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  • News and Trends

    AMD Expands Fusion Partner Program

    For the first time, AMD’s channel program will have one uniform approach to supporting the broad array of partners that use the full breadth of the chips company’s products. This morning, AMD unveiled the commercial and software partner tracks to its Fusion program, extending the same training, enablement and tools that it current provides resellers,…

    Lawrence Walsh

  • News and Trends

    AMD Expands Fusion Partner Program II

    For the first time, AMD’s channel program will have one uniform approach to supporting the broad array of partners that use the full breadth of the chips company’s products. This morning, AMD unveiled the commercial and software partner tracks to its Fusion program, extending the same training, enablement and tools that it current provides resellers,…

    Lawrence Walsh

  • Cloud Computing

    NetSuite Dangles the Ultimate Carrot: Cash

    In an effort to woo more solution providers into selling its cloud-based business software, SaaS pioneer NetSuite is making an offer it hopes the channel can’t refuse: Cold, hard cash. For a limited time, NetSuite will pay partners 100 percent margin on the first year’s sales value of a new customer subscription, with 10 percent…

    Carolyn April

  • News and Trends

    DiFranco Officially In as HP Channel Chief

    HP this week officially confirmed that channel veteran and former Lenovo executive Stephen DiFranco has been hired to run the company’s channel operations in the Americas. DiFranco will replace Adrian Jones as vice president and general manager of HP Solutions Partners Organization, Americas, after nearly a five-month search process. HP will be making a public…

    Carolyn April

  • Cloud Computing

    Cloud Security Reports Missing Critical Elements

     Everyone wants to talk about “The Cloud,” a term that has become as amorphous as the concept of the ether once was for the Internet. There are more than two dozen definitions for what constitutes “the cloud,” which is causing great confusion about the correct utilization. Consequently, how end users properly secure and maintain integrity…

    Lawrence Walsh

  • News and Trends

    Cisco Facing Stronger Competitive Alliances

    Yesterday morning’s news about a new alliance between Juniper Networks and Websense couldn’t have been welcomed to the folks over at Cisco Systems. It’s just the latest in a series of alliances designed to tighten the competitive noose against an increasingly isolationistic Cisco. First, the news. Websense, a leader in Web and content security, announced…

    Lawrence Walsh

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