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  • Glowpoint Completes Acquistion of Avaya Managed Video Services

    Cloud managed video services provider Glowpoint announced that it completed its acquisition of pieces of Avaya’s Managed Service for Video platform. Glowpoint issued about 770,000 shares of common stock to Avaya for its assets, including telepresence and video conferencing endpoints and network infrastructure used to deliver cloud managed video services to enterprise customers, the company…

  • F5 Networks Debuts ARX File Virtualization Appliances

    Application delivery networking specialist F5 Networks announced the release of a hardware platforms for F5 ARX file virtualization solutions. With the introduction of the ARX1500 and ARX2500 appliances, the ARX product line expands to provide small to medium-size businesses with data management capabilities. For medium-sized storage environments, the ARX2500 platform includes support for 10 Gigabit…

  • HP Channel Chief DiFranco Moves to PSG

    HP’s channel chief Stephen DiFranco has been appointed to senior vice president and general manager for the Americas region of HP’s Personal Systems Group (PSG).  DiFranco will continue to lead the solution provider program until a replacement is named, HP said. HP has commenced a search for a new channel chief. DiFranco’s move to PSG…

  • Microsoft Teases Windows 8 Features, Pushes Win 7

    Even as it teased the features of Windows 8 to a stadium full of its channel partners assembled in Los Angeles’ Staples Center, Microsoft was still hawking Windows 7, pointing out that more than 200 million PCs are still running Windows XP, an operating system launched in 2001. Microsoft’s Tami Reller, corporate vice president and…

  • Google+ to Target Business Customers

    Google may have found a way to challenge not only Facebook, but also LinkedIn: Its new Google+ social network will apparently evolve in a way that allows businesses to build profiles and interact with the public.  We have a great team of engineers actively building an amazing Google+ experience for businesses, and we will have…

  • Facebook Skype, Google Video Chat Compared

    When Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg launched video chat powered by Skype July 6, pundits immediately took to shaming and flaming the company for launching the service one week after Google (NASDAQ:GOOG) launched its own social network to beta with its own video application. Facebook, the world’s leading social network with 750 million users, took more…

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