Channel Insider Staff

Xerox CEO Anne Mulcahy, one of the longest-tenured and most powerful female chief executives in the technology industry, is retiring from her post in July, according to the company. Mulcahy will be succeeded by Ursula Burns, who is currently president at Xerox. In the meantime, Mulcahy will remain on as chairman of Xerox’s board. Mulcahy, […]

Cisco Systems is trying to make it more profitable for its partners to sell core routing and switching products in an effort to take advantage of what the vendor sees as a global $23 billion (US) opportunity. As part of the Navigate To Accelerate program, the new Core Accelerator promotion provides additional margin and profit […]

NEW YORK (Reuters) – Dell Inc DELL.O is still cautious about corporate technology spending, but plans to make acquisitions and aggressively pursue enterprise customers in an effort to win back market share in the United States.   Steve Schuckenbrock, president of the No. 2 PC maker’s large enterprise business, said on Thursday that corporations in […]

Trend Micro is introducing the latest version of Trend Micro Worry-Free Business Security at a time when its research shows more than half of small to midsized businesses (SMBs) continue to struggle with adequate security measures. Reinforced with new features that are powered by the Trend Micro Smart Protection Network, this next-generation security infrastructure provides […]

ORLANDO: From a storage vendor’s perspective, i.e. EMC, the fact that digital data is growing at an explosive rate, with the "digital universe" doubling every 18 months and expected to be five times larger by 2012, is good news. But from a customer’s perspective, storing and managing that data continues to be a nightmare. One […]

Level Platforms is making it easier for the channel to remotely monitor and manage both on-premises technology and managed services that are increasingly becoming part of customers’ IT environments. The company has launched the Managed Cloud Services program, which offers support for Microsoft hosted applications like the Business Productivity Online Suite that features Exchange Online, […]

EMC started off its ninth customer and partner conference with some cloud announcements and some surprising findings in its latest study on what’s happening in the storage market. Essentially, EMC is saying it’s good to be in the data business, or information lifecycle management, as it likes to style it. The study by IDC found […]

Image spam made another resurgence during April and early May, according to the latest spam report from Symantec, but as usual spammers also latched onto headline news topics to lure in their victims, including swine flu, the end of President Barack Obama’s first 100 days in office and Mother’s Day. According to Dermot Harnett, principal […]

PARIS (Reuters) – Sales of smartphones are set to grow 12-15 percent in 2009, said Lee Williams, chief of the Symbian Foundation, the consortium of companies around the world’s most popular smartphone operating system.   Smartphones are seen as a bright spot on the shrinking cellphone market this year, with some analysts forecasting above 30 […]

  NEW YORK (Reuters) – Twitter is working on various ways to make money from its fast-growing microblogging service, but advertising is an option that is not currently being considered.   Twitter co-founder Biz Stone said on Monday that the company is developing various add-on tools and services for the businesses and professional users of […]

NEW YORK (Reuters) – SanDisk Corp Chief Executive Eli Harari said 2009 could turn out to be "significantly better" than anticipated at the start of the year as big cutbacks in flash memory production bring balance back to an industry stung by oversupply.   Shares of SanDisk rose after Harari said prices for flash memory […]

NEW YORK (Reuters) – Eyeing a chance to bear down on its rivals, Xerox (XRX.N) plans to keep up the pace of spending on research and development, even if it means cannibalizing some of its products as customers rethink their choices about office equipment.   Xerox President Ursula Burn is driving engineers at the printing […]