Recent Articles
-
Dedupe Presents a Growing Channel Opportunity
According to the latest numbers, data deduplication is one of the hottest technology segments, and it’s only going to get hotter, according to a new study from TheInfoPro that found that the majority of large organizations believe deduplication will have the greatest impact on their storage architectures. Providing further evidence of dedupe’s momentum, EMC, a…
-
IBM Takes Wraps Off Power7 Systems
IBM is rolling out the first of its Power7 systems as it looks to grab more market share in the $14 billion Unix server space from HP and Sun. The move comes as HP and Intel prepare to release the next-generation Itanium processor and Oracle looks to bring Sun into the fold. IBM is rolling…
-
WhiteHat Security Grows Channel Sales by 260 Percent
WhiteHat’s channel is white hot. The security software company announced it grew its indirect business by over 250 percent in 2009. The company also recently hired an experienced team of channel executives, headed by Lucent veteran Bob Cariddi, to spearhead its sales and partner efforts. WhiteHat’s web site risk management service, based on its Sentinel…
-
Beware Technology for Technology’s Sake
Paul Mah wrote a blog called “The State of Virtualization in SMBs," which is something of a response to some interviews I did recently. (What a cyclical world blogs have made this!) Paul also wrote a piece about Virtualization, “Not Worth it for Most SMBs.” I’m not entirely sure what the thesis of Paul’s piece…
-
SAP’s CEO Resigns amid Online Software Delays
It appears that the game-changing shift toward software as a service (SaaS) and cloud computing business models claimed a high-profile victim on Monday. SAP’s CEO Leo Apothekar resigned from his post, weighed down by the enterprise software company’s annual financial loss and the failure to deliver an online version of its business software ahead of…