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Channel Partners: Services Revenue Remains Healthy
Partner-delivered services seem to be recession-proof, according to a new survey of reseller channel partners. The survey of IDC’s Channel Panel for the second quarter found that the highest levels of service revenue, making up 47 percent of total partner revenue, came from those who sold networking products. But the revenue received from reselling third-party…
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Google Revamps DoubleClick Exchange
(Reuters) – Google Inc announced a major overhaul of the DoubleClick ad exchange it acquired last year, an important step in the Internet search giant’s plan to extend its advertising business into the market for graphical, display ads. Google acquired DoubleClick for more than $3 billion in March 2008, in hopes of supplementing its lucrative…
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Will Oracle Walk Away from the Sun Deal?
While greeted with much fanfare when announced in April, Oracle’s (NASDAQ:ORCL) planned acquisition of Sun Microsystems (NASDAQ:JAVA) has seemed to lose much of its shine recently. Indeed, observers, including analyst Rob Enderle, point out that one of the original suitors, IBM, may have become the real beneficiary of the proposed Oracle-Sun deal, as customers waiting…
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Storage Vendor NetApp Intros FAS2040, Drops Price on FAS2020
With its reseller channel partners in mind, NetApp has simplified its FA2000 product line, reducing the number of SKUs from over 45 to about 10. NetApp this week also announced a new FAS2040 storage system for midsized enterprise and distributed enterprise customers and announced significant price reductions for its FAS2020 systems. “These changes came as…
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Oracle Takes Aim at Sun Competitors
Oracle and its soon-to-be-acquired partner, Sun Microsystems, made their first joint product announcement since the April 20 merger announcement on Sept. 15 when they unveiled a souped-up, NAND flash-based database server designed for both enterprise-level data warehousing and extreme-performance online transaction processing. As the trend has been playing out for the last two years, it’s…
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SMB Surveys Reveal Mixed Results
A trio of new surveys indicates that SMBs will: (a) be reducing their budgets 4 percent this year (Forrester Research); (b) make significant investments in new hardware and software over the next six months (Spiceworks); and (c) believe the economy will improve moderately by the end of the year (PartnerUp). So basically, pick your survey…