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Cisco Promotes Learning Channel for Training
One of the little-publicized aspects of Cisco’s channel is a separate program for partners devoted to providing training and education services on Cisco products and solutions. The program’s not new. It’s been in place for 15 years, but of late, the networking giant has been trying to drum up greater notice. The Cisco Learning Channel…
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HP Polishes NonStop Computing Products
HP has announced a number of enhancements to the HP Integrity NonStop portfolio that are intended to deliver increased capacity, improved performance and better enterprise integration. While analysts offer mixed opinions on the platform, Randy Meyer, director of NonStop product management, strategy and technology at HP, says there is a strong market that is appealing…
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Avnet Climbs Aboard the Cisco Unified Computing Train
Avnet has joined the growing army of distributors lining up to make it easier for channel partner solution providers to resell and install Cisco’s Unified Computing System. This week the IT and electronics distributor announced that it would create a dedicated business unit focused on Cisco Systems’ data center product suite, and it would sell…
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Microsoft Customer Satisfaction Mandate Looms
When Microsoft informed its partners that conducting customer satisfaction surveys would be mandatory to maintain or achieve Gold Certified level status in the revamped Microsoft Partner Network, it was viewed by some as yet-another administrative hurdle. Outward grumbling was kept to a minimum, however, though some partners privately wondered whether they reaped any benefit from…
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Are Microsoft’s Best Days Behind It?
It’s strange and almost silly to think of putting Microsoft on a death watch, but chatter is increasingly rising about the steady decline and dimming future for the world’s largest and most successful software company. Just a couple of years ago Microsoft seemed an invincible force, yet an increasing number of pundits and solution providers…
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Dramatic Data Center Denouement: Making Sense of 2009
Lean and Green Seems like one of the mantras of 2009 was “Do more with less,” and that’s what going green is most often all about. Whether it’s greater energy efficiency or greater attention to recycling IT assets when they’ve come to the end of their useful lives, green was a big trend for the…
