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IBM Targets Midmarket with Flurry of Smarter Planet Releases
IBM has announced several new offerings aimed at the mid-sized business market. The new offerings are many, but the message from IBM is fairly simple. The offerings are designed to help customers drive growth in the challenging economic environment and take advantage of the opportunities the Smarter Planet initiative offers. The overall strategic objective with…
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Vyatta Takes Virtualization Out of the Box
Virtualization has impacted nearly every aspect of corporations’ data centers, save one – the network. While server and storage virtualization have increased efficiencies and allowed for consolidation across the board, the networking piece of the puzzle has remained anchored firmly in the physical world. Virtualization vendor Vyatta is poised to change all that with an…
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Cisco Beefs Up Sales Incentives Ahead of Earnings
After watching its core networking gear sales plummet in the first quarter, Cisco Systems is launching a stimulus package of its own: bounties in the form of padded margins and rebates of up to 15 percent of sale prices to solution providers who proactively sell switches and routers. Cisco, which will announce its third-quarter earnings…
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Bell Microproducts Names New North America President
Bell Microproducts has named Chuck Kostalnick as president of North American distribution, replacing Jerry Kagele, who left the distributor to pursue another opportunity. Kostalnick has more than 20 years of experience in the electronics distribution industry and previously served as Bell Micro’s senior vice president of the Technology Solutions Group. In his prior role, Kostalnick…