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The acquisition last December of Foundry has made Brocade, long a mainstay in the storage network industry, a new force to be reckoned with in the Ethernet networking market.
November 23, 2009
Cisco's North American channel chief checks in on video, UCS, data center, smart grid and that pesky rivalry with HP.
November 20, 2009
Microsoft looks to dominate cloud computing with its bold Windows Azure Platform. Will it succeed?
November 18, 2009
Tech Data senior executives sat down to talk about the direction of the economy, the availability of small-business credit, and what Dell-Perot Systems and Xerox-ACS deals might mean for the channel.
November 16, 2009
But most solution providers agree that the mega-deal puts huge pressure on Cisco.
November 11, 2009
Cisco fired the first round against HP and IBM with its UCS offering which includes blade servers and a close EMC relationship, but now HP is firing back with the acquisition of 3Com, setting the stage for a new polarization in the data center.
November 11, 2009
Logitech's planned $405 million acquisition of videoconferencing player LifeSize gives the computer peripherals company a new market to tackle and a fresh proposition for solution providers.
November 11, 2009
Two education tracks to kick off next year, according to Cisco.
November 10, 2009
New products leverage technologies and platforms acquired through WebEx, PostPath and Jabber.
November 09, 2009
Datalink recently acquired the Cisco networking business from Cross Telecom, and executives of the two solution providers explain how Cisco strategies were a big factor in their decision-making process.
November 06, 2009
Cisco to gather U.S. and international VARs in Paris to talk 21st century marketing.
November 06, 2009
Profit and revenue decline in its fiscal first quarter, but Cisco's CEO sees video, virtualization and collaboration driving Cisco growth.
November 04, 2009
Channel partners of Cisco, EMC, and VMware praise the vendors' Vblock blueprints for building virtual data centers and private computing clouds but want more information.
November 04, 2009
Hewlett-Packard's Converged Infrastructure Architecture portfolio includes fabric, storage, virtualization answers to Cisco's new Virtual Computing Environment.
November 04, 2009
This week's pickup was the set-top box division of a Chinese digital cable company, but it happens against the backdrop of Cisco conflict with Tandberg shareholders.
November 03, 2009
The companies' new Vblock packages are 'validated architectures to let partners bring our technologies to market,' says EMC's Mitch Breen.
November 03, 2009
Crux of the partnership is Vblock, a product set that includes Cisco UCS, EMC storage, RSA security and VMware Vsphere.
November 03, 2009
NetApp President and CEO Tom Georgens recently sat down with Channelweb.com to answer storage solution provider concerns about the channel, the cloud and the competition.
November 02, 2009
Westcon Group is among three distributors chosen for Cisco's major data center play. Unified Computing System products will be available through Comstor, Westcon's Cisco-centric business unit.
October 30, 2009
Many conference attendees chose social media over cybersecurity, Software-as-a-Service, open-source technologies, wireless and mobility, virtualization and videoconferencing.
October 28, 2009
The $183 million deal marks the third acquisition for Cisco in almost as many weeks.
October 27, 2009
In its second acquisition move this month, storage VAR Datalink has agreed to acquire the reseller business of Incentra, giving it an expanded geography and storage and server business and sending Incentra back to its MSP roots.
October 26, 2009
Eighty-seven percent of the survey's vendor respondents said their partners commit warranty and service abuse.
October 23, 2009
Google's top channel executive used the 2009 CRN Fast Growth Conference to paint stormy picture of rivals Cisco and Microsoft.
October 21, 2009
ISR G2 update coincides with Cisco's new Borderless Networks architecture.
October 20, 2009
On The Record
Robert Faletra
For nearly 30 years we have been helping solution providers and high-tech suppliers execute in the market. Fact is, no one has bee...
October 23, 01:00 PM
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Channel Centric
Robert DeMarzo
This is without a doubt my favorite issue of the year. The Annual Report Card is a year in the making, which means we are always w...
October 23, 01:00 PM
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Under The Radar
Larry Hooper
So it is finally here. It seems like only yesterday the world was bashing Microsoft for constantly blowing it with its Vista opera...
October 23, 11:05 AM
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The Final Cut
Steven Burke
One of the highlights of Everything Channel's XChange Tech Innovators conference in Las Vegas this week was all the solution provi...
November 20, 04:10 PM
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The Chart
Ed Moltzen
Academic exercises aren't for everyone, but once in a while they can be interesting.
Here's one I started last week: I filled a h...
November 16, 12:23 PM
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Joe Caponi
Vendors: this is what you've been waiting for. Applications are now open for the 2010 Partner Programs guide, our definitive listing of vendor channel programs, and the Channel Chiefs directory, our more personal look at the top executives creating
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