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Cisco Channel Goes Vertical
Cisco Systems on Oct. 16 took the wraps off Vertical Select, which gives VARs a crash course in marketing and sales tactics to tackle vertical markets. Vertical Select, which also includes tools to help VARs in their efforts, is essentially a booster program for partners who are interested but not yet involved in vertical market…
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Cisco Lets VARs Approve Leasing Options for Customers
Cisco Systems Capital, the financial subsidiary of Cisco Systems, announced Oct.16 that it would begin allowing VARs to approve up to $50,000 in leasing credit for their customers. The new leasing program is aimed at SMBs (small and midsize businesses) and gives cash-conscious companies the opportunity buy Cisco products with fewer upfront costs, said Maryann…
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Survey: Hacker Attacks Scariest Threat of All
In a survey of IT security professionals attending the RSA Conference, one-third of respondents cited uncovering identity management as their biggest organizational concern. While 29 percent of respondents ranked e-mail viruses as their most significant threat, 68 percent listed Web viruses, suggesting that Web viruses pose more of a threat than e-mail-born ones. Paul Davis,…
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IBM Births New Server Type
IBM on Oct. 16 announced a new species of server: the IBM Information Server. The new server is all about grafting formally siloed information-handling products such as data cleansing and profiling platforms into one product with a common interface. IBM unveiled the Information Server at its first Information on Demand Global Conference in Anaheim, Calif.…
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Calence to Acquire Global Data Systems, Texas Presence
Calence, which is fast becoming one of the nation’s largest service providers, agreed on Oct. 16 to acquire the Texas operations of Global Data Systems, a nationwide VAR. The acquisition increases Calence’s presence in the education and public sector spaces and several key Texas markets—Austin, Corpus Christi, Dallas, Houston, Laredo, McAllen, San Angelo and San…
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Oracle Updates Enterprise Manager 10g’s ALM
Oracle announced Oct. 16 that it’s tweaking Enterprise Manager 10g’s application lifecycle management so as to allow IT professionals to monitor the entire database and pinpoint specific changes in the database environment, approve changes, and take “snapshots” of the environment. Oracle’s achieving this by deploying service-level management, application performance management, configuration management and change automation,…
