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Top Five Technologies for the Microsoft Channel
If you are a Microsoft ISV, VAR, or SI partner, you need to be thinking about gaining expertise in the following five technologies. At their annual partner conference in Denver this week, it was clear to me that partners need to spend more time understanding how these technologies will play into their own offerings, and…
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Microsoft Preps Remote Management Tool for Channel Partners
Microsoft this week at its Worldwide Partner Conference in Denver will announce plans to release to manufacturing its new Systems Center Remote Operations Manager 2007, intended to help channel partners provide remote management services for their midsize clients. ROM 2007, which will RTM later this month, works in conjunction with Systems Center Essentials 2007 installed…
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Ballmer Urges Partners to Embrace SAAS
DENVER—Microsoft and its partners must change the way they have traditionally done business to accommodate software as a service, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer told attendees at its annual Worldwide Partner Conference here July 10. Ballmer started his keynote—to the tune of “Let’s Get It Started”—by going into the audience and shaking hands up and down…
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Microsoft to Pitch Software Plus Services to Partners
DENVER—The big-picture message Microsoft executives will try to convey at its annual Worldwide Partner Conference that kicks off here July 10 is that software plus services is the future. Underscoring this message is the fact that CEO Steve Ballmer will use his keynote to announce a partnering framework for Microsoft around software plus services. Speaker…
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IBM Cuts Services Jobs in N.A.
IBM has eliminated approximately 1,500 jobs in North American in its technology services unit, a spokesman has confirmed. The cuts mark the second this month in the services arm of the company. The first set, totaling 1,450, were to IBM Global Services mostly in North America, said Ed Barbini, an IBM spokesman. Big Blue’s CTO…
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A New Dell Direction: Is It the Right Course?
Tom Miller has been keeping a close eye on Dell for years. The senior director of IT for FoxHollow Technologies, a cardiovascular health products company in Redwood City, Calif., Miller has been a longtime Dell customer. His company of about 600 employees is standardized on Dell servers and PCs. And Miller has watched as Dell…
