Recent Articles
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Metro Group Expands Its RFID Trial
One of the more aggressive retail RFID backers in the world, Germany’s Metro Group, announced Nov. 9 that it is moving its pilot to the second phase and adding 70 more suppliers in China and Vietnam. The program, which Metro calls “Tag It, Easy,” is intended to better track products through Metro’s global supply chain.…
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HP Tacks On More Virtualization and Power Tools
Hewlett-Packard wants to make it easier to manage a data center full of blades. At the Oracle OpenWorld conference in San Francisco Nov. 12, HP executives will detail updates to its BladeSystem C-class infrastructure that include new ways to manage virtual environments across thousands of individual blades within a data center. HP, based in Palo…
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Dell Overhauling Its PowerEdge Portfolio
Dell now wants to simplify its PowerEdge server portfolio. At the Oracle OpenWorld conference in San Francisco on Nov. 12, Dell will show off several new PowerEdge servers, including new systems with new 45-nanometer processors from Intel, as well as updates to its OpenManage management software. As part of its “Simplify IT” initiative, which looks…
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Ingram Micro to Offer Cisco MDS 9000 Series
Ingram Micro announced on Nov.12 it will offer Cisco’s MDS 9000 Series of storage area networking products, including both fabric switches and directors, allowing partners to bulk up their storage solution line cards. Cisco’s network-enabled storage products enable Ingram Micro channel partners to build storage solutions that include virtualized networks and remote backup, as well…
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Intel Poised to Enter New Era with Penryn
Intel is ready to enter the 45-nanometer era. As Intel CEO Paul Otellini detailed in his opening remarks at the 2007 Developer Forum, the company will bring its Penryn family of 45-nanometer processors to market Nov. 12. The official release will bring 16 new microprocessors to the company’s portfolio, including 12 quad-core models, three dual-core…
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Vendors Get Low Grades When It Comes to Managed Services
When you consider the number of platitudes that channel executives tend to throw around about their support for the channel and the actual amount of vendor support there is for managed services today, you can’t help but wonder if most of the vendors really are that clueless or just can’t seem to get out of…
