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HP Buying Opsware for $1.6B
Hewlett-Packard is buying Opsware, a software vendor best known as a provider of data center automation products, for $1.6 billion, the two companies announced July 23. The purchase of Opsware and its line of products will allow HP to integrate that technology into its own burgeoning line of BTO (business technology optimization) software. Combining the…
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ThinkPad X61s is powerful but lightweight platform
Lenovo’s ThinkPad X61s is a small but powerful mobile computing platform. The X-series ThinkPads are Lenovo’s smallest notebooks—8 ¼ inches by 11 inches by 1 inch with the standard four-cell battery. (A system with the eight-cell, high-capacity battery adds another inch at the back.) At just under 3 pounds with the standard four-cell battery), a…
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Security Vendor Rolls Out Channel Program
Appliance-based security vendor Mi5 is rolling out a two-tier channel program for its 100 percent channel-based sales. The three-year old company began shipping products just a year ago to capture the market for customers looking for both URL filtering and Web malware protection, according to Doug Camplejohn, CEO of the company which is based in…
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Do IT Smarter Targets MSP Marketing
Looking to help its MSPs build their businesses, Do IT Smarter, a reseller of outsourced managed services for small-business VARs, is now offering its partners a marketing program that costs as little as $29.95 a month. The San Diego-based company, once a managed services provider itself, said VARs transitioning into being MSPs often find it…
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Former SilverBack Executive Hails Dell Acquisition
A former SilverBack Technologies top executive said the company’s planned acquisition by Dell bodes well for the channel. It wouldn’t make sense for Dell to acquire SilverBack only to turn around and chuck the network of channel partners it has worked so hard to build, he said. Jim Hare, who was worldwide vice president of…
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Has Dell Unleashed an 800-Pound Gorilla?
Dell’s acquisition of managed services technology provider SilverBack Technologies gives the company another major piece of infrastructure to build its business services offerings. It could also become a major part of Dell’s promised channel strategy—or put the company even more in conflict with the channel. SilverBack’s technology allows service providers to remotely monitor, manage and…
