Recent Articles
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MessageOne Snapped Up by Dell
Dell is adding to its growing enterprise services portfolio and announced Feb. 12 that the company is acquiring MessageOne, which provides managed services for e-mail management, archiving and business continuity. Dell announced that it would acquire MessageOne, which is based in Austin, Texas, for $155 million in cash. The company is owned by Adam Dell,…
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Sun Forms Joint Venture with Channel Partner
Sun Microsystems will use its channel partner network to create virtual subsidiaries in emerging markets around the world with the first one in Vietnam. The program, called Sun Equity Partner, or SEP, lets Sun gain a greater presence in particular geographies by creating a joint venture company between Sun and one of its partners in…
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Microsoft Entices SMBs with Freebies
Microsoft is giving away tools to entice SMBs to adopt its Office Live Small Business suite of Web-based software and services. However, the move could see the software giant provide tools and services for free that its VARs have previously charged for. Microsoft announced that it has combined its previous three-tier OLSB suite into one product…
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IBM Builds Storage Arrays from 1TB Drives
IBM has made its first storage product news since last October by announcing Feb. 12 a wide range of new software and hardware offerings for large enterprises and for small and midsize businesses. The key item here is that IBM is now using 1TB drives in its storage arrays, following similar moves by Network Appliance, EMC, Rackable…
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Worlds Collide at Channel Summit
At the Ziff Davis Enterprise Channel Summit in Dallas on Feb. 7, a great deal of interest was generated around two very topical subjects: green technology and managed services. For the most part, the discussions were cordial in nature, but some VARs did express some serious doubts about the motivation behind each of those technologies.…