Recent Articles
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Intel Jumps Into Managed Services Market
Intel’s new white-label managed services offering, which includes hosted Microsoft Exchange and Sharepoint, is ready for prime time, according to the company’s channel chief, and is available for partners to start offering to their end customers today. Steve Dallman, the chip giant’s vice president of sales and marketing and general manager of its worldwide reseller…
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Analysts: Size Matters in Cisco Data Center Play
Despite welcoming new networking architecture technology from Cisco, analysts wonder how many VARs will actually be affected by the announcement. Launched April 8 at the Cisco Partner Summit in Honolulu, the Nexus 5000 Series is a network connectivity consolidation switch that includes 10GB Ethernet, Fibre Channel over Ethernet, Data Center Ethernet and virtualization technology and…
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For Intel, Desktops Aren`t Dead
The death of the desktop has been greatly exaggerated, according to Intel’s Tom Rampone. Rather, Intel partners should be excited about the market opportunities for small form factor desktop computers, Intel’s vice president of channel platforms told Channel Insider, and added that they should also look to VOIP (voice over IP) and high-definition video capability.…
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Intel Channel Chief: Virtualization a Boon for Intel
While it seems logical that virtualization would mean fewer servers, fewer processors and a negative impact on Intel’s business, the vendor’s worldwide channel chief says virtualization is actually helping Intel and its partners keep up with demand. Steve Dallman told Channel Insider that though IDC research purports to show that virtualization will decrease the number…
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Cisco, EMC Partner for Data Security
Cisco Systems and EMC announced a plan to integrate products and services to provide end-to-end security for enterprise data. The partnership, made public April 7 as part of a press and analyst session during the RSA Conference in San Francisco, will initially focus on DLP (data loss prevention), data encryption and key management. The collaboration promises…
