Year: 2009

  • Europe May Save Oracle from Sun Deal

    Channel Insider Staff

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    Oracle says it will “vigorously oppose” a European Commission ruling that its $7 billion acquisition of Sun Microsystems would dampen competition and technology development by putting the MySQL database in the hands of its primary rival. The strong language aside, some solution providers and vendors around Silicon Valley are speculating that this is precisely the… Read more

  • Top SaaS Growth Markets

    Top SaaS Growth Markets

    Carolyn April

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    Top SaaS Growth Markets Momentum continues to build behind software as a service. Gartner is forecasting worldwide software SaaS revenue to hit $7.5 billion in 2009, a 17.7 percent increase from 2008 revenue of $6.4 billion. And it’s not stopping there. Expectations for sales total $14 billion by 2013. Channel Insider breaks out the most… Read more

  • Web Application Vulnerabilities Rise, Customers Still Ignore Them

    Ericka Chickowski

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    The number of Web application vulnerabilities shot up by 10 percent during the first half of 2009 compared to the last half of 2008, according to a new report released today by Cenzic. The report pulled together analysis of data compiled from customers using Cenzic’s ClickToSecure, an application security assessment and penetration testing managed service,… Read more

  • SMB Customers Embrace Managed Services

    Steve Wexler

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    New data from AMI-Partners confirms earlier studies that North American SMBs not only want managed services, but that they want them now. The research company has been collecting data annually, but recently went to quarterly surveys and the results indicate that annual spending on remote managed IT services is expected to increase 3.3 times in… Read more

  • Vertical IT Down But Not Out

    Vertical IT Down But Not Out

    Steve Wexler

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    Vertical IT Down But Not Out Vertical IT down but not outBy Steve Wexler No Title Gartner has released new data on what’s happening globally in the vertical IT markets.Sales will be down in 2009 but they are predicting growth in 2010. Channel Insider takes a closer look at what’s hot and what’s not. IT… Read more

  • HD Video Conferencing Heats Up as Logitech Buys LifeSize

    Jessica Davis

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    Hours after video conferencing vendor Tandberg’s (OSL:TAA) shareholders failed to approve a proposed deal to be acquired by networking giant Cisco (NASDAQ:CSCO), Logitech International (NASDAQ:LOGI) announced plans to acquire privately held video conferencing vendor LifeSize Communications. LifeSize offers high-definition video conferencing solutions for the budget-minded, with solutions priced at less than $10,000 and offered through… Read more