Tag: application

  • Mitel Updates SMB Portfolio

    Sharon Linsenbach

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    Robert Handel, vice president of sales at telecommunications provider and integrator Cortel, is always looking for a reason to upsell his company’s existing customers with new opportunities. Now he has that reason, as Mitel has announced a consolidated SMB UC (unified communications) portfolio as well as a managed services offering, Total Solutions. "At their annual partner… Read more

  • Servoy Blurs Line Between Web Apps, Desktop Apps

    Frank Ohlhorst

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    Web-based applications are all the rage. That’s great news for application developers, who are making a tidy living off of developing those fancy browser-based applications, but where does that leave those developing traditional client/server rich desktop applications? The situation for those developers is quickly becoming "evolve or die." The shift to Web-based applications has started… Read more

  • Cisco Partners to Enable Branch Offices with Virtualization

    Jessica Davis

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    Looking to help partners take Cisco’s virtualized networking environment from its big customers down into their branch offices to enable applications from Microsoft Office Communications Server to Cisco’s Telepresence, Cisco has updated its WAAS offering, introduced new Cisco Data Center 3.0 professional programs and services, and announced a handful of other updates. "We are bringing… Read more

  • A PC Tune-Up to Improve Vista Performance

    A PC Tune-Up to Improve Vista Performance

    Frank Ohlhorst

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    By Frank J. Ohlhorst One of the biggest complaints users have about Vista  is slow performance. With Vista, slow boot ups and application launches are mostly the nature of the beast. After all Vista is chock full of services and code to help protect users from threats. Large Software is taking on the speed challenge… Read more

  • IBM launches SMB Assault

    Sara Driscoll

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    IBM has added more strings to its SMB bow, by unveiling new channel programs aimed at helping partners and ISVs to unite and deliver solutions based on Big Blue’s platform to for the small business sector.  The vendor is launching new platforms as it looks to move aggressively into the SMB sector, targeting companies from… Read more

  • New Opportunities for an Old Model

    Michael O’Neil

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    Many years ago, when oil was cheaper than water and the only generation with a name was the “baby boomers,” the channel was dominated by “VARs.”  Like age groups and energy policy, the channel was simpler then. These VARs focused on a variety of markets, but in essentially the same way. They signed volume purchase agreements with… Read more