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Cisco Shakes Up Partner Training, Specializations
Cisco Systems is introducing new architecture specializations that will have a direct impact on the requirements needed to attain and maintain Gold and Silver partner level designations. The new specializations will also affect Premier partners but to a lesser extent. Going forward, Gold and Silver partner levels within the Cisco Channel Partner Program will be…
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Ingram Micro Partners on Cloud with IBM, Others
Technology distribution giant Ingram Micro (NYSE:IM) will partner with IBM (NYSE:IBM), Intermedia and Fujitsu to enable partners to build out their own cloud offerings to customers, the companies announced at Ingram Micro’s VTN Spring Invitational in Chicago April 11. Ingram Micro made the partnership announcements amid a storm of cloud announcements in the technology industry,…
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Schneider Electric Buys Data Center Services Firm Lee Technologies
International energy management giant Schneider Electric, which supplies power-control products and services for thousands of IT systems, on April 5 acquired Lee Technologies, a services bureau for North American data centers. Financial details of the transaction were not disclosed. Lee Technologies, based in Fairfax, Va., specializes in 24/7-type data center services, such as remote monitoring…
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Dell Makes $1 Billion Investment in Cloud, Virtualization Infrastructure
Dell is investing $1 billion in its current fiscal year in new data centers, solution facilities and technologies designed to broaden its capabilities in such areas as cloud computing, virtualization and converged infrastructure. Dell’s strategy, announced April 7, includes building 10 new data centers over the next two years—which will be spread out around the…
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Facebook Launches Open Compute Project
Facebook April 7 launched its Open Compute Project, an unprecedented play to open source the specifications it employs for its hardware and data center to efficiently power a social network comprising 600 million-plus people. For the Open Compute Project, Facebook is publishing specs and mechanical designs used to construct its motherboards, power supply, server chassis,…