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Cisco, Westcon Ink Multiyear Global Partnership
A multi-year global distribution agreement between Cisco Systems and Westcon Group will make it easier for Cisco’s channel partners to do multi-national and global deals with their customers. The agreement pulls together all of the individual country and theatre distribution deals that Cisco has with Westcon into a consolidated whole. Now the two companies only…
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Synnex Pursues Open Source Strategy
Synnex is aggressively pursuing the open-source market and has put together a Red Hat-led consortium of ISVs to offer solution bundles to the channel. It has launched the Open Source Channel Alliance, consisting initially of nine ISVs, intended to drive open source adoption in the mid-market. According to a statement by Peter Larocque, president of…
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FalconStor Solutions for VMware Enable Disaster Recovery
FalconStor is bundling its most popular solutions offerings under a new incentive program that will help solution providers deliver more comprehensive business continuity and disaster recovery solutions for customers’ VMware-based virtual server environments. The new Virtual Protect Program, announced this week at VMware’s Partner Exchange solution provider conference, is based on FalconStor’s NSS (Network Storage…
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Intel Declares PC Market Has Hit Bottom
Intel CEO Paul Otellini declared an end to falling PC demand, saying the industry has reached bottom. However, Intel’s internal forecasts for the second quarter aren’t showing much of an upside. And the news is better for OEMs who focus on the consumer side than it is for vendors who target IT enterprise customers The…
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Voltaire Intros New Channel Partner Program
High-performance data center solutions manufacturer Voltaire has announced a formalized channel partner program aimed at making it easier and more profitable for solution providers to deliver data center technology to a greater number of enterprise customers. For years, Voltaire has worked informally with a network of solution providers focused mostly on the HPC (high-performance computing)…
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Office 2010 Slated for Release in First Half 2010
Microsoft has announced its latest productivity suite, Office 2010, will be released to the public next year after the software giant completes technical previews in the third quarter of 2009. While beta screenshots for Office 2010, code-named Office 14, were leaked in early January, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer confirmed that the productivity suite will not…