Tag: infrastructure

  • Cisco Picks ScanSource to Advance Distribution Strategy

    Cisco Picks ScanSource to Advance Distribution Strategy

    John Hazard

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    Cisco Systems penned a deal with ScanSource, a Point of Sale and data capture specialty distributor, opening it to thousands of manufacturing and retail VARs, an underserved market for the network vendor. The pick-up, the second distribution deal in as many years for Cisco, opens a second front in a planned three-front distribution strategy to… Read more

  • Sun’s Papadopoulos: Integrated Infrastructure Is the Future

    Sun’s Papadopoulos: Integrated Infrastructure Is the Future

    Channel Insider Staff

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    Sun Microsystems on Oct. 17 will unveil its Project Blackbox, an initiative designed to address such issues as power, cooling and infrastructure deployment for companies in such areas as Web 2.0 and high-performance computing. The plan calls for delivering all the technology traditionally found in a 10,000-square-foot data center—from servers to storage to software—pre-integrated and… Read more

  • Customers Praise New Salesforce.com Apex Platform

    Customers Praise New Salesforce.com Apex Platform

    Renee Boucher Ferguson

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    Granted, it’s only been one day since Salesforce.com announced Apex, its new programming language and platform. Not enough time for anyone to really digest what’s going on, right? Wrong. The response to Apex from customers (and, not surprisingly, partners) has really been overwhelmingly positive. I spent a good amount of time Oct. 9 and Oct.… Read more

  • Gartner Warns to Cut Infrastructure Costs

    Gartner Warns to Cut Infrastructure Costs

    Eric Lundquist

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    ORLANDO, Fla.—If this is October, it must be time to truck down to Orlando to hear warnings, opportunities and forecasts from the Gartner analysts. All those elements were present as the annual Gartner Symposium/ITxpo got underway here on Oct. 9 The big theme this year for business IT was the need for techies to get… Read more

  • Channel Says It’s Confident About State of Business

    Channel Says It’s Confident About State of Business

    Pedro Pereira

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    As the fourth quarter kicks off, IT channel executives say they are optimistic that the overall positive trends they have seen so far in 2006 will continue through the end of the year and beyond. Customers, particularly in the small and midsize business space, have been fueling channel sales growth with their technology purchases, and… Read more

  • Vendors Aim for Easier Virtualization

    Vendors Aim for Easier Virtualization

    Jeffrey Burt

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    With virtualization becoming more mainstream in the enterprise, businesses now are looking for easier and more flexible ways to deploy and manage their environments. VMware, Cassatt and Surgient are rolling out offerings designed to address those demands. The moves come at a time when enterprises are beginning to move their virtualization environments from testing to… Read more