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  • Polycom, BT Video Conferencing, UC Managed Service Won’t Cut Partners Out

    Polycom has signed a three-year agreement with BT Group that the companies say will accelerate the growth of unified conferencing systems—including video conferencing—within enterprises around the world by offering unified communications as a managed services offering. The announcement comes on the heels of a video conferencing mergers and acquisition market that’s been red hot lately.…

  • Applications On the Go

    Virtual desktops and applications are increasingly interesting to me.     Today I decided to move my company, Evolve, from Quickbooks 2007 to Quickbooks 2010. I’ve never been a huge Quickbooks fan, but QB 2010 has some dashboard features that actually make a big difference in the way I use the program, and put the information I…

  • Rackspace Expands SAAS Offerings to Include Online Storage

    As software as a service has risen to gain the attention of more business customers and solution providers, plenty of service providers have cropped up with offerings that solution providers could private-label to their customers. Hosting provider Rackspace has been no exception, rolling out a hosted e-mail service and then a hosted Microsoft Exchange service.…

  • Bull’s Eye Awards: Time Is Running Out

    Channel Insider has received dozens of nominations for the Bull’s Eye Awards, which will recognize excellence among vendors, solution providers, MSPs, distributors and channel services companies. Nominations are still open, but time is running out. Nominations must be received by Friday, Nov. 20, for consideration. The Bull’s Eye Awards will recognize individuals and companies in…

  • Quantum Offers Differentiated Tape Solution

    The storage market is changing with new demands and technologies, but at $3.5 billion (2008), tape is still a large segment and Quantum is releasing an entry-level tape automation library that is channel-friendly. HP owns the biggest slice of the tape drive market, with 55 percent of all factory-out tape drive shipments in 2008 (IDC),…

  • Tufin Expands from Security into Network Management

    Firewall management firm Tufin Technologies recently announced that it plans on expanding into the field of general network management through a clutch of 12 new plug-ins to expand its open extensible architecture. The Israel-based security company is pinning hopes for future success on this architecture, dubbed the Tufin Open Platform (TOP). Introduced last April, TOP…

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