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  • Dell to Acquire SAAS Provider Everdream

    Dell to Acquire SAAS Provider Everdream

    Jessica Davis

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    PC maker Dell has signed an agreement to acquire Everdream, a provider of software-as-a-service solutions for remote service management. Dell said the deal would complement the capabilities it gained earlier in 2007 when it acquired MSP (managed services provider) platform company SilverBack Technologies. Together, the technologies from the two companies will further enable end-to-end remote… Read more

  • Dell to Offer Sun’s Solaris, OpenSolaris in Servers

    Dell to Offer Sun’s Solaris, OpenSolaris in Servers

    Chris Preimesberger

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    SAN FRANCISCO – Erstwhile bitter rivals Dell and Sun Microsystems are set to announce that Sun’s Solaris and OpenSolaris operating systems will be supported in all of Dell’s servers. Dell founder and CEO Michael Dell and Sun Microsystems CEO Jonathan Schwartz plan to make the announcement during a joint appearance at the Oracle OpenWorld 2007… Read more

  • Vendors Unite to Tackle IT Certifications

    Sara Driscoll

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    Rival technology vendors are putting their differences aside to jointly develop and address the perceptions of IT certifications. Hewlett-Packard, IBM, Microsoft, Sun and Novell, alongside industry organizations CompTIA (Computing Technology Industry Association) and the LPI (Linux Professional Institute) have formed the ITCC (Information Technology Certification Council). The council will provide information to employers, government officials,… Read more

  • MaintenanceNet Helps Match Services to Products

    Jessica Davis

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    Maintenance contract and warranty management services provider MaintenanceNet has introduced a new software as a service tool to help technology manufacturers, channel partners and customers match up the right services to buy with particular products. Called Service Finder, the new offering allows searching by product name or SKU number to find the right services. An… Read more

  • AMR: Retail Software Sales to Top $10 Billion by 2011

    AMR: Retail Software Sales to Top $10 Billion by 2011

    Evan Schuman

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    A retail community with aging merchandising applications and the need to quickly strengthen merged channel technology will fuel a sharp growth in retail software purchases over the next few years, according to a new report from AMR Research. Retail software sales last year were $7.3 billion, with a compound annual growth rate of 7 percent… Read more

  • Ingram Micro to Offer Cisco MDS 9000 Series

    Sharon Linsenbach

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    Ingram Micro announced on Nov.12 it will offer Cisco’s MDS 9000 Series of storage area networking products, including both fabric switches and directors, allowing partners to bulk up their storage solution line cards. Cisco’s network-enabled storage products enable Ingram Micro channel partners to build storage solutions that include virtualized networks and remote backup, as well… Read more