Chris Talbot

Logitech’s unified communications push that began with its acquisition of LifeSize and subsequent push into the enterprise video conferencing market is continuing with a partnership between the peripheral manufacturer and GN Netcom, maker of the high-end Jabra headsets. According to Eric Kintz, vice president of Logitech for Business, there’s an opportunity for Logitech to become […]

Spending on unified communications is poised for big growth in the next year, according to a new survey of IT solution providers by CompTIA. UC spending is expected to begin outpacing other IT spending, with 49 percent of 600 respondents to CompTIA online surveys saying their UC technology expenditures will grow relatively faster than their […]

Enterprise-level business and IT executives and decision-makers may now have a greater understanding of the benefits of private and hybrid cloud computing environments, but a new study has found that there is still a large gap between expectations and the reality of what cloud computing and virtualization offer. Symantec’s “2011 Virtualization and Journey to the […]

HP (NYSE:HPQ) has created a channel partner program for cloud computing designed to enable all of its indirect channel partners to capitalize on the growing cloud computing opportunity, the company announced at its Discover conference today. The new HP CloudAgile program spans the entire HP enterprise portfolio of products, including CloudSystem, HP’s cloud platform launched […]

HP (NYSE:HPQ) has rolled out the next phase in its converged infrastructure strategy with new products unveiled at its HP Discover conference this week. This strategy and products enable greater agility for customers, an area that C-level executives say is an important contributor to the success of businesses today, according to an HP survey. And […]

Peripheral manufacturer Logitech has traditionally played in the consumer and SMB spaces, but the company will be pushing further into the enterprise space in the coming weeks and months with news related to its 18-month-old acquisition of LifeSize. Part of that news, which Logitech and LifeSize representatives wouldn’t spill, is a new focus on enterprise […]

As the proliferation of cloud services continues and more channel partners are getting into reselling the services of others, there’s a big question mark forming, and there’s no real answer yet: Who owns the customer? In a traditional hardware or software resale deal, resellers make their money off of resale margins, hopefully followed by service […]

Spammers have upped the game of fooling end users by establishing their own fake URL-shortening services, according to a new report from Symantec. The dangers of clicking on unknown shortened URLs are higher now according to Symantec’s May 2011 MessageLabs Intelligence Report. The report found that spammers have set up their own fake URL-shortening services […]

Challenges related to the cloud aren’t stopping businesses from adopting the service delivery model. That’s according to a new survey by Network Instruments of 94 network engineers, IT managers and executives who attended the recent Interop networking event. The results showed a surprisingly large increase in cloud service adoption in the last year, but it […]

Whaleback SystemsCrystalBlue Managed Voice Services http://www.whalebacksystems.com/ Service Launched: 2010List Price:$29.95-$69.95 per user per monthWhaleback’s focus is on managed voice services, and its cloud offering launched in 2010. Whaleback recently updated its channel partner program to give partners the ability to sell its cloud-based VoIP services to SMEs. Intermedia Hosted PBX http://www.intermedia.net/products/hosted-pbx.aspx Service Launched: 2010List Price: […]

Cisco Systems is taking its Unified Computing System mainstream with reference architectures that support Microsoft SQL server. The partnership puts Cisco in the same realm as a Microsoft partner as competitors HP, IBM and Dell. New data center solutions from Cisco include Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 Fast Track Data Warehouse 3.0 for Cisco UCS, […]

The consumerization of IT will force more change in the next 10 years than any other trend in business or technology, and part of that change will be a continued drive towards cloud computing service models. That’s according to Citrix Systems’ CEO Mark Templeton, who addressed the issues around the consumerization of IT and its […]