Channel Insider Staff

“You don’t know what you don’t know” might be the expression most appropriate for small and midsize businesses when it comes to the benefits of technology and their business, according to an independent survey of more than 500 SMB decision makers released at National Small Business Week. The study, commissioned by Verio, a provider of […]

Hewlett-Packard and Dell are continuing to build servers that bring graphics chips into the data center. HP officials on May 17 announced that Nvidia’s new Tesla M2090 GPU (graphics processing unit) will appear in a number of upcoming HP ProLiant servers aimed at the HPC (high-performance computing) space, a move they say will address organizations’ […]

Communications giant Comcast announced Metro Ethernet services as part of an ongoing strategy to expand its portfolio of business services to meet the requirements of larger customers. Targeted at midsize businesses with 20-500 employees, Comcast’s Metro Ethernet services provide access to the company’s fiber optic network for businesses with high-bandwidth needs and often multiple locations. […]

Brooke Cunningham, vice president of Worldwide Marketing for the Data Management Customer Solution Unit at CA Technologies is a speaker at the marcus evans 2nd Annual Strategic Channel Management Conference taking place on May 17-18 in San Francisco. Cunningham is responsible for the marketing strategy and programs that create awareness, demand and recognition for the […]

Atlanta—At the Microsoft TechEd North America 2011 conference here, Microsoft officials spoke on how to build, deploy, manage and scale applications for the cloud and for devices. In a keynote, Robert Wahbe, corporate vice president of the Server and Tools Marketing Group at Microsoft, said as the trend toward virtualization increases, the move to the […]

Iron Mountain has committed to refocusing itself on its 60-year-old core business, storage and protection of physical media and other property, and is getting out of the digital storage business. U.K.-based Autonomy, a fast-growing, multifaceted IT company, reported May 16 that it will acquire Iron Mountain’s digital archiving, e-discovery and online backup business for $380 […]

It’s an increasingly mobile world. The rise of smartphones and tablets has ushered in an era of “the PC in your pocket,” and each succeeding device seems to cram more and more memory and processing power into a smaller and smaller form-factor. Within this context, what use is the traditional desktop? Placed side-by-side with the […]

NEW YORK — News of the super-thin Lenovo ThinkPad X1 notebook may have leaked weeks ago, but that didn’t stop the company from giving a proper, enthusiastic welcome to the notebook it’s calling one of its most interesting products ever. At a dinner here for members of the press May 11, Lenovo executives showed off […]

Data center managers and CTOs already know that system downtime can be very expensive for an enterprise, but it’s possible they may not know the real extent of that expense when servers, networking and storage suffer a major outage. New industry research from Emerson Network Power released this week at the Uptime Institute Symposium in […]

IBM has launched yet another effort to get its competitors’ customers to move over to IBM’s software and systems. In particular, IBM is targeting Oracle with new migration resources to help Oracle software customers switch to IBM software. The new resources include no-charge financial and technology assessments, skills training courses, and proof of concepts to […]

May 16 (Reuters) – Research In Motion Ltd (TSE:RIM) (NASDAQ:RIMM) has recalled about 1,000 of its Playbook tablets which were shipped with a flawed operating system build that could pose problems during the initial set-up, technology blog Engadget and several other media channels reported. In a statement to CrackBerry.com, the Blackberry maker said the majority […]

IT distributor Ingram Micro announced a lineup of fully integrated virtualization solutions and complementary marketing enablement resources for channel partners selling to small and midsize businesses. The Ingram Micro Virtualization (IM-V) bundles include EMC VNXe storage systems, designed for simplicity, efficiency and affordability for smaller businesses, VMware’s vSphere and the Cisco Catalyst, Nexus and Unified […]