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Akamai Launches Global NetAlliance Partner Program
Cloud-based services provider Akamai Technologies, which specializes in platforms for optimizing Web and mobile content and applications, online HD video, and secure e-commerce, announced its NetAlliance Partner Program designed for global IT solution providers to integrate Akamai services into their offerings and to pass the value of Akamai’s globally distributed platform on to customers. The…
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Cloud Computing Dreams Crash into Reality
The promised benefits of cloud computing may be huge from easy collaboration to big cost savings, but relying on the cloud for computing presents its own set of problems. That’s according to partners, customers and experts at a Cisco Live roundtable which shattered a few myths and highlighted some key problems that need to be…
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Fonality Partner Plus Program Offers Hosted, Hybrid-Hosted Platforms
Business communications company Fonality announced its Partner Plus Program, designed to provide partners with more flexibility and tools necessary to drive voice over IP, unified communications and contact center sales among the small and midsize business market. A tiered designation structure was created to ensure partners are well-equipped to meet their customers’ needs with a…
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Businesses to Spend $32 Billion on Mobility Solutions in 2011
According to IT research firm Techaisle’s multi-country primary research study on small to medium-size business (SMB) mobility adoption and trends shows that U.S. SMBs are likely to spend $32 billion on mobility solutions in 2011. Overall, 81 percent of SMBs are either currently implementing or planning to implement some type of mobility solution ranging from…
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Cisco Upgrades Catalyst Series of Switches
Cisco Systems is updating the Catalyst 6500 Series of switches with new products and new features designed to improve performance in an market that is growing ever more competitive. This update is not just limited to a hardware refresh, but it includes more than 200 software updates. As the “workhorse family” of switches that stretches…
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Cisco’s Chambers Keynote Foreshadows Restructuring
While Cisco Systems continues to innovate, it has become too complex and needs to become more streamlined and easier to work with, CEO John Chambers said in his opening keynote at the Cisco Live show in Las Vegas. As a result, Chambers acknowledged the company will undergo a restructuring although he didn t disclose any…