Tag: application

  • Avnet Teams with IBM, Novell to Encourage Linux in SMBs

    John Hazard

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    Distributor Avnet has parceled together a pair of Linux stacks for the small and midsize business market, with support from IBM and Novell, with an eye to introducing the open-source operating system to first-time users. The bundled solutions, “Integrated Stack for Linux,” in enterprise infrastructure solution and Web application and database solution versions, are designed… Read more

  • Application Acceleration Market Hits $1.2B

    Application Acceleration Market Hits $1.2B

    Paula Musich

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    The worldwide market for application acceleration technology grew to $1.2 billion in 2005, a 36 percent spike over 2004, according to Gartner in a new report issued April 3. The market is made up of application delivery controllers and WAN optimization controllers, although application delivery controllers made up a larger share of the overall market,… Read more

  • Partnering Is Key to Software as a Service

    Partnering Is Key to Software as a Service

    Buell Duncan

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    The ease of using business software delivered over the Internet, rather than owning it outright, is turning scores of customers and their software vendors into true believers. This emerging model, known as SAAS (Software as a Service), holds significant new market opportunities, but some channel vendors are still contemplating what it means for their businesses.… Read more

  • Xactly Sheds Light on Partners’ Sales Pictures

    John Hazard

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    The common practices for tracking partners’ sales statistics are too murky for Chris Cabrera’s liking. The reliance on Excel spreadsheets and sales reports delivered months behind can leave partners in the dark about their performance and thus they could fail to capitalize on incentives, Cabrera said. While working for software maker Callidus, which produced sales… Read more

  • SAP to Offer On-Demand CRM

    SAP to Offer On-Demand CRM

    Renee Boucher Ferguson

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    After months of hinting, SAP AG will announce Feb. 2 its long-awaited platform for on-demand CRM software, at dual events in Palo Alto, Calif., and New York. But the competition for on-demand customers is fierce. Smaller niche players like Salesforce.com, NetSuite and RightNow Technologies have all been in the on-demand game for half a decade—and… Read more

  • F5 Delivers Next-Gen Traffic Management

    F5 Delivers Next-Gen Traffic Management

    Paula Musich

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    F5 Networks on Monday continued its leapfrog game with competitors in the application delivery arena when it introduced a new 10G-bps hardware platform, a next-generation global link controller, and support for monitoring and managing traffic from loosely coupled Web services applications. F5’s news, coming on the heels of competitor Foundry Networks’ launch of its next-generation… Read more