Recent Articles
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New Mobile App Development Opportunities Emerge for Channel
While mobile computing has been on the rise for several years now, it’s only recently that solution providers in the channel have seen the emergence of mobile application development platforms (MADPs) that they could actually build a practice around. On one hand, traditional enterprise IT stalwarts such as Oracle, IBM and SAP have been working…
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Channel News Briefs: Week of July 28
Continuity Software Unveils New Channel Partner Program Continuity Software, a provider of service availability risk management offerings, has launched its global AvailabilityGuard Channel Partner Program, which is open to new channel partners around the globe, enabling them to offer the AvailabilityGuard software suite to customers in their respective markets. This offering provides high availability (HA) and disaster…
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Extreme Networks Intros Unified Channel Program
Following Extreme Network’s acquisition of Enterasys last year, the merger of the two organizations’ channel programs, had been a work in progress. Now, Extreme Networks is rolling out a revamped channel program that, not only combines much of the best of what both companies previously offered, but also adds a couple of new twists. At…
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Channel News Briefs: Week of July 20
Tech Data Adds McAfee SaaS Offerings to Solutions Store McAfee will provide its software-as-a-service (SaaS) security offerings to Tech Data’s channel of solution providers through the company’s TDCloud business unit. The cloud-based security offerings, including McAfee’s SaaS Email Protection, SaaS Email Archiving and SaaS Web Protection, will be available through Tech Data’s Solutions Store. In addition,…
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IBM-Apple Alliance Provides Big Mobile Boost to Channel
From a channel perspective, mobile computing has always been a challenge because the acquiring of the devices and services is most often direct. But in the wake of the far-reaching mobile alliance this week between IBM and Apple, the mobile playing field for the channel just became a little more level. Under the terms of…
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HP Spurs Windows Server 2003 Migrations
To a provide a catalyst for channel partners looking to help customers migrate from Microsoft Windows Server 2003 to a more modern instance of Windows Server, Hewlett-Packard, in conjunction with Microsoft, announced a new channel program designed to help partners take advantage of an estimated $10 billion market opportunity. With support from Microsoft for Windows…
