Year: 2007

  • Exchange 2007 SP1 Could Finally Spark Upgrades

    Exchange 2007 SP1 Could Finally Spark Upgrades

    Sharon Linsenbach

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    Hosted Application provider GroupSpark is making Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 Service Pack 1 available to its partners today, hoping to capitalize on the ‘low-hanging fruit’ of customers who waited for the Service Pack’s release to upgrade. Ravi Agarwal, CEO of Burlington, Mass.-based GroupSpark and a Microsoft Gold partner, said his company’s channel partners were demanding… Read more

  • CDW: IT Decision Makers Concerned About Economy

    Jessica Davis

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    Uncertainty in the U.S. economy is giving some IT decision makers pause when they ponder their plans for 2008. That’s according to a new bi-monthly survey by CDW. The direct market reseller created the survey, CDW IT Monitor, to measure the sentiments of the IT marketplace in the United States. CDW released the inaugural survey’s… Read more

  • Five Desktop Linux Highlights of 2007

    Five Desktop Linux Highlights of 2007

    Steven Vaughan-Nichols

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    Sometimes putting together a best-of-the-year list is like pulling teeth. There simply isn’t enough big news to fill the list out. That was not a problem for desktop Linux in 2007. This year was one of the most eventful years in desktop Linux’s short history. While Mac OS X remains the most successful of all… Read more

  • MSP Partners Opens Advisory Board to Competitors

    Jessica Davis

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    Vendor-created organization MSP Partners has formed a new advisory board and announced its inaugural members are Autotask, ContractPC, Kaseya and Xerox. Cisco, Ingram Micro, Intel, Level Platforms and Microsoft founded the organization in March 2007 with a mission of providing a comprehensive source of MSP (managed services provider) education. Now, with the addition of an… Read more

  • IBM Buys Database Software Firm

    Channel Insider Staff

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    HELSINKI (Reuters)—International Business Machines Corp said on Friday it has agreed to buy in-memory database software provider Solid Information Technology from private owners for an undisclosed sum. Solid’s largest owners were private equity firms Apax Partners APAX.UL and CapMan. Solid is expected to have 2007 sales of around $14.4 million, Vesa Wallden, a member of… Read more

  • Sun Finally Appoints European Chief

    Sun Finally Appoints European Chief

    Sara Driscoll

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    After five months of the position being vacant, Sun Microsystems has finally filled the role of senior vice president of Europe Middle East and Africa. Sun, which has had a tumultuous time of late in Europe, after losing its head of U.K. channel and its U.K. country manager within weeks of each other back in… Read more