Tag: strategy

  • Cisco Data Center 3.0 Strategy Advances Against HP

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    LAS VEGAS — Cisco is using its Cisco Live! 2010 event to announce advances in energy management, data center virtualization, cloud computing and collaboration. The networking company says high-end data-center customers are looking for massive scalability, high-bandwidth, low latency and compatible switching solutions, and that’s what they’re getting with three of the announcements: the new… Read more

  • Cisco’s Goodwin: Virtualization, Cloud Driving New Channel Opportunities

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    Cisco Systems has never been a company that sat idly by as the world around it evolved. In the past 18 months, Cisco has embarked on radical departures from its networking legacy to embrace emerging technologies such as video, consumer electronics and, of course, virtualized data centers. The evolution of Cisco has put it on… Read more

  • Brocade Unveils Unified Network Architecture and Strategy

    Brocade Unveils Unified Network Architecture and Strategy
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    NEW YORK — Brocade used its annual Technology Day event to unveil a new network architecture and strategy intended to help customers simplify the complexity of virtualizing their applications. In addition to Brocade One, the company announced new solutions and technologies to optimize data center networks to support virtual servers, applications and data, as well… Read more

  • Using Social Media to Market VAR Business

    Using Social Media to Market VAR Business
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    Social media marketing may simply be a new technology attached to an old marketing method (word of mouth), but using it effectively can improve relations with existing customers and – over time – generate net new business for VARs. Social media experts offer some tips as to how to do just that. As an extension… Read more

  • IT Solution Provider Mergers and Acquisitions Market Heats Up

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    Doug Ford was never looking for any kind of exit strategy when he started up The I.T. Pros, a San Diego-based IT solution provider and MSP that has grown to a lean 21 employees and three profit centers in cloud computing, managed services and professional services. Rather, Ford was looking to expand beyond the San… Read more

  • Intel, AMD Must Evolve to Succeed

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    CEO Paul Otellini says the industry should stop viewing Intel as solely a chip maker and come to see it as a computing business, complete with software and services. For its part, AMD, with its Vision strategy, is looking to change how consumers buy PCs; at the same time, the company sees the 2011 release… Read more