Year: 2009
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EC Objects to Oracle, Sun Microsystems Deal
Categories: News and TrendsNEW YORK/WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The European Commission has objected to Oracle Corp’s acquisition of computer maker Sun Microsystems Inc, throwing the $7 billion deal into question. The commission said in a preliminary assessment that combining Sun’s MySQL database product and Oracle’s products could hurt competition in the database market, Sun said in a filing with… Read more
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Tandberg Shareholders Snub Cisco Offer
By Joergen Frich and Richard Solem OSLO (Reuters) – Cisco Systems (CSCO.O) said investors holding 9.37 percent of Tandberg’s (TAA.OL) shares had accepted the tender offer by the largest U.S. network equipment maker for the Norwegian videoconferencing company. Cisco said on November 9 it would extend its 17.2 billion Norwegian crown ($3.1 billion) offer to… Read more
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Finding a Place in the Clouds
Building clouds capable of delivering scalable, multitenant applications to scores of distributed customers is a daunting task even for large enterprises such as Microsoft and Google. But solution providers of all shapes and sizes are looking to the heavens to find their place in the clouds for the next generation of computing. Cloud computing is… Read more
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Nimsoft Extends Partner Program to Developers, Solution Providers
Unified monitoring vendor Nimsoft has expanded its channel partner program to formally include two new types of partners beyond its standard managed service provider partners. Nimsoft’s announcement today follows the company’s news from last month that it has created monitoring integrations with four major players in the managed services and SAAS space—Google Apps for Business,… Read more
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Solution Providers Call VMware View 4 Disruptive, Game-Changing
Categories: Cloud Computing, Managed Services, Networking, News and Trends, Partners, Tech Companies, VirtualizationSolution providers are viewing the release of VMware View 4 as a game-changing disruptive technology that could revolutionize how IT infrastructure is deployed today. That’s because the technology, announced this week by VMware, delivers a virtualized PC over IP to the client side, simplifying IT management and disaster recovery in addition to significantly reducing costs.… Read more
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Bleak Unemployment Numbers Spell Opportunity for VARs
With unemployment hitting 10.2 percent last week and a few other technology vendors announcing layoffs, the question arises of what exactly does this mean to solution provider community. Sister publication eWEEK says the unemployment picture for technology companies is shady, and that education and health services are the only categories showing any signs of positive… Read more