Year: 2009
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IBM Woos Developers With Cloud Offerings
IBM on Friday unveiled two new cloud-based services aimed at software developers looking to build applications in the cloud. IBM Rational Software Delivery Services for Cloud Computing consists of application lifecycle management tools made available as cloud services so that developers, partners and customers can access them on an as-needed basis to build and test… Read more
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7 Ways to Drive Additional Revenue with Windows 7
With Windows 7 as the heir-apparent to the eight-year-old XP operating system (Vista? What Vista?), VARs are gearing up to lead their customers into the transition. For the smallest businesses, this will happen by default as their typical purchasing venues sell only Windows 7 machines. But the rest will rely on VARs to lead the… Read more
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IBM`s Mid-Market Push
IBM is hell-bent on become the preferred technology and services provider for mid-market customers globally. And in true big-Blue form, they’ve focused thousands of people and a lot of money to get there. With nearly 25% marketshare across their broad portfolio in the mid-market globally, they’re starting to gain meaningfully broad traction in the sub-1,000-user… Read more
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HP, Cisco Initiatives Highlight Data Center Convergence
Got unified computing? These days vendors are pushing these technologies—preintegrated storage, servers, networking and virtualization—in the form of products or reference designs as the answer for all that ails the data center. The message to customers is that these systems make things all work together more efficiently, saving management time, improving system functions and perhaps… Read more
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Workshare Offers Workshare Compare for PowerPoint
Microsoft partners looking to add some incremental value to Microsoft Office sales, take heed. Workshare has introduced Workshare Compare for PowerPoint, software that tracks changes to Power Point presentations that have been edited and reviewed by users besides the author. It’s a need that’s on the rise. Workshare says that about 30 million PowerPoint presentations… Read more
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Symantec Reveals 2010 Channel Plan at Partner Engage Conference
Security and storage channel providers converged in Orlando, Fla., this week to meet up with representatives at Symantec for the company’s annual Partner Engage conference. The intensive day-and-a-half event is highlighted by several sneak peeks into Symantec’s channel plans for 2010, including a new demo platform and a newly adjusted renewal incentive plan tweaked to… Read more