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Avnet, Sun Announce Storage Partnership
Distributor Avnet is entering a new agreement with Sun Microsystems to sell the Santa Clara, Calif.-based vendor’s entire portfolio. The new agreement comes as Sun looks to continue growing its storage business in the wake of its purchase of StorageTek (Storage Technology) for $4.1 billion in 2005. Avnet had a long-standing relationship with StorageTek and…
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Microsoft Research Automates Hunt for Search Engine Spam
Researchers at Microsoft are working on an ambitious new project to hunt down and neutralize large-scale search engine spammers. The Redmond, Wash., software giant’s Cybersecurity and Systems Management Research Group has taken the wraps off Strider Search Defender, an experimental project that automates the discovery of search spammers through non-content analysis. The project integrates technology…
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Chipping Away at the Microsoft Empire
As Microsoft prepared a marketing onslaught for its annual partner conference this week, a pair of little-known Linux vendors were trying to capitalize on frustrations over the software giant’s technology. The vendors, Xandros and Collax, are targeting their Linux wares at the SMB (small and midsize business) market. Their strategy is to reach those companies…
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Microsoft Makes Virtual PC Free
Microsoft said this week that it will make its Virtual PC software free — not just the older Virtual PC 2004 version, but its upcoming software for Vista, too. Users can download the Virtual PC 2004 Service Pack 1 software from the Microsoft web site. The software allows users to run multiple instances of operating…
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Tech Data to Help VARs Increase Their Cisco Service Business
Distributor Tech Data has trained more than 100 sales representatives in a Cisco Systems. incentive program to encourage solution providers to attach services to product sales. The program, called the ARM (Attach, Renew, Multiyear) Service Incentive Program, is designed to educate resellers on how to sell, renew, offer upgrades to and help lock in service…
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Microsoft Challenges Partners to Take Market Share from Rivals
Microsoft will not allow Google to win in the enterprise search business, Chief Operating Officer Kevin Turner told partners July 13 at the software vendor’s Worldwide Partner Conference. “That’s our space, that’s our house,” he said, rallying the troops responsible for 96 percent of the company’s revenue. “They’re not going to take food off our…
