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  • Juniper Rolls Out New Midmarket Routers, Switches

    Juniper Networks introduced a new series of high-performance networking solutions that are designed to lower costs for solution providers and their midmarket and distributed enterprise customers, and to optimize switching, routing and security. At the heart of Juniper’s new offerings is its JUNOS network operating system, which allows the new products to easily integrate with…

  • Services Offset Decline in Product Sales

    As toplines continue to drop, channel partners should be turning to service contracts to make up for some of that lost revenue, said the head of MaintenanceNet. When it comes to service and maintenance contracts, it’s money being left on the table. While that’s bad enough in good economic times, in a poor economy, changing…

  • IBM Pushes Value of Social Media, Gaming

    While it apparently went over the head of celebrity host Billy Crystal, IBM execs have been extolling the virtues of twittering and tweeting at IMPACT 2009, its annual SOA (solutions-oriented architecture) conference. On day two the company made a couple of announcements about expanding its social media offerings for partners and developers. "We’re the first…

  • Search Comes to Managed Services

    The two biggest issues with managed services for most solution providers is the cost of creating the service and then dealing with the process by which the multitude of devices in the customer environments actually become managed. While there has been no shortage of managed services platforms to use as a service, the issue that…

  • Will a Stronger Economy Hurt Netbook Sales?

    While netbooks are being positioned as secondary portable computers, the economic conditions are helping to drive the market, as well. End-users are looking for portable, low-cost computers because of the reduced disposable income, but while the economy is certainly a driving force behind the growth of the market, it’s not the only factor. "I think…

  • HP Snags EMC Executive for Server, Storage Business

     HP has brought on David Donatelli, former president of EMC‘s storage division, to serve in the role of executive vice president of enterprise servers, storage and networking. According to analysts, this appointment is a sign that HP has plans to give its servers, storage and networking business a jumpstart. Donatelli began in his new role…

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