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IBM Takes Smarter Buildings To A New Level
LAS VEGAS: IBM is announcing a new era of smarter buildings, featuring technology — and associated services — that can save organizations substantial amounts of money, and make the world a little better ecologically. More significantly, IBM’s offerings are not just green vaporware or the domain of large organizations, said Al Zollar, general manager for…
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Alert Logic Restructures for Better Channel Support
In a move to drive sales through the channel and build up a more consistent recurring revenue model for its partners, the log management and IDS company Alert Logic unveiled a joint announcement yesterday that it would be introducing a new program and a new set of cloud-based log management tools designed to be sold…
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HP Poised to Tap Lenovo’s DiFranco as New Channel Chief
Longtime channel veteran Stephen DiFranco has resigned from Lenovo and is expected to be named channel chief for Hewlett-Packard imminently, filling the vacancy left by Adrian Jones last November, according to sources in the HP partner community. HP officials refused comment on the DiFranco hiring, but Lenovo did confirm the former vice president and general…
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IBM Unveils New Products, Services And Strategy
LAS VEGAS: Having set its sights on being a prime contractor, if not the architect, of the smarter planet, IBM has outlined an enhanced strategy for virtualization with integrated service management that focuses on four priorities: consolidation, management, automation and optimized delivery. The company also rolled out new ‘building blocks’ — software and services —…
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Small Business on Microsoft Hyper-V Virtualization: Free, Good Enough
Image via Wikipedia If you are a small business with under 10 servers, does it really make sense to jump into virtualization? For these organizations the benefits of virtualization may be less about server consolidation and more about portability, disaster recovery and centralized management. If your servers go down, is your business still operating? Or…
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IBM Woos Frustrated Sun Channel Partners from Oracle
LAS VEGAS—IBM has been chasing after disaffected Sun channel partners for several years, but it wasn’t until Oracle agreed to buy the beleaguered company last April and the European Union held up the pending deal for nine months that Big Blue cranked up the pressure. This week’s IBM Pulse 2010 conference is primarily targeted at…
