Recent Articles
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SonicWall Partners Call for Channel Boost
SonicWall VARs are calling for newly appointed Vice President of Worldwide Sales Marvin Blough to reenergize the company’s efforts in North America. Blough served as vice president of sales in Europe, where the company’s channel business achieved record growth, SonicWall officials said, and before that was vice president of North American sales. Former Vice President…
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HP Takes Aim At NetApp
Hewlett-Packard said its StorageWorks EFS Clustered Gateway is ready to go head-to-head with Network Appliance in the high-end servers and NAS space, but some partners don’t believe the hype. In April 2007, HP finalized its acquisition of PolyServe, a provider of file system server and storage software, and that technology has now been rolled into…
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Sun Acquires MySQL for $1 Billion
NEW YORK (Reuters)—Sun Microsystems Inc said on Wednesday it will buy open source developer MySQL AB for about $1 billion, allowing it to expand into an estimated $15 billion database market. Sun also reported preliminary results for its fiscal second quarter, saying it expected higher revenue and profit compared with the year-earlier period. Sun said it…
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The Channel Exec Shuffle
There must be something in the air. As sure as New Year arrives every Jan. 1 and the groundhog looks for its shadow every Feb. 2, so do channel executives seem to move from job to job as vendors get ready to roll out the year’s channel enhancements. And 2008 is no exception. Here are…
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Intel: Server Will Double Channel Sales
Intel is pinning high hopes on its SMB server product launched today, hoping the product will help it double channel sales and expand its presence further into emerging markets. The Intel Modular Server building blocks integrate networking and storage capabilities in a low-cost product with a simple, Web-based management console, making the product a good…
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IBM Adds Ingram Micro for N Series Storage
VARs have welcomed the move by IBM to add Ingram Micro to its growing roster of distributors for its N series storage portfolio, as predicted by The Channel Insider. IBM announced Jan. 3 that it had expanded its distribution lineup to include Tech Data alongside incumbents Avnet and Arrow Electronics. Ingram Micro has now been…
