Year: 2008

  • Apple Makes B2B Inroads Mostly Without Partners

    Charlene O’Hanlon

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    When it comes to cache in the consumer space, no company has more than Apple. But in the channel space? Not so much. But it’s not as though Apple’s products are inferior or not robust enough to handle the demands of the corporate environment. And the Macbook is user-friendly and easy enough to fix that… Read more

  • Solution Providers Give Thumbs Up to Check Point`s Nokia Buy

    Charlene O’Hanlon

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    The impending purchase of Nokia’s security appliance business to Check Point Software Technologies is an incredibly good move for both Check Point and the solution providers who sell security products from both companies, according to Check Point and Nokia channel partners. “There are a lot of customers who had benefited from both technologies together,” said… Read more

  • Tech Stocks Stabilize Distributors Post Gains

    Kathleen A. Martin

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    Signs of the recession ending are few and far between, but Wall Street appears to have reached a stable position as the major indexes had a week without wild fluctuations. For the week ending Dec. 19, the Dow Jones Industrial Average ended down 50 points, which is far better than the triple-point week-over-week loses of… Read more

  • Check Point Acquires Nokia Security Appliance Unit

    Lawrence Walsh

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     Check Point Software Technologies announced this morning that it will acquire Nokia’s security appliance unit for an undisclosed price. In September, Nokia made public plans to sell of its security appliance business to raise cash to buoy its troubled core telecommunications and handset business. The initial report pegged the buyer as an anonymous private equity… Read more

  • Server Wars: AMD`s Opteron VS. Intel`s Xeon

    Frank Ohlhorst

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    With the launch of “Shanghai”, AMD has revamped their Opteron product line to do battle with Intel’s Xeon in the multi-cpu server space. Does Intel have anything to worry about? Server CPUs tend to be unique beasts. Sure you can build a server with a desktop CPU, but once you move into the multi-processor space,… Read more

  • 2009 Channel Outlook: It Will Get Worse Before It Gets Better

    Pedro Pereira

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    Howard Cohen has been around long enough to know the signals. And the signals, he says, point to things getting worse before they get better. "We haven’t seen the bottom drop out yet," says Cohen, a 26-year veteran of the IT channel and a principal at solution provider Synergy Corporate Technologies. In business for more… Read more