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Cisco Tells HP: Hit the Road, Jack
Cisco Systems and Hewlett-Packard made it official Feb. 18: They are getting a divorce, thanks to irreconcilable differences in IT direction. The final decree will come April 30, when both the channel partner and system integrator agreements between the two IT giants end. It boils down to the fact that HP is focused on servers,…
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NetApp’s Channel Doubles Entry-Level Sales in Quarter
Most leading IT vendors are reporting good to great financial results this quarter, but in storage, NetApp (NASDAQ:NTAP) is really raising the bar, turning in a stellar performance, spearheaded by its channel. CFO Steve Gomo said NetApp "significantly outpaced both the market and the competition" and is forecasting Q4 sequential growth at about 6 percent…
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Cisco’s Biggest Partners Win in Cisco, HP Rift
As Cisco breaks off its longstanding partner relationship with HP, the big winners are likely to be Cisco’s largest channel partners who may find themselves taking over implementing technologies that HP used to resell and implement on Cisco’s behalf. Cisco to HP: Hit the Road, Jack Cisco’s Channel Chief Keith Goodwin this week announced in…
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Clouds Reign On IBM Channel Parade
Looking to match the hottest item on channel partners’ agendas this year — cloud computing IBM will provide a day of cloud content to 1,000 Tivoli partners Feb. 21 at the kickoff to its Pulse 2010 conference in Las Vegas. It will be the first in a year-long series of cloud computing camps that show…
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Ingram Micro Quarter Showcases Reseller Recovery
IT solution providers and VARs fared better during this recession than the one that followed the dot-com/Y2K boom and bust, Ingram Micro (NYSE:IM) CEO Greg Spierkel has told Channel Insider. He estimates that 20 to 30 percent of the VAR community went into bankruptcy due to the effects of the recession in 2002 and 2003.…