Tag: migration

  • Virtualization Offers Opportunities, Challenges for SMBs, Report Says

    Nathan Eddy

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    IT business and market analytics company AMI-Partners announced the findings of a report July 22 suggesting small and midsize businesses are increasingly turning to virtualization to solve their business challenges, which AMI said posed "serious implications" for the midmarket ecosystem, with effects such as "limiting the growth in shipments of physical IT equipment, especially servers."… Read more

  • IBM Adds Sybase Migration Technology to IBM DB2

    Channel Insider Staff

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    IBM is offering new technology that will allow Sybase users to move to IBM DB2 with virtually no changes to application code. The technology is called DB2 SQL Skin, and will be sold to DB2 customers as a feature starting May 28. Developed jointly by IBM and ANTs Software, the technology is aimed at easing… Read more

  • HP to Pay Incentives to SAP Customers That Migrate from Sun to HP

    Jessica Davis

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    Hewlett-Packard is offering Oracle SunSet Program incentives for partners who move customers off Oracle Sun SPARC servers for their SAP implementations to an HP infrastructure instead. HP made the announcement at the SAP Sapphire conference in Orlando, Fla., this week in the form of the HP Migration in a Box. The offering provides a comprehensive… Read more

  • Google Apps Adds Server-Side Microsoft Exchange Migration Tool

    Jessica Davis

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    Google ramped up the noise for its Google Apps this week by offering a new server-side tool to help organizations and partners migrate company email, calendar and contact data from Microsoft Exchange to Google Apps. The move by Google is only the most recent against incumbent Microsoft which has dominated the corporate space with its… Read more

  • Channel Gets Rebate on Brocade 10 Gigabit Ethernet Switch

    Jessica Davis

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    Looking to capitalize on the growth of server virtualization and infrastructure consolidation, Brocade has unveiled its Brocade FCX series of 10/100/1000M bps with 10 Gigabit Ethernet (10 GbE) uplink top-of-rack switches. The lineup offers price/performance value starting at $4,945 and available starting in April to help customers both reduce overhead costs and scale their networking… Read more

  • Making the Kace for XP-to-Windows 7 Migration

    Steve Wexler

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    Like Vista before it, Microsoft’s Windows 7 will capture a significant portion of the operating system market just because it will ship on the majority of new PCs sold over the next few years. However, for the installed PC base that isn’t planning to move over to Apple’s resurgent Macintosh platform, the question isn’t are… Read more