Channel Insider Staff

By Jessica Schroder Most VARs and MSPs know that moving into the vertical of EHR (Electronic Health Records) and EMR (Electronic Medical Records) is one area where their businesses should be heading.  There’s a large amount of federal money available, doctors are being offered incentives to transition to Electronic Health Records ($20 billion at last […]

A recently announced deal between longtime partners Dell and SAP involving a new in-memory application and storage appliance could turn out to be a significant landmark in the data center business. As a result of this partnership, announced last week at SAP’s Sapphire conference in Orlando, Fla., SAP’s customers will be able to deploy their […]

Two weeks after Microsoft said it would acquire Skype, the voice over IP company has begun cutting its ties with the open-source world. Asterisk was the first partner cut loose. Skype decided not to renew its agreement with Digium, which allowed Asterisk, the open-source telephony system, to be integrated with the Skype service, Digium said […]

Hewlett-Packard, IBM and Dell were among the familiar names at the top of IDC’s list of the top server vendors for the first quarter. Even Oracle, a year after buying Sun Microsystems, has become a known entity in the server space. However, new to the rankings is Cisco Systems, the networking giant that two years […]

Nearly three-quarters (71 percent) of small businesses surveyed by Newtek Business Services said they have never heard of cloud computing, underlining a fundamental lack of knowledge about the technology. Based on a poll of approximately 1,800 respondents, the survey found only 26 percent of those who had heard of cloud computing could describe what it […]

Both Hewlett-Packard and Xerox have made acquisitions in an effort to bolster their managed print services. Technology giant HP announced that it signed a definitive agreement to acquire substantially all of the assets of MSP provider Printelligent. The infrastructure, software and trained workforce of Printelligent, combined with HP’s channel relationships and base of services and […]

Dell has launched what the company is calling the thinnest 15-inch notebook on the planet—the XPS 15z laptop. It’s the start, the PC maker said in a May 24 announcement, of what will be a new series of thin and powerful Inspiron- and XPS-branded notebooks arriving later this year. The 15z runs second-generation Intel Core […]

Cisco announced new products and services to help enterprises migrate their existing IPv4 infrastructure to the next-generation IPv6 standard. Cisco added IPv6-specific features to its routers and switches to make it easier to deploy and manage dual-stack environments, the company said May 24. The new capabilities address the challenges organizations face to “unify” IPv4 and […]

Hewlett-Packard is rolling out the first offering in an aggressive plan to expand the technical support services it can offer on the Web. HP on May 24 announced the HP Support Center platform, an evolution of the company’s Always on Support offering. HP Support Center is designed to give commercial customers online access to the […]

Technology giant Intel has launched the AppUp Small Business Service, an offering running on the company’s Hybrid Cloud platform that is designed to enable server manufacturers, software vendors and service providers to offer small businesses the advantages of cloud computing with applications and data running on their own premises. Intel’s AppUp Small Business Service represents […]

Avaya officials are bulking up the company’s Avaya-one X solutions to offer greater communications capabilities to mobile workers. At its International Avaya User Group event in Las Vegas May 23, Avaya announced the new enhancements to Avaya-one X, which include support for a wide range of mobile devices—including Apple iPhones and smartphones running Google’s Android […]

For more than a year, Microsoft has been pushing an aggressive “all in” cloud strategy. The reason behind it is simple: Although desktop-bound software such as Windows and Office continues to dump tons of cash at the company’s front door, a paradigm shift is underway—one that threatens to leave Microsoft behind as consumers and businesses […]