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Polycom Completes Acquisition of HP Visual Collaboration Business Unit
Polycom, a provider of UC (unified communications) technology, has closed the deal for Hewlett-Packard’s visual collaboration business. The deal not only gives Polycom the HP visual collaboration business, but it also makes Polycom the exclusive partner to HP for telepresence and certain video UC solutions, including both resale and internal HP deployments. The two companies also agreed to…
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Nokia Squeezed By iPhone, Samsung Android Sales: ABI
An interesting thing happened in the smartphone market during the second quarter. Both Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL) and Samsung passed Nokia (NYSE:NOK) in worldwide smartphone sales, according to ABI Research. Apple shipped over 20.3 million iPhones to take the No. 1 position. Samsung followed with 19 million smartphones sold, including more than 5 million Google (NASDAQ:GOOG) Android-based…
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Zyrion Announces Storage Monitoring Module for EMC, NetApp
Zyrion, a provider of business service management and network performance monitoring solutions, announced the integration of its service container technology with its storage monitoring module for providing visibility into the impact of NAS and SAN devices on business services. The integrated solution is designed to reduce the time to resolution for service-related issues that are…
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Clouds Roll In, Vendors and VARs Adjust
What a difference a year makes. In last year’s CompTIA cloud survey – the first the organization ever did on cloud computing – 42 percent of channel companies said they were not involved in the cloud at all. Perhaps some of that came from a misunderstanding about what the cloud was. Or perhaps there was…
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Symantec Releases Enterprise Vault 10 Data Archiving Platform
Security, storage and systems management solutions specialist Symantec announced the availability of Enterprise Vault 10, the latest version of its email and content archiving software that now features Symantec’s data loss prevention (DLP) technology to analyze Microsoft Exchange email content and metadata to help determine the archiving and retention strategy for all messages. Email content…
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Four Channel Considerations for Microsoft Exchange Migrations
No matter what the platform, migration is almost always a bear for both customers and channel partners alike. As the channel continues to help customers migrate to Microsoft Exchange 2010 from older versions, many have found that Microsoft has done a decent job at providing seamless transition through its Migration Wizard tool–with one big caveat.…