Jessica Davis

Video conferencing has been considered one of the primary strategic investments for business in an age of tighter travel budgets and the demand for higher productivity. Take one look at the merger and acquisition activity this year in the space, and you can see that companies are placing their bets. Cisco is hoping to acquire […]

8 Significant Technology Acquisitions of 2009(plus one that didn’t happen) By Jessica Davis 8 Significant Technology Acquisitions of 2009 (plus one that didn’t happen) Companies can gain advantages by making big strategic moves and taking advantage of bargains. Big movers this year include Cisco and Oracle, certainly. But here are our picks for the biggest […]

Hours after video conferencing vendor Tandberg’s (OSL:TAA) shareholders failed to approve a proposed deal to be acquired by networking giant Cisco (NASDAQ:CSCO), Logitech International (NASDAQ:LOGI) announced plans to acquire privately held video conferencing vendor LifeSize Communications. LifeSize offers high-definition video conferencing solutions for the budget-minded, with solutions priced at less than $10,000 and offered through […]

Unified monitoring vendor Nimsoft has expanded its channel partner program to formally include two new types of partners beyond its standard managed service provider partners. Nimsoft’s announcement today follows the company’s news from last month that it has created monitoring integrations with four major players in the managed services and SAAS space—Google Apps for Business, […]

Solution providers are viewing the release of VMware View 4 as a game-changing disruptive technology that could revolutionize how IT infrastructure is deployed today. That’s because the technology, announced this week by VMware, delivers a virtualized PC over IP to the client side, simplifying IT management and disaster recovery in addition to significantly reducing costs. […]

With unemployment hitting 10.2 percent last week and a few other technology vendors announcing layoffs, the question arises of what exactly does this mean to solution provider community. Sister publication eWEEK says the unemployment picture for technology companies is shady, and that education and health services are the only categories showing any signs of positive […]

Looking to create a complete video-enabled collaboration solution for the new millennium, Cisco today introduced a handful of new products and outlined how they would work together, enabling businesses to increase productivity and reduce travel. The announcements include nods to next-generation collaboration standards as well as providing an answer to those who have said that […]

Got unified computing?  These days vendors are pushing these technologies—preintegrated storage, servers, networking and virtualization—in the form of products or reference designs as the answer for all that ails the data center. The message to customers is that these systems make things all work together more efficiently, saving management time, improving system functions and perhaps […]

Microsoft partners looking to add some incremental value to Microsoft Office sales, take heed. Workshare has introduced Workshare Compare for PowerPoint, software that tracks changes to Power Point presentations that have been edited and reviewed by users besides the author. It’s a need that’s on the rise. Workshare says that about 30 million PowerPoint presentations […]

Looking to make it easier for channel partners to deploy data center and cloud technology at customer sites, Cisco has formed a coalition with EMC and VMware which will create reference designs for an infrastructure architecture it calls Vblock which incorporates technologies from all three companies including Cisco’s Unified Computing line up of products. The […]

When Cisco Systems first introduced its Unified Computing System—a collection of data center products sold as a complete and integrated solution—the networking giant said initial sales would be direct only. But the game is changing and on Nov. 2 IT networking distributor Westcon Group announced a partnership with Cisco that will enable it to offer […]

VARs looking to help their customers get in on economic stimulus funds for electronic medical records will soon have yet another option open to them. IT distributor Ingram Micro has confirmed that it will announce a partnership with a prominent EMR vendor later in November. The company says the deal is designed to help make […]