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IBM Doubles the Money for Partners Displacing Oracle
No doubt this will be a small comfort to Oracle CEO Larry Ellison and friends, but IBM’s doubling of money paid to partners for displacing Oracle products is not about just swapping competitive products, says Sandy Carter, vice president, IBM Software Group Business Partners. "This is more about delivering more value to the client,” she…
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Data Centers Get Virtualized Management 10GbE Fabric Option
Voltaire, a provider of scale-out data center fabrics, has announced two software products that the company says will offer better performance and management capabilities to scale out 10-gigabit Ethernet fabrics. The products take the capabilities Voltaire has made available in its Infiniband products and makes those features available on Ethernet infrastructures. Available now is Voltaire…
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Small Business to Get Free Help with Broadband
SCORE, an organization that bills itself the “Counselor to America’s Small Business,” announced that The SCORE Foundation rallied corporate partners for a combined donation of $1.1 million to jump-start a nationwide public/private consortium to help small businesses compete in the Internet age by using broadband technologies. The consortium will offer training, tools and resources, all…
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MSPs Get Hosted Network Management Option
Apparent Networks has updated its PathView Cloud hosted network performance management service to make it easier for managed service providers (MSPs) to monitor their customers’ network performance while also generating service revenue. The new version of PathView Cloud contains several enhancements and new features, with the most important ones providing more revenue generation capabilities to…
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Juniper Scoops Up Ankeena Networks
Juniper Networks has signed a definitive agreement to acquire new media infrastructure technology provider Ankeena Networks. The acquisition will support Juniper’s “New Network” vision, building on the vendor’s ability to provide its customers with the technology they need deliver video on the IP network. Additionally, instead of partnering with another vendor to offer these capabilities,…
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Avaya Moves Full-Steam Ahead with Nortel Channel
Since completing its acquisition of Nortel Enterprise Solutions in December, Avaya has been busy migrating both its own and Nortel’s channel partners to the new Avaya Connect partner program. According to Avaya’s channel lead, the company has already surpassed its goal of signing up Nortel partners for the program. When the acquisition was finished, Avaya’s…