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Google Mail Outage Sparks User Concern
(Reuters) – A majority of Google mail users were unable to access the service on Tuesday afternoon, in a rare widespread outage of the popular Gmail service. Google said at 5:37 p.m. edt (9:37 GMT) that it fixed the problem but was still investigating the cause of the outage, which lasted for over an hour.…
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Some Friend, Some Foe: Virtualization Vendors Join Fray at VMworld
SAN FRANCISCO: VMware kicked off the sixth VMworld with product, program and results announcements, but a number of its partners, including the don’t-turn-your-back-on-duo Microsoft and Citrix, had their own news to spread. Here’s a sampling of some of the announcements made just prior to or at the event. Microsoft really jumped the gun, with its…
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VMware Makes Noise at VMworld
SAN FRANCISCO: VMware kicked off its sixth annual VMworld with a flurry of announcements including new products, partnerships and performance data. The virtualization event, which runs until Thursday, is expected to draw more than 10,000 attendees and over 200 sponsors and exhibitors. This year’s theme is ‘Hello Freedom’, and ‘goodbye to the limitations of the…
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Dell Channel Partners to Resell Dell, Brocade Solution
Dell’s expanded OEM relationship with Brocade that positions Dell to compete against Cisco’s Unified Computing initiative will enable Dell’s channel partner resellers to sell the solutions to their end customers. A Dell spokeswoman confirmed the channel partner play that follows the OEM deals with Brocade, Scalent and VMware, announced at the VMworld event in San…
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Ingram Micro Targets Midmarket, Enterprise with Nimsoft Managed Services
Distributor Ingram Micro is taking its Seismic managed services offering to providers who target midmarket and enterprise business customers with the addition of Nimsoft Monitoring Solutions. The deal will enable Ingram Micro partners in the United States and Canada to offer business service management, dashboards, SLAs, application monitoring services and other management features to their…
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Oracle’s Channel Chief Tackles Acquisitions
When Judson Althoff took on the role of senior vice president of Oracle’s worldwide alliances and channels business 18 months ago his first marching orders involved refocusing the direct-selling models of Oracle’s many new corporate acquisitions to a channel model. Given Oracle’s massive buying spree over the past few years, this was and remains a…