Carolyn April

Americans say they want to go green – with a caveat. They want to go green, but not if it means being uncomfortable or inconvenienced. Not exactly surprising. Those are the findings of a recent national consumer survey by the Shelton Group, which polled 1,006 consumers on making sacrifices to live in a more environmentally […]

MIT Sloan School of Management researchers on Friday released an IT management book based on a global study of 1,800 organizations that demonstrates what many solution providers and integrators have known for years: Smart IT investments equal strategic business assets to a company and increase margins, drive revenue growth and increase efficiencies. The business case […]

MIT Sloan School of Management researchers on Friday released an IT management book based on a global study of 1,800 organizations that demonstrates what many solution providers and integrators have known for years: Smart IT investments equal strategic business assets to a company and increase margins, drive revenue growth and increase efficiencies. The business case […]

Breaking ground on new and emerging technology areas is what keeps this industry alive and kicking. Yet established, market-leading technology vendors face a tricky balancing act when they set their sights on new frontiers. At the same time they are opening their wallets and committing their engineering teams to innovate the next best thing, companies […]

In yet-another sign that IT is truly destined to be a service, IBM and Qwest inked a deal this week that will enable Qwest to offer its mid-sized business customers a host of managed services spanning security, remote monitoring and unified communications. The five-year agreement between the two companies enables Qwest to offer a number […]

Hewlett-Packard’s ProCurve networking division on Monday took a swipe at rival Cisco with the rollout of four new 10/100-based switches touted to simplify overall management from core to the edge. The new offerings reside in HP ProCurve’s 3500 family of form-factor switches, accommodating customers with 10/100 Ethernet networks, while providing them with the benefits of […]

NetApp evolved its partner offerings this week, introducing a new name to the partner program, reshaping its field portal and providing additional sales and marketing resources. The storage company laid out some strategic areas of focus for the coming fiscal year, including diversifying its partner base to reach out more effectively global systems integrators, hosting […]

In his continued quest to acquire Data Domain, EMC Chairman and CEO Joe Tucci went hard-sell this week to convince Data Domain employees – the vast majority of whom are also shareholders – that they would benefit in far greater ways if purchased by his storage juggernaut versus rival NetApp. In an open letter to […]

Looking to get a jump on sales of Microsoft’s forthcoming Windows 7 operating system, Best Buy is planning a host of pre-release specials and incentives for retail customers. In an internal memo to Best Buy employees posted on the Website engadget.com, Best Buy’s management details a multifaceted presales plan that will be rolled out starting […]

When Cisco Systems announced it was entering the blade server market at the beginning of the year—on the heels of earlier jumps into storage, unified communications and security—it was clear that the titan of networking was seeking a world beyond switches and routers. At the Cisco Partner Summit in Boston on June 3, the company […]