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Cisco Sets Sights on the Data Center
Cisco is hoping to transform the data center and is relying on its partners to help in what the networking vendor said is a $14 billion opportunity. Speaking at its Partner Summit in Honolulu April 8, Cisco said it intends to double sales of hardware into the data center in the next five years to…
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Security Channel May Be Heading for a Contraction
A few years back there was a mass migration in the channel to security technology as solution providers, driven by a hunger for more profitability, looked for new areas where they could find higher margins. Most were responding to the fact that the number of solution providers selling network infrastructure had ballooned so much that…
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IBM Federal Suspension Timeline
Friday, April 4 — The General Services Administration issues a statement saying that the Environmental Protection Agency has lifted the suspension which banned IBM from participating in any new contracts with any federal agencies. IBM says it will resume its participation immediately, and will continue to cooperate with government investigations. Thursday, April 3 — Reversing…
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Feds Lift IBM Suspension
The ban against IBM selling to the federal government has been lifted, according to government sources. In a statement released the morning of April 4 by the General Services Administration, the Environmental Protection Agency lifted the suspension against IBM a week after it was imposed. Big Blue, in a prepared statement, said that it planned…
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Cisco: Video Is Killer App
On the eve of its Partner Summit, Cisco execs have stressed the importance of video and other emerging technologies to the networking vendor and its channel. Speaking to Channel Insider, Marthin De Beer, senior vice president of the Emerging Technologies Group at Cisco, said the company has invested “north of $100 million” in its latest…
