Year: 2014
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Microsoft Sets Sights on Oracle RDBMS
Over the years, Microsoft has steadily gained market share on Oracle in the relational database management system (RDBMS) space, with the possible exception of high-end, mission-critical applications. But with the arrival of a Microsoft SQL Server 2014 offering that can run both transactional processing and analytics applications in-memory, Microsoft clearly has its sights set on… Read more
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Stratus Technologies Beefs Up Its Partner Program
Stratus Technologies launched a new global partner program designed to give channel partners greater flexibility and tools to meet the requirements of their business models. The program offers incentives, a range of certification and accreditation options, and margin opportunities to sell Stratus’ products for “always-on” availability across a variety of industry sectors, the company said.… Read more
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Highlights of Tech Companies’ Latest Earnings Reports
Categories: Tech CompaniesEarnings reports A Slide in Apple’s iPad Sales Wall Street expressed concern that iPad sales in the last quarter fell 1 million units year-over-year. When CEO Tim Cook discussed Apple’s earnings, he said he wasn’t worried about those numbers and that sales were in line with the company’s expectations. Microsoft Still has Some Trouble With… Read more
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New Mobile App Development Opportunities Emerge for Channel
While mobile computing has been on the rise for several years now, it’s only recently that solution providers in the channel have seen the emergence of mobile application development platforms (MADPs) that they could actually build a practice around. On one hand, traditional enterprise IT stalwarts such as Oracle, IBM and SAP have been working… Read more
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10 Fast Facts About Arrow’s Cloud Services
Categories: Cloud Computing10 Fast Facts About Arrow’s Cloud Services Cloud-Selling Platform Arrow brings its ArrowSphere cloud service brokerage and aggregation platform to North America in 2013. Services include white-label Web stores to help drive cloud adoption, along with services around building and scaling cloud practices. Supporting a Web-Scale Infrastructure Approach Arrow signed an agreement to sell the… Read more
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Channel News Briefs: Week of July 28
Continuity Software Unveils New Channel Partner Program Continuity Software, a provider of service availability risk management offerings, has launched its global AvailabilityGuard Channel Partner Program, which is open to new channel partners around the globe, enabling them to offer the AvailabilityGuard software suite to customers in their respective markets. This offering provides high availability (HA) and disaster… Read more