Recent Articles
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IP Telephony Beyond VOIP
IP telephony is the wave of the telecom future for businesses, even if it seems to have stalled at VOIP. That’s according to VARs and analysts in the field, who said return on investment and a lack of understanding of the potential have left businesses stuck in a limbo between traditional telecom and full IP…
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Analyst Handicaps WiMAX Market, Picks Early Leaders
Forward Concepts, known for their expertise in the DSP space, has entered the WiMAX forecasting market with a report predicting that the technology will be worth $2 billion in 2009. Since the technology is still in its nascent state, the firm predicts that WiMAX chip revenues will total just $5.4 million this year. Still, Forward…
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Corente Pushes Managed Services Platform to Channel
As the popularity of managed services increases in the IT channel, a host of companies are rushing to develop innovative technology to facilitate delivery of the services. Among them is a young New York-based software developer that early in its existence caught the eye of IBM, of Armonk, N.Y., which has taken the company under…
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Microsoft’s Midsize Push Would Crown Solutions King
Microsoft Corp.’s advance into the midsize business market will bring a wealth of opportunity to VARs offering back-end service and solution tools, but licensing may be a dead end for others. That’s the word from Mika Yamamoto Kramer, an analyst at the Gartner Group following Microsoft’s midsize business developments. “Microsoft is taking money away from…
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VARs Watch Sun Program Carefully
Sun Microsystems’ channel partners said it was time for a makeover, and the company followed through. On Sept. 7 it began rolling out the first wave of a refurbished channel program, Partner Advantage, which Sun Microsystems Inc. executives say they expect will provide VARs and ISVs with a more customized relationship with the Santa Clara,…
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Channel Roundup: News from Ingram Micro, Intransa, LSI Logic, Emulex and Level 3
Ingram Micro plans to enhance partner program, Intransa adds European partners, LSI Logic partners with VeriSilicon, Emulex partners with ACAL Storage Networking, and Level 3 teams with 8×8 for VOIP solutions. Ingram Micro Plans Enhancements to Partner Program Ingram Micro Inc. of Santa Ana, Calif., has announced several new resources for its partners designed to…
