Recent Articles
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APC’s McKernan: Power to the Data Center
Mike Vizard:There’s been a tremendous amount of activity in the data center in the last year or two where just about everybody and his brother is in the process of moving to some level of blade center architecture or at least thinking about; what kind of opportunity does that create in the channel around data…
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Arsenal to Launch Channel Program
On-demand data protection services provider Arsenal Digital Solutions plans to launch a full-fledged solution provider channel program the week of July 23, following the upgrade July 16 of its online server backup and recovery service to support virtualization. The three-tiered program is aimed at infiltrating the midsize business market—companies with 100 to 2,500 users, said…
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Linspire Preps Impending Software Updates
It’s a bit later than Linspire had planned, but the company’s CEO Kevin Carmony told DesktopLinux that the new commercial version of its Linux distribution, Linspire 6.0, along with the free version, Freespire 2.0, and its revised click-and-run software update system, should be out before August. “The plan [is] to have all three out by…
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Dell’s SilverBack Purchase a Cause for Channel Concern
It was only a matter of time. Sooner or later one of the managed services platform vendors that have gotten so much attention in the last couple of years was going to be acquired. Now it’s happening. SilverBack Technologies, based in Billerica, Mass., is the winner of this particular race. The surprise in this development…
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Dell to Acquire MSP Platform Provider SilverBack
Dell plans to acquire SilverBack Technologies, one of a handful of leading managed service platform companies offering IT monitoring and management services through resellers, the company announced today. The move comes two months after the Round Rock, Texas-based PC maker, which built its business on direct sales of PCs to customers, announced that it would…
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Bixler: AMD Widens the Channel
Vizard:One of the things that dominates everybody’s mindset at the channel, for better or worse, especially around systems, is pricing. You know, almost everyday you read about the price war that goes on between AMD and Intel, but I don’t think anybody ever steps back to say, “What does this mean exactly from a market…
