Year: 2012

  • Facebook Files for IPO, Reveals Business Details

    Channel Insider Staff

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    Facebook, which is barely eight years old but will record its 1 billionth registered user sometime this spring, filed an application Feb. 1 with the Securities and Exchange Commission for an initial public offering of stock potentially worth $10 billion or more. When the stock is issued at some point in the near future, Facebook–with… Read more

  • ChannelEyes: Will It Transform the Channel?

    Pedro Pereira

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    If the 2000 decade was about automation for the IT services channel, the current decade could well be about social media. For many out there, the jury is still out on the effectiveness of social media in a business context. But now that the channel is about to get a dedicated social networking service, some… Read more

  • Sidepath Gets Mazda America Rolling Again

    Alison Diana

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    Mazda North American Operations was spinning its wheels. The auto-maker’s finance and account department stored terabytes of data, none of which could be archived, and each time neared capacity on its NetApp system, Mazda had to spend a lot of money to upgrade, CIO Jim DiMarzio told Channel Insider during an interview at the Rolex… Read more

  • School District Solves Outdated PCs, Budget Cut Problems with Desktop Virtualization

    Chris Talbot

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    Doing more with less is a challenge for every IT department, but for the organization facing a huge budget cut while being forced to continue operating with 2,500 out-of-date PCs, there’s an even greater challenge to overcome. This scenario was put in front of Presidio, a Greenbelt, Maryland-based solutions provider with offices and staff around… Read more

  • ShoreTel Acquires Hosted Unified Communications Specialist M5 Networks

    Nathan Eddy

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    ShoreTel, a provider of IP phone systems with integrated unified communications (UC), announced it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire M5 Networks, a specialist in UC. Under the terms of the agreement, M5 shareholders will receive approximately $84 million in cash and 9.5 million shares of ShoreTel stock, which equates to a total of… Read more

  • Level Platforms to Offer Mobile Device Management

    Jessica Davis

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    Level Platforms has introduced Mobile Device Management as a key new feature in its Managed Workplace 2012, enabling IT service providers to manage and monitor smartphones and tablets. The company will roll out MDM during its road show this month. The offering delivers on what so many MSPs have been grappling to find as customer… Read more