J.D. Edwards and PeopleSoft resellers, and it is serious about providing long-term support for the enterprise resource applications that it acquired at great expense in December. But it appears that it still has more evangelizing to do. Oracle President Charles Phillips gave J.D. Edwards resellers a pep… Read more

  • D&H to Carry Cisco SMB Product Line

    Pedro Pereira

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    Cisco Systems Inc. has added D&H Distributing Co. to its two-tier channel infrastructure in a move both companies say will spur incremental sales of the networking vendor’s products for small and midsize businesses. Cisco SMB products are available immediately from D&H, whose VAR and integrator base overwhelmingly comprises resellers that service and sell to small… Read more