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Avaya Moves Full-Steam Ahead with Nortel Channel
Since completing its acquisition of Nortel Enterprise Solutions in December, Avaya has been busy migrating both its own and Nortel’s channel partners to the new Avaya Connect partner program. According to Avaya’s channel lead, the company has already surpassed its goal of signing up Nortel partners for the program. When the acquisition was finished, Avaya’s…
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CA to Cut 1,000 Jobs as Focus Turns to Cloud
An internal CA memo announces the elimination of 1,000 jobs. The infrastructure-focused software company has been busy restructuring its business strategy around cloud products and has been in rapid-acquisition mode, having purchased three companies in 2010 already. Enterprise software company CA announced it will be slashing 1,000 jobs from its workforce at the end of…
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Growing Business Intelligence Demand Means VAR Opportunity
I’ve been on a gadget spree in the last few weeks, wrapping up two “home” projects as I write this. First, I’m redoing my home network, retiring the servers I had in my home and replacing them with a new Windows Home Server and a SheevaPlug, which will handle all the tasks that a virtualization…
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Oracle Turns Attention to Project and Document Management
Oracle unveiled Oracle Primavera Portfolio Management 8, designed to assist organizations in project portfolio management from conception through execution, on April 6. This is just one of several Oracle product announcements over the past few weeks, as the company seems to be stepping up its effort to provide systems solutions to the enterprise. >>Click here…
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New President Takes the Reins at Tigerpaw
Though he’s been filling the role behind the scenes for the past five months, James Foxall today officially became president of Tigerpaw, the software vendor that makes CRM, PSA and other business productivity tools for managed services providers and other channel organizations. Foxall takes the reins at a time of major activity for Tigerpaw. In…
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VelociRaptor Hard Disk Drives from WD Offer Doubled Capacity
Western Digital, which wants to be known as WD, on April 5 started shipping the fastest, most capacious 2.5-inch SATA hard disk drive it has ever made. At 600GB, the VelociRaptor VR200M doubles the capacity of the original version, which was released in 2008. A 450GB model is also available. >> Click here to read…