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Cisco Jumps on Compliance Bandwagon
Cisco Systems on July 31 let the next shoe drop in its bid to raise its stature as a management software provider to its networking customers when it launched its Proactive Automation of Change Execution suite. The suite, made up of both products and services, is aimed at helping the network operations team implement a…
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Do-It-Yourself Managed Services From Kaseya
Kaseya is taking the Home Depot approach to managed services for businesses that prefer to keep systems monitoring and management in-house. The San Francisco-based managed services platform vendor this week launches a do-it-yourself program to fulfill a need with customers that prefer not to rely on an IT services company for monitoring services. Kaseya’s channel…
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Sage Extends 100/100 Another Year
Sage Software has extended for another year its 100/100 program in an effort to add 100 new salespeople to its channel. The program, providing $11,000 to 100 selected partners to find, hire, train and support a new member of its sales force, kicks off its third year Sept. 1, Taylor Macdonald, Sage’s executive vice president…
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Oracle ‘Losing Patience’ with XenSource, VMware
Oracle is fast losing its patience with both XenSource and VMware over their reluctance to work together to help develop a single interface that will integrate a variety of virtualization solutions in the Linux kernel. “We certainly believe in one simple universal way to integrate a variety of virtualization solutions, and that is the way…
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Big IT Players Aim to Simplify Data Center with XML
Ten major IT vendors including IBM, Microsoft, Intel and Hewlett-Packard on July 31 launched a standards initiative to create a common method using XML for describing network elements, servers, applications and other IT resources. The group, which also includes BEA Systems, BMC Software, Cisco Systems, Dell, EMC and Sun Microsystems, published a draft specification for…
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Avnet Partners with Citrix
Avnet Partner Solutions this week inked a deal with Citrix Systems Inc. to bundle the software company’s enterprise solutions with IBM Corp. and Hewlett-Packard Co. hardware. The partnership will give VARs and integrators that do business with the Tempe, Ariz.-based distributor a greater chance to expand their enterprise solutions portfolios, said company executives. “It’s a…
