Year: 2007

  • Ingram Micro to Offer Cisco MDS 9000 Series

    Sharon Linsenbach

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    Ingram Micro announced on Nov.12 it will offer Cisco’s MDS 9000 Series of storage area networking products, including both fabric switches and directors, allowing partners to bulk up their storage solution line cards. Cisco’s network-enabled storage products enable Ingram Micro channel partners to build storage solutions that include virtualized networks and remote backup, as well… Read more

  • Intel Poised to Enter New Era with Penryn

    Intel Poised to Enter New Era with Penryn

    Scott Ferguson

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    Intel is ready to enter the 45-nanometer era. As Intel CEO Paul Otellini detailed in his opening remarks at the 2007 Developer Forum, the company will bring its Penryn family of 45-nanometer processors to market Nov. 12. The official release will bring 16 new microprocessors to the company’s portfolio, including 12 quad-core models, three dual-core… Read more

  • Vendors Get Low Grades When It Comes to Managed Services

    Vendors Get Low Grades When It Comes to Managed Services

    Michael Vizard

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    When you consider the number of platitudes that channel executives tend to throw around about their support for the channel and the actual amount of vendor support there is for managed services today, you can’t help but wonder if most of the vendors really are that clueless or just can’t seem to get out of… Read more

  • How EqualLogic Deal Will Change the Dell-EMC Dynamic

    How EqualLogic Deal Will Change the Dell-EMC Dynamic

    Chris Preimesberger

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    Dell’s $1.4 billion purchase of iSCSI storage systems maker EqualLogic—the largest acquisition in company history and one of the largest in the data storage genre, period—shocked more than a few people. But perhaps the most important shockee, however, was EMC—one of Dell’s most strategic systems partners.   Certainly key people within EMC, the world’s largest… Read more

  • Do Your Customers Hate Vista? Rip and Replace with a Twist

    Do Your Customers Hate Vista? Rip and Replace with a Twist

    Frank Ohlhorst

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    So, you just delivered that new PC to your customer and gave them a quick tour of what’s new and then watched their eyes glaze over with confusion. After a few seconds, the questions start. Questions that should be easy to answer, but turn out not to be! Where is my start button? Where are… Read more

  • Alert Logic Pushes Log Management Into the Cloud

    Alert Logic Pushes Log Management Into the Cloud

    Brian Prince

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    Alert Logic is using a software as a service business model to bring log management to midsized enterprises. The company’s new log management offering, dubbed Alert Logic Log Manager, provides fully indexed searching of all archived log data via a web portal. The data is archived in two separate Alert Logic data centers to ensure… Read more