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Oracle Shows Partners Some Love as HP and IBM Try to Woo Them Away
With so many others like IBM and HP reaching out helping hands to Oracle partners in the wake of its ongoing acquisition spree—five already this year, including Sun Microsystems—it seems only fair that Oracle respond with something more channel-friendly than the decision to take Sun’s top 4,000 customers direct. The Oracle PartnerNetwork (OPN) has announced…
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Cisco Fires Back at HP, Talks Business Transformation
Even as HP was turning up the heat on Cisco Systems at its partner summit in Las Vegas, held April 26 to 28, Cisco was also acknowledging a new era of intense competition between the two companies during its own partner conference in San Francisco, held the same week. "We know you had a choice…
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Spiceworks Partners with Rackspace on Hosted E-Mail
Rackspace Hosting, a provider of hosting and cloud computing, has joined forces with Spiceworks to help small to medium-size businesses manage their Rackspace e-mail hosting services through the free Spiceworks social IT management application. The integrated systems help streamline the jobs of SMB IT professionals by allowing them to monitor and administrate Rackspace cloud e-mail…
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EMC Sees IT Storage Recovery
IT solution providers looking for sales of IT storage solutions to recover after the deep recession of 2009 need not look any further than EMC’s (NYSE:EMC) earnings report released in April 2010. The technology giant saw 28 percent growth year over year for its Symmetrix line, and 32 percent growth for midrange products including Celerra,…