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IBM: Partners Turning Back to Mainframe Solutions
For IBM and its partners, mainframes are back in style. The Armonk, N.Y., IT giant announced Dec. 19 that nearly 400 of its partners and ISVs have begun to offer more than 1,000 applications based on its System z mainframes that run Linux. The reason for ISVs turning to Linux-based mainframes vary, but Buell Duncan,…
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More Consolidation: HP VARs Pepperweed and JCube to Join
Hewlett-Packard VARs Pepperweed Consulting and JCube Consulting Services will join forces, both announced Dec. 13, creating a significant presence in the business process management and business technology optimization spaces. Pepperweed, of Indianapolis, agreed to acquire JCube, of San Diego, according to Pepperweed. The merger positions Pepperweed as “leading channel provider of HP business technology optimization…
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Cisco Capital Slates $2B in Financing for Channel Partners in Emerging Markets
Cisco Capital has expanded its short-term inventory financing for emerging regions to $2 billion through agreements with financial partners Citibank, General Electric’s GE Capital Solutions and Standard Chartered Bank. The new funds will offer short-term financing to Cisco channel partners in the Middle East, Africa, Latin America, Russia and the Commonwealth of Independent states, and…
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Edgy in name only
Having emerged, mostly, from the depths of Windows Vista testing, I’ve turned my attention to Edgy Eft, the latest version of Canonical’s Ubuntu Linux. As its name is meant to imply, this most recent Ubuntu release is supposed to ride the bleeding edge. So far, however, I’ve found it fairly tame. Edgy Eft ships with…
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Cisco Offers a Master’s for Unified Communications Partners
Cisco Systems on Nov. 6 is launching the second phase of a revamped partner program that aims to make systems integrators and VARs specialists in their chosen fields of expertise. The second of these “master specializations” focuses on what Cisco executives point to as a growing and lucrative field for partners: unified communications. The idea…
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Microsoft Takes One Step Forward and One Step Back
Microsoft recently announced its intention to make life easier for its Windows Server customers who’re building virtualization into their infrastructures, by changing its licensing to permit an unlimited number of virtualized Windows Server instances to run on a single copy of Windows Server 2003 Data Center Edition. Earlier this year, Microsoft announced a similar change…
