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Northwest Computer Support Makes Aggressive Managed Services Moves
Northwest Computer Support is aggressively moving into the managed services space by expanding its current offerings and hiring former Alvaka Networks Chief Technology Officer Rex Frank to take charge of the initiative. NWCS currently offers about 15 customer services on a fixed-fee maintenance plan but plans to add services and expand that number to between…
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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…