Year: 2012

  • Ingram Micro Intros Data Wipe Service for Retired Hardware

    Alison Diana

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    Virtualization, cloud computing, and data-center consolidation leave in their wake unwanted hardware—and an environmental and security headache for solution providers and their customers. To address these concerns, Ingram Micro today unveiled its IT Asset Disposition (ITAD) Services for resale by channel partners in North America. Through a partnership with U.S. Micro, Ingram Micro’s ITAD Services… Read more

  • Iomega Breaks SMB Storage Price Barrier

    Frank Ohlhorst

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    Data storage space is like closet space, there never seems to be enough. Iomega is looking to bring enterprise-sized storage to the SMB sector with a family of low priced NAS units. The entry level StorCenter ix2 starts out with 1TByte of storage with an estimated street price of around $220, other models in the… Read more

  • IBM Unveils New Social Media Initiatives for Business Partners, Customers

    Alison Diana

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    As part of its ongoing social media offerings, IBM today unveiled five new initiatives designed to help business partners and their clients more fully integrate these technologies within their organizations. After all, sales of social business software are expected to grow at 61 percent through 2016, when they will reach sales of $6.4 billion versus… Read more

  • Avaya Launches IP Office 8.0 Unified Communications Platform

    Nathan Eddy

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    Business communications and collaboration systems and services specialist Avaya unveiled IP Office 8.0, the latest version of the company’s unified communications solution for small to medium-size businesses. The updated version introduces a range of advancements for improving collaboration, including a set of mobile capabilities designed to drive better team performance and keep mobile workers connected… Read more

  • AT&T Joins OpenStack Cloud Community

    Channel Insider Staff

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    AT&T has joined the OpenStack community as the first major carrier to take part in the open-source cloud computing project. By joining OpenStack, AT&T can lend its hand in pushing the project forward while also tapping into the OpenStack cloud technology for AT&T s own developer cloud initiative announced Jan. 9. OpenStack is an infrastructure… Read more

  • HP Launches Envy 14 Spectre Ultrabook

    Channel Insider Staff

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    Hewlett-Packard is bringing a new level of manufacturing sophistication to the increasingly competitive ultrabook space with the release of its Envy 14 Spectre, which the company is showing off at the Consumer Electronics Show this week in Las Vegas. The ultrabook features lightweight, scratch-resistant glass on the lid, display, palmrest and HP ImagePad. The notebook, which starts at… Read more