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    IBM Expands Juniper, Brocade and Cisco Relationships

    Looking to boost its competitive position in a market where big technology vendors are increasingly seeking to provide customers with a complete solution – from servers to networking equipment – IBM has announced an expansion of its existing relationships with networking vendors Brocade, Cisco and Juniper. The announcement immediately led to speculation that IBM’s efforts…

    Jessica Davis

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    Accenture Acquires Nokia Professional Services Arm

    Looking to expand its capabilities for embedded software services in mobile devices, particularly smartphones, Accenture (NYSE:ACN) has announced plans to acquire Symbian Professional Services Operations from Nokia. The Nokia business unit provides engineering consulting and product services to mobile phone manufacturers, chipmakers and mobile operators around the world. Services will include advanced technical support, device-tuning,…

    Jessica Davis

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    Juniper Expands Capabilities of Adaptive Threat Management

    The networking vendor has been building out its Adaptive Threat Management solution since last summer when it made announcements around high-end routing and switching, but now it’s broadening the solution. While WAN acceleration capabilities have been available for some time, the new WAN acceleration capabilities in the Juniper product are focused around identity- and role-based…

    Channel Insider Staff

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    Chrome May Usher in a Shiny Future

    Talk about awkward: A chance encounter between Microsoft messiah Bill Gates and Google head-honcho Eric Schmidt just days after Google announced its intention to go after the foundation of the Microsoft empire: Windows. Gates –defender of the Windows faith – was confronted by reporters at last week’s Sun Valley business executive summit about rival Google’s…

    Lawrence Walsh

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    Fujitsu America Boosts Midmarket, Indirect Sales

    Looking to further expand its small business and midmarket reach through its reseller channel partners, Fujitsu announced its Primergy TX100 S1 server plus an expanded reseller agreement with Synnex. The moves follow Fujitsu’s appointment of Symantec‘s former vice president of global channel sales, Bill Buie, as senior vice president of Alliances, Channel and SI sales…

    Jessica Davis

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    Polycom’s New Strategy to Beat Cisco, Tandberg

    Polycom channel partners are likely to see the telepresence, video and voice communications vendor up its game when it comes to channel sales and marketing in the months ahead. That’s because the company has named a former Tandberg CEO and Cisco executive as its executive vice president of global field operations. Andrew Miller says that…

    Jessica Davis

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