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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.…
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Salesforce’s Force.com Gives ISVs Entry to Cloud
About two years ago, Salesforce.com introduced its Force.com offering, through which the software-as-a-service giant invited developers to create cloud-based applications that would run on Salesforce.com’s own infrastructure. I must say that when I first heard about Salesforce.com’s efforts to allow development for the cloud through its own Force.com site, I was a bit skeptical about…
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New Diskeeper Tool Saves Time, Money for VARs
In the life of a Windows machine, nothing is certain but malware sweeps and disk defragmentation. Both chores are deployed regularly in hopes of holding off bit rot, and each has a knack for sucking up resources and generally getting in everyone’s way-despite ongoing vendor efforts to tuck these tasks into the background. I suspect…