Chris Talbot

At its annual VMworld conference in Las Vegas, VMware announced new and updated products designed to help companies looking to move to hybrid cloud environments that will bring channel partners opportunities to build attached services revenue. The products announced include a new feature of the vCloud Datacenter Program called Global Connect, vCloud Connector v1.5, Disaster […]

With the TouchPad experiencing one of the shortest product lifecycles in IT in the last few years (some argue the Microsoft Kin had a shorter lifespan, but it did get a temporary resurrection), analysts are pointing the finger for its untimely death at a major switch in HP’s strategic focus, product launch delays and confusing […]

Dell is pushing its EqualLogic storage products into the next generation with the release of the EqualLogic PS6100 and PS4100 Series, both of were designed to provide greater capacity and better performance than the previous generation of the storage products. The PS4100 Series is an extension of the PS4000 Series and was developed with small […]

Cloudera is turning to the channel to build out its business around Apache Hadoop. A new partner program will also introduce what Cloudera is calling the industry’s first Hadoop certification program. According to Ed Albanese, head of business development at Cloudera, the installed base for the open source Apache Hadoop is growing, and that’s driving […]

A third of small- and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) have already adopted the cloud in one way or another, and another 35 percent are expected to invest in cloud computing technology in some form in the next year, according to the latest research from CompTIA. As technology becomes more affordable and constrained budgets begin to open […]

The U.S. General Services Administration (GSA) has become the first federal government agency to shifts its more than 17,000 employees and contractors to the cloud by adopting the Google Apps for Government platform. The federal agency migrated its employees and contractors to Google Apps in a six-month period, and it just announced the completion of […]

Logitech subsidiary, LifeSize is expanding its business to the cloud. The provider of on-premise videoconferencing solutions is launching videoconferencing cloud services with, LifeSize Connections. The cloud-based HD videoconferencing service is aimed at businesses that haven’t yet taken the plunge into telepresence and desktop videoconferencing, in part because of the capital expenditures needed on pricey hardware. […]

Google has confirmed that the Google App Engine experienced a Java App Engine outage on the evening of July 14, 2011, causing chaos amongst various Java-based applications on Google App Engine for about 4 and a half hours. The outage began at 7 pm PT, at which point applications affected by the downtime experienced high […]

The promised benefits of cloud computing may be huge from easy collaboration to big cost savings, but relying on the cloud for computing presents its own set of problems. That’s according to partners, customers and experts at a Cisco Live roundtable which shattered a few myths and highlighted some key problems that need to be […]

Cisco Systems is updating the Catalyst 6500 Series of switches with new products and new features designed to improve performance in an market that is growing ever more competitive. This update is not just limited to a hardware refresh, but it includes more than 200 software updates. As the “workhorse family” of switches that stretches […]

Everything in IT continues to get more complicated, and with the proliferation of public and private cloud environments and services, the complexity is only increasing. These complications are even finding their way into the basics of managed services provided by MSPs. Remote monitoring and management (RMM) is increasing in complexity for MSPs because of the […]

Brad Brooks Brad Brooks left his role as Microsoft corporate vice president for Windows consumer marketing and product management and became vice president of worldwide enterprise marketing and solutions at Juniper Networks. Emilio Umeoka Emilio Umeoka, former president of Microsoft Asia Pacific, joined Juniper Networks as the senior vice president of worldwide partners business. Luanne […]