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SAP, Sybase Plan Comprehensive Enterprise Platform
SAP, with its Sybase mobility acquisition in tow, has unveiled some new plans to load up the channel’s arsenal to make it easier and quicker to extend enterprise mobile applications out of SAP. SAP plans to enhance Sybase’s mature mobile middleware offerings with the addition of SAP business analytics and enterprise information management products over…
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Intacct, Clarizen Partnership Deal Spurs Project Accounting for Cloud
Intacct has signed a partnership deal with Clarizen (www.clarizen.com) so that between the two companies, they can provide all the cloud applications professional services and project-based businesses need to do work management and financial management. The two cloud computing applications providers will integrate their applications to work together more closely. According to Laurie Wood, senior…
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Infrastructure-as-a-Service Adoption Growing, Report Finds
Software as a service’s younger sibling just got an ego boost, according to a report from IT research firm Yankee Group. A company survey found 24 percent of large enterprises with cloud experience are already using IAAS (infrastructure as a service), and an additional 37 percent expect to adopt IAAS during the next 24 months.…
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HP Counters Dell Offer for Data Storage Vendor 3PAR
NEW YORK Aug 23 (Reuters) – Hewlett-Packard Co (NYSE:HPQ) launched a $1.6 billion bid for data storage company 3PAR Inc (NYSE:PAR) on Monday, topping an offer by technology rival Dell Inc (NASDAQ:DELL). HP bid $24 a share for 3PAR, about 33 percent more than Dell planned to pay in a deal announced a week ago.…
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Intel, McAfee Deal: What Channel Partners Are Saying
As Wall Street analysts and security insiders have been abuzz over the implications of the mega-acquisition by Intel of McAfee for $7.7 billion, many within the security vendor’s channel have hardly broken a sweat over the deal. Collectively, many partners see the deal as a non-issue for their short- to medium-term sales strategy as Intel…