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  • Comstor to Offer Cisco TelePresence Solutions

    Distributor Westcon Group’s dedicated Cisco division Comstor will now be offering Cisco’s full TelePresence portfolio to solution providers looking to incorporate more video and communications solutions into their product offerings. Included are products Cisco recently acquired with the acquisition of Tandberg, and the new offerings will help solution providers develop new revenue streams, Bill Corbin,…

  • RIM PlayBook Tablet Set to Arrive in April

    (Reuters) – Research In Motion’s long-awaited tablet, the BlackBerry PlayBook, will go on sale in the United States and Canada on April 19 at a base price of $499. RIM said on Tuesday it plans to sell the PlayBook through retailers and wireless carriers including Best Buy, AT&T, Verizon, Radioshack, Sears Canada and Wal-Mart. The…

  • Cisco Pushes Video, Web Conferencing for Partners

    Cisco is working to make video and unified communications a more attractive proposition for small businesses, predicting that in just a few years 90 percent of network load will come from video applications. That means a big opportunity for partners, who now have the option to resell technology such as WebEx, rather than just refer…

  • DataCore Adds NAS Performance Acceleration, File Sharing Support to SANsymphony-V Storage Platform

    Storage virtualization software specialist DataCore Software announced it has integrated Network Attached Storage (NAS) performance acceleration and high-availability file sharing support for its SANsymphony-V platform, making it possible to employ the NAS services built into the Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 platform in those environments. The integrated combination is designed to speed up performance and…

  • RSA SecurID Breach: Is it a Brand Breaker?

    Just a few days following the announcement by EMC security subsidiary RSA that its most popular authentication token product was the target of a very focused security breach, the obvious question on many minds is how much brand damage the incident will inflict on RSA and its partners. The short answer from many security pundits…

  • Embracing Social Media as a Smart Business Tool

    Sometimes Facebook, as well as other social networking media, is annoying. Narcissism pours out of the screen, and it’s all I can do to stop myself from de-friending people who seem bent on sharing every last mundane detail of their lives with the world. My frustrations with the medium aside, evidence suggests social media is…

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