Year: 2009

  • 8 Weapons 3Com Brings to the HP Cisco Brawl

    8 Weapons 3Com Brings to the HP Cisco Brawl
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    8 Weapons 3Com Brings to the HP Cisco Brawl 3Com Open Network ProgramHP has made it clear that the biggest differentiator it has developed in its battle against the Cisco networking juggernaut is a product base built on an open architecture. 3Com complements this strategy with its 3Com Open Network Program, through which the company… Read more

  • Applications On the Go

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    Virtual desktops and applications are increasingly interesting to me.     Today I decided to move my company, Evolve, from Quickbooks 2007 to Quickbooks 2010. I’ve never been a huge Quickbooks fan, but QB 2010 has some dashboard features that actually make a big difference in the way I use the program, and put the information I… Read more

  • Rackspace Expands SAAS Offerings to Include Online Storage

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    As software as a service has risen to gain the attention of more business customers and solution providers, plenty of service providers have cropped up with offerings that solution providers could private-label to their customers. Hosting provider Rackspace has been no exception, rolling out a hosted e-mail service and then a hosted Microsoft Exchange service.… Read more

  • Bull’s Eye Awards: Time Is Running Out

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    Channel Insider has received dozens of nominations for the Bull’s Eye Awards, which will recognize excellence among vendors, solution providers, MSPs, distributors and channel services companies. Nominations are still open, but time is running out. Nominations must be received by Friday, Nov. 20, for consideration. The Bull’s Eye Awards will recognize individuals and companies in… Read more

  • Quantum Offers Differentiated Tape Solution

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    The storage market is changing with new demands and technologies, but at $3.5 billion (2008), tape is still a large segment and Quantum is releasing an entry-level tape automation library that is channel-friendly. HP owns the biggest slice of the tape drive market, with 55 percent of all factory-out tape drive shipments in 2008 (IDC),… Read more

  • Tufin Expands from Security into Network Management

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    Firewall management firm Tufin Technologies recently announced that it plans on expanding into the field of general network management through a clutch of 12 new plug-ins to expand its open extensible architecture. The Israel-based security company is pinning hopes for future success on this architecture, dubbed the Tufin Open Platform (TOP). Introduced last April, TOP… Read more