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EMC Ships New Bundle for VMware
EMC announced May 27 that it has begun shipping a new middleware bundle designed to simplify data backup and recovery on the two most ubiquitous business servers in the world—Microsoft Exchange Server and SQL Server — when they are deployed on the VMware platform. The bundle includes backup/recovery support for the new EMC Clariion AX4;…
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Facebook Isn`t the Biggest Time Waster
Time for a confession: I’m a Facebook junkie. I was a skeptic about the entire social networking phenomenon up until the day I created my Facebook page nearly six months ago. I had been a member of LinkedIn and Plaxo since the day of their inceptions nearly five years ago and never gained any real…
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Former eEye CEO to Join Microsoft
Ross Brown, former CEO of eEye Digital Security and a veteran in the channel will start at Microsoft on June 2, Microsoft says. Brown will assume the title of vice president of solution and ISV partners in the Worldwide Partner Group and will develop and manage Microsoft’s global partner account managers who work with ISVs,…
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Can System Builders Turn to Ubuntu?
Late last month, Ubuntu 8.04 arrived on the scene, right on time, right on its six-month refresh cycle and readily available via a simple ISO image file download. While that may have been big news for the Linux community, the question remains, what if any impact will this latest release have on mainstream computer users?…
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Check the Mirror for Channel Success
The thing that distinguishes successful solution providers from the many that fail has much more to do with intangibles than any special knowledge about products or vendor channel programs. That’s basically the core conclusion of a new book called "Mastering a Culture of Accountability," by Chris Winter and Larry Kesslin. If you’re not familiar with…