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Distributor: IP Telephony Is Calling Out to VARs
HERSHEY, Pa.—Walking the show floor at D&H Distributing’s 10th annual Mid-Atlantic Technology Show, it’s clear as a bell that IP telephony is the hot topic for VARs this year, and the distributor believes the area is one that will continue to grow. Voice networking and IP telephony vendors made up a sizable portion of the…
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Avaya CEO Stepping Down
Avaya officials earlier this week confirmed that the networking vendor’s President and CEO Lou D’Ambrosio will step down for medical reasons. "Lou has been a guiding force at Avaya during his six-year tenure, the last two as CEO," said Dave Roux, co-founder of technology investment firm Silver Lake and non-executive chairman of Avaya, in a…
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VMware Prepares for Hyper-V
ORLANDO, Fla.—Eric Horschman knows that the once-cozy relationship that VMware and Microsoft once enjoyed is about to change in the next few weeks. “We’re clearly about to go into direct competition with Microsoft with its Hyper-V technology,” Horschman, the director of product marketing for VMware, said in an interview here at the Microsoft TechEd 2008…
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Symantec, Citrix Unveil New VI Package
LAS VEGAS—Symantec introduced its new Veritas Virtual Infrastructure enterprise product—developed in concert with Citrix—June 10 at the company’s Vision user conference here at the Venetian Hotel. Veritas Virtual Infrastructure combines Symantec’s Veritas Storage Foundation storage management capabilities with the server operations of Citrix XenServer. This combination of technologies will give data center managers centralized control of…
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An Economic Stimulus for the Channel
It’s good to know that a government that decides to hand out money when the economy goes south can also do something right once in a while. By now, surely you’ve heard of the economic stimulus package the geniuses in Washington put together in the midst of escalating oil prices and the sub-prime mortgage mess.…
