Recent Articles
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VMware Virtualization Goes Generic
Looking to expand its market to reach more SMBs and geographies, VMware has announced that it will certify its VMware ESX and ESXi hypervisor on servers offered by certain white box manufacturers. The virtualization vendor announced its new relationships with ODMs (original design manufacturers) ASUS, Gigabyte, Inventec and Tyan at Computex Taipei. The new ODM…
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VARs Eye Boom in Hosted Microsoft Exchange Business
When Microsoft released its own hosted Microsoft Exchange and Microsoft Sharepoint offerings to sell directly to customers this past March, many observers expected a cold reception from the company’s longstanding channel partners. And some may indeed have felt a shiver when they heard that the world’s largest software company, and one that had always been…
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Daily Channel Briefing
Microsoft’s Small Business Server 2008 public preview is now available, the company reports in one of its corporate blogs. The actual site where you can check it out is located here. This is the long-awaited and long-overdue update to the 2003 version of Windows Small Business Server. Pricing and specs are available here. http://blogs.msdn.com/mssmallbiz/archive/2008/05/13/8500555.aspx Dell‘s…
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VARs Need to Adjust VOIP Focus
VOIP is hot. It’s hard to find anyone to argue that. Solution providers are doing a brisk business especially in the SMB space wooing clients over to IP telephony. The latest figures from the Dell’Oro Group show VOIP adoption jumping 30 percent year over year among SMBs. But the driving force behind many of those…
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Top SMB Vendors
Small is the new big. Many vendors recognize that the SMB (small and midsize business) market is growing fast and they want to do business there. But not all vendors do an equally good job of taking care of the little guy. Here are the ones that VARs say