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Ingram Micro Mobility to Distribute Globo Products
By Gina Roos Globo plc has signed a distribution agreement with Ingram Micro. The deal allows the IT services and logistics solutions provider to distribute Globo’s mobility solutions for the enterprise and the small- and midsize-business (SMB) market to authorized resellers in the United States and Canada. Ingram Micro Mobility, a new business unit of…
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IBM Ramps Up TMS Distribution Channel
By Gina Roos Texas Memory Systems (TMS), an IBM company, has added Avnet Technology Solutions to its distribution roster to sell its flash-based storage solutions in the United States and Canada. Under the agreement, Avnet will sell TMS’ full line of solid-state memory solutions, including the RamSan family of shared rack mount systems and Peripheral…
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HP Seeks to Reinvigorate the Channel
As part of a major overhaul of the HP PartnerOne channel program, HP announced plans at the HP Global Partner Conference 2013 (Feb. 19 to 21) in Las Vegas to reunify its channel program and ensure that partners get rewarded, starting with their first sale. All told, HP will invest $1.5 billion this year in…
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Hadoop Gets a Lot More Channel Friendly
While the amount of interest in Big Data at the moment may far exceeds the actual number of IT projects being launched using the technology platform; it’s clear that technologies such as Hadoop are creating a significant new opportunity for the channel. Solution providers looking to take advantage of those opportunities should take note of…
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IBM Partners Using PureSystems to Capture Intellectual Property
One of the problems that solution providers have is that much of their intellectual property is inside the heads of their employees. When those employees leave, they tend to take a fair amount of that expertise with them. Marie Wieck, IBM general manager for WebSphere, says that one of the more interesting use cases that…
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Putting a Better Big Data Face on Windows 8
With the rise of Big Data the single most compelling reason to upgrade any client system is going to be the ability to actually visualize all that data. Existing systems by and large do a poor job of visualization, especially when compared to Windows 8 or the MacOS running on the latest next-generation processor from…
