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VMware: Don`t Be Afraid of the Cloud
In an effort to spur its solution providers into immediate action, VMware execs urged their partners to differentiate themselves as quickly as possible through enhancing their virtualization skills and experimenting with private and public cloud integration. At the company’s recent PartnerExchange event in Las Vegas, VMware execs suggested a variety of engagement models to encourage…
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Google DocVerse Acquisition End Game: A Microsoft Office, Google Apps Bridge
Image via Wikipedia Can partners and customers hedge their bets in terms of creating pilot projects of Google Apps? Google’s acquisition of DocVerse last week makes it more likely than ever, offering the promise of enabling a bridge between Microsoft Office and Google Apps. (Google celebrated the year anniversary of its Google Apps channel partner…
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Google Acquisition Lets Microsoft Office Users Share Documents on Web
(Reuters) – Google Inc stepped up its assault on Microsoft Corp’s productivity software business with the acquisition of a small start-up company that allows Microsoft users to edit and share their documents on the Web. Google said on its company blog on Friday that it has acquired San Francisco-based DocVerse. Terms of the deal were…
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Microsoft Channel Chief to Outline Cloud Opportunity
Starting with an expansive speech CEO Steve Ballmer gave at the University of Washington last week, Microsoft appears to be continuing a full-court press of its cloud computing strategy, assigning its highest-level executives to get the word out that the company is serious about the online software world. Many in the channel need convincing, which…
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Business Intelligence for the Cloud Provides ERP, CRM Integration Opportunity
If you’re a traditional VAR and you are looking at the potential of the cloud business model, it may be hard to see how X amount of dollars per user per month will add up to enough for your business to survive at all, let alone thrive and grow. You are used to the big…
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HP ProCurve Visionary Joins Brocade, Slams Cisco, HP Data Center Plans
Cisco and HP may be pushing their new monolithic architectures in the data center, but customers in that segment tend to “move in a much more cautious and judicious fashion,” according to John McHugh, the HP executive credited with building the ProCurve line into a billion dollar business. McHugh spoke to Channel Insider from his…