Recent Articles
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Don’t Expect Juniper to Invoke Rivals at Confab
The last week of April was busy for the channel. Cisco Systems was holding its annual partner conference in San Francisco. Simultaneously, Hewlett-Packard was in Las Vegas with its loyal followers. And each was talking up a storm about how they were going to take the fight to their rival, and that started a buzz…
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Juniper Unveils ‘The New Network’
On the back lawn of the Arizona Biltmore, Juniper Networks erected a string of letters that signifies the theme for the company and the Americas Partner Conference: “The New Network.” CEO Kevin Johnson took the stage this morning to open the conference by asserting the networking and security company’s commitment to re-create the networking paradigm…
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Solar, Wind and Cow Manure Energy Power Tomorrow’s Data Centers
Solar, Wind and Cow Manure Energy Power Tomorrow’s Data Centers As IT organizations move infrastructure to the cloud and data centers suck up more power, the search is on for affordable sources of renewable energy. And with a giant BP oil spill spreading in the Gulf of Mexico, the pressure may be on as never…
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IBM Acquires Sterling Commerce from ATT
NEW YORK/BOSTON, May 24 (Reuters) – IBM (NYSE:IBM) plans to buy Sterling Commerce from AT&T Inc (T.N) for about $1.4 billion in cash, extending the technology behemoth’s portfolio of business software. The move comes amid a flurry of software acquisitions by International Business Machines Corp, Oracle Corp (NASDAQ:ORCL) and SAP AG (DE:SAPG), as they look…
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Acquisitions, Channel Fuel Dell Growth
Like its larger rivals, Dell has been active on the acquisition front, picking up a variety of companies to bolster its offerings, including services (Perot Systems), managed services (SilverBack Technologies), storage (EqualLogic) and earlier this year, system management appliances (Kace). The latter two had their roots in the channel, which is historically uncharted territory for…
