Channel Insider Staff

(Reuters) – Microsoft Corp’s new Bing search engine gained U.S. market share in its first month in operation but still trails dominant rival Google Inc, according to data released on Wednesday. Bing, launched on June 3 but available to some users a few days earlier, took 8.23 percent of U.S. Web searches in June, up […]

N-able Technologies is building an industry focus around retail much as it’s done with medical and financial in the past. With retailers trying to drive efficiencies throughout their organizations because of the poor economy, N-able is looking ahead to a growing business opportunity, said Mike Cullen, vice president of sales at N-able Technologies. The opportunity […]

Stretching out the refresh of PCs and notebooks can end up costing organizations more money over the long run than if they were to replace systems now that are three or more years old, said Robert Crooke, vice president and general manager of Intel’s Business Client Group, during a Webcast on the economic implications of […]

Managed Service Providers in the business of protecting their customers’ critical systems and data know they need to find reliable backup and disaster recovery software as part of their overall disaster recovery plan. But often the costs of licensing backup and disaster recovery software can be prohibitive. It’s not only important to find software that […]

As much discussion as there is surrounding managed services I find it useful to periodically sit back and have a bit of a reality check. Now, perhaps more than ever before, there are a great diversity of opinions about managed services. Personally, I think a lot of these ideas are not entirely based in reality […]

(Reuters) – A U.S. recovery is likely to begin this autumn, the worst of the crisis has passed and it is "reasonable to be optimistic for 2010," internet search giant Google’s chief executive Eric Schmidt said on Friday. Speaking at the Cannes Lions advertising festival in southern France, Schmidt said U.S. jobless claims indicated "the […]

Barracuda Networks says it has enhanced several of its partner programs to assist its resellers during the economic downturn in light of economic concerns such as stalled sales, tightening budgets, and worse, customers closing their doors altogether. Barracuda’s business continues to grow, the company says. And through its’ VAR partners that tend to be more […]

(Reuters) – Palm Inc (PALM.O) posted a narrower-than-expected fiscal fourth quarter loss on Thursday, and highlighted strong demand for its just-unveiled Pre smartphone. Palm’s shares rose more than 14 percent in after-hours trading. Executives said early signs were promising for the Pre, which will compete head-to-head with Apple Inc’s (AAPL.O) iPhone and Research in Motion’s […]

Adaptec Inc. announced the introduction of the Adaptec Series 5Z Unified Serial (SATA/SAS) RAID to its controller line. Built on Adaptec’s RAID Series 5 architecture, Series 5Z controllers integrate a flash-based Zero-Maintenance Cache Protection (ZMCP) module that provides data center managers with a single controller solution for data protection in the event of both power […]

Cloud computing is moving into mainstream adoption, and Gartner has identified its five attributes, which can be used to see how strongly a cloud solution or service adheres to the cloud computing model. "When approaching cloud computing, providers of cloud services and potential consumers of cloud services must examine the attributes of cloud computing to […]

(Reuters) – Microsoft Corp (MSFT.O) is to sell the standard home-user version of its new Windows 7 operating system for 8 percent less than the comparable version of its Vista system, as the global downturn hits spending on technology. The world’s largest software company, whose recent ads champion low-priced PCs against more expensive Apple Inc […]

CA has created a program intended to woo customers of Sun Microsystems and Oracle to migrate to CA’s Identity and Access Management (IAM) products. "CA SPF 100" would allow Sun’s and Oracle’s customers to trade their product licenses for equivalent licenses of CA Identity Manager, CA Role & Compliance Manager or CA SiteMinder — essentially […]