Year: 2007

  • Small Solution Providers Buoyant About 2008

    Small Solution Providers Buoyant About 2008

    Lawrence Walsh

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    Solution providers are shrugging off the economic woes caused by the subprime mortgage crisis and rising energy costs, saying that they’re optimistic about the coming year and looking to expand their investments, according to the Computing Technology Industry Association. According to a survey of more than 700 resellers with fewer than 1,000 employees conducted by… Read more

  • Going in Circles Around a Global Channel

    Michael Vizard

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    Just about every business pundit and senior executive on the planet these days is talking about the importance of globalization. But while everybody sagely nods their head in agreement very few people actually understand that opening an office in another country does not mean that you have actually gone global. What it means is that… Read more

  • Managed Security Services for Real

    Pedro Pereira

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    Discerning myth from reality in the IT space often is confounding. That explains why, despite the publicity enjoyed by the managed services model in recent years, some skepticism remains about its promise. But it is waning. And some of that is in proportion to the rate at which reality is setting in about the model’s… Read more

  • Cisco Offers Broad-based Managed Services Program

    Jessica Davis

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    Cisco announced Oct. 31 that it will roll out a Cisco-branded managed service that partners can offer to customers. The service is designed to help the networking vendor’s partners capture more of the managed services market, which the company said is growing at twice the rate of traditional market offerings. The Cisco Powered Managed Services… Read more

  • Microsoft Looking to Partners for SOA, ‘Oslo’

    Microsoft Looking to Partners for SOA, ‘Oslo’

    Darryl K. Taft

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    REDMOND, Wash.—As part of its ongoing strategy to deliver more service-oriented architecture enabling technology and guidance to its customers, Microsoft and some of its partners have announced new SOA offerings. For its part, Microsoft released the first public CTP (Community Technology Preview) of its MSE (Microsoft Managed Services Engine) to its CodePlex community development site.… Read more

  • Cisco Teams with Indian Outsourcer

    Cisco Teams with Indian Outsourcer

    Paula Musich

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    Cisco Systems and Wipro on Oct. 31 will launch a strategic initiative to combine Cisco’s networking technology with Wipro’s IT outsourcing and managed services. Together the two companies will develop integrated services based on Cisco technology aimed initially at customers in Africa and the Middle East, although that will expand later to include Europe, according… Read more