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Microsoft Channel Chief Talks Billing, Competencies
Microsoft’s direct billing of Microsoft Office 365 is designed to set the pricing for the cloud-based productivity suite without caving in to any pricing pressures, Microsoft Channel Chief Jon Roskill told Channel Insider. And the order to do it that way comes directly from CEO Steve Ballmer. Microsoft is billing customers directly and has designated…
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Smartphones Meet Remote Control in the Cloud: The Channel Opportunity
At a recent family function, I noticed one of my cousins at one point fiddling with his smartphone, looking as if he was about to devour the display. Ever the helpful relative, I wasted no time schooling him on the etiquette of ignoring the people around you to mess with your smartphone. We both laughed…
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Cisco Upgrades Catalyst Series of Switches
Cisco Systems is updating the Catalyst 6500 Series of switches with new products and new features designed to improve performance in an market that is growing ever more competitive. This update is not just limited to a hardware refresh, but it includes more than 200 software updates. As the “workhorse family” of switches that stretches…
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VMware Launches vSphere 5
SAN FRANCISCO – A significant number of IT professionals already know this and aren’t going to like hearing it, but VMware CEO Paul Maritz believes that "most people just want IT infrastructure to go away." So VMware is here to help enterprises do this by selling them vSphere 5, a new cloud computing infrastructure suite…
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Cisco’s Chambers Keynote Foreshadows Restructuring
While Cisco Systems continues to innovate, it has become too complex and needs to become more streamlined and easier to work with, CEO John Chambers said in his opening keynote at the Cisco Live show in Las Vegas. As a result, Chambers acknowledged the company will undergo a restructuring although he didn t disclose any…
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Microsoft’s Windows Phone Takes Center Stage
Microsoft executives used the second day of the company s Worldwide Partner Conference in Los Angeles to offer a few glimpses of upcoming Windows Phones. Acer, Fujitsu, ZTE, and Samsung had manufactured the devices on display for part of the July 12 keynote speeches, all of them embracing a thin-and-light design style that will apparently…