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NetApp Eliminates $10K Partner Fee
If you want to limit the number of potential customers for any given service, make anyone who wants to participate pay a fee. This approach may make sense for places looking to create a sense of exclusivity and ensure that they don’t overwhelm a limited capacity — say swim clubs, or one-man professional services organizations.…
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VMware Faces Virtual Reality
A year after VMware’s successful IPO, virtualization has shifted gears from niche technology to the must-have underpinning for projects ranging from disaster recovery to data backup to desktop application delivery. It’s not surprising, then, that other companies are developing products for the market that VMware has been synonymous with up until now. So CEO Diane…
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CA Focuses on Managing the Identity Lifecycle
CA is unveiling the next phase of its identity and access management strategy with new releases designed to strengthen certification and compliance reporting for enterprises. The company June 9 announced plans for three products — CA Identity Manager, CA Access Control and CA Security Compliance Manager — as part of the CA Identity Access Manager release 12. The three…
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Three Oil-Shocking Challenges to Hit the Channel
If you’re worried about the rising cost of gasoline and crude oil on your business, start thinking beyond basic transportation costs. Analysts are now saying that the cost for raw materials derived from crude oil will start following the same trajectory as gas prices at the pump. Setting aside the entire foreign dependency for energy…
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Move Over, AJAX, Microsoft Pushing ARAX
Move over, AJAX; Microsoft is pushing a different scenario, known as Asynchronous Ruby and XML, or ARAX. At the RailsConf conference for Ruby on Rails developers in Portland, Ore., on May 30, John Lam, creator of the IronRuby project at Microsoft, told eWEEK that as Microsoft’s Silverlight rich Internet application environment takes off it will…
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Eight Steps to Greener IT
By Channel Insider Staff 1. Virtualize Servers It’s time to end the "one application-one server" paradigm favored by many organizations. Moving multiple applications to a single server can boost server use by 15 to 90 percent.
