Recent Articles
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Virtualization Ramps in Enterprises
IT departments battered by the global recession last year are increasingly adopting a “virtualize first” mentality, according to research firm IDC. In a report April 28, IDC analysts said that 18.2 percent of all servers shipped in the fourth quarter of 2009 were virtualized, an increase from 15.2 percent in the same period in 2008.…
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Cisco and Tandberg Prepare to Dominate Business Video Market
For Cisco partners who sold the company’s Telepresence system, the acquisition and integration of Tandberg was welcome news. And with the deal completed just a few weeks ago, Cisco at its partner conference this week shed some light on the integration of partner programs going forward and announced a new discount for channel partners. Cisco…
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Oracle Shows Partners Some Love as HP and IBM Try to Woo Them Away
With so many others like IBM and HP reaching out helping hands to Oracle partners in the wake of its ongoing acquisition spree—five already this year, including Sun Microsystems—it seems only fair that Oracle respond with something more channel-friendly than the decision to take Sun’s top 4,000 customers direct. The Oracle PartnerNetwork (OPN) has announced…
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Cisco Fires Back at HP, Talks Business Transformation
Even as HP was turning up the heat on Cisco Systems at its partner summit in Las Vegas, held April 26 to 28, Cisco was also acknowledging a new era of intense competition between the two companies during its own partner conference in San Francisco, held the same week. "We know you had a choice…
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Salesforce.com, VMware Launch VMforce
Salesforce.com and VMware have announced a partnership to jointly deliver, sell and support a new enterprise Java cloud called VMforce. VMforce, which is to be formally launched at an April 27 event in San Francisco hosted by the CEOs of the two companies, will bring together the technologies, expertise and communities of the two leading…