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Tone Software Rolls Out Partner Program for MSPs
Tone Software Corp., an Anaheim, Calif.-based provider of end-to-end monitoring and management solutions, launched the ReliaTel-Streamline Partner Plus Program, providing managed service providers (MSPs), integrators, value added resellers (VARs) and channel partners with strategic sales, marketing and engineering support, the company says. The program is designed to empower Tone’s ReliaTel-Streamline MSP partners to build managed…
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Watching Old Friends Become Enemies
In a global virtual press and analyst roundtable, Cisco CTO Padmasree Warrior said blade servers being developed by Cisco for its Unified Computing Systems are not intended to compete with existing servers offered by IBM, Dell, Hewlett-Packard or Sun Microsystems. Rather, she says, the UCS strategy is to put the assets in place to help…
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N-able Puts Retail Vertical in Sights
N-able Technologies is building an industry focus around retail much as it’s done with medical and financial in the past. With retailers trying to drive efficiencies throughout their organizations because of the poor economy, N-able is looking ahead to a growing business opportunity, said Mike Cullen, vice president of sales at N-able Technologies. The opportunity…
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Cisco Sets Limits to Cloud Strategy
Cisco Systems’ Padmasree Warrior says the networking giant has no plans to fully engage in cloud computing market, but rather act as a player that supports and enables the remote delivery of applications and services. In a virtual roundtable with journalists and analysts around the world, Cisco’s chief technology officer described Cisco’s boundary in the…
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Battling Legacy Trusted Security Advisers
Everyone knows money is tight. No matter how many positive signs surface that the economy is rebounding, businesses are loathed to open their wallets for anything but projects that have an absolute positive ROI. That’s why security VARs with cost-saving solutions are doing so well; well, at least in theory. Something that some security service…
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Technology Spending Growth to Return in Q4
Waiting for an end to the recession? Wondering when your customers’ delayed projects will finally get the green light again? Forrester Research now says IT spending growth will return in the fourth quarter of this year and continue in 2010. That forecast aligns with a recent report from Gartner, which is now forecasting a return…