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EMC Strives to Make Channel Easier to Swim
ORLANDO, Fla.—Information management behemoth EMC is seeing 20 percent growth in the top segment of the SMB market and is relying heavily on its channel partners to keep that pace of growth alive. This is one of the keys to the company’s future prospects, as global and enterprise business is growing at a more pedestrian…
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SAS Channel Program Takes on World
Business and analytic software maker SAS is expanding its year-old channel program geographically and is also enhancing the offerings partners in the Americas can offer to customers. SAS said it will expand its channel program globally. Previously focused just on partners in the Americas, the new program will first expand to Canada, the U.K., France,…
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Juniper Adds More Partner Goodies
Juniper Networks is offering a slate of new channel partner programs and a new suite of solution enablement tools that the company said are designed to make life easier and more profitable for partners. The networking company made the announcements during its J-Partner Summit in Las Vegas this week. The five new programs include an…
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A New Dell Direction: Is It the Right Course?
Tom Miller has been keeping a close eye on Dell for years. The senior director of IT for FoxHollow Technologies, a cardiovascular health products company in Redwood City, Calif., Miller has been a longtime Dell customer. His company of about 600 employees is standardized on Dell servers and PCs. And Miller has watched as Dell…
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EMC Plans On-Demand Storage Offering
ORLANDO, Fla.—According to CEO Joe Tucci, EMC plans to develop a storage service offering to penetrate the SMB market, where it has “relatively little share today.” Speaking in an interview with eWEEK editors here at the EMC World partner conference, Tucci would not reveal details of the planned offering, but said, “We’re way beyond planning.…
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SEC to Take Action Against Ingram Micro
Ingram Micro acknowledged May 21 that the Securities and Exchange Commission had issued it a “Wells Notice,” alerting the distributor that the SEC intends to take action against it for improper record-keeping related to Ingram Micro’s business with security vendor McAfee. The notice indicates that SEC staff intend to recommend that the SEC institute an…
