• 7 Secrets For Sustaining Success For Solution Providers

    Solution providers across India are striving hard to survive the competitive marketplace. To be different in this marketplace, a robust company strategy with right ingredients becomes crucial for partners. ChannelWorld lists seven steps (in no particular order of priority or importance) to emerge as a successful solution provider.

  • Accton launches ‘Edge-Core’ brand for Enterprise Networking in India

    Enterprise Switch /Enterprise WLAN for enterprises and Carrier Access, Carrier Aggregation and Enterprise Switch for Carrier/ISP would be the key product offerings under this brand. Edge-Core aims to be complete end-to-end solution ranges from access to backbone networks to fulfill next generation network requirements. The objective is to engage with  system integrators who are into business of ‘solution selling’ networking offerings to corporate customers.

  • NetApp Appoints Avnet as Distributor In India

    NetApp announced a distribution agreement in India with Avnet Technology Solutions, as part of their strategy to maximize customer value through increased engagements. This agreement will widen the footprint of NetApp’s storage and data management solutions for customers and partners in India.

  • Like EMC, HP Pushes Around Smaller Rival In Bidding War

    The HP/Dell bidding war over storage vendor 3Par was a repeat of last year's high-profile battle between EMC and NetApp. HP has offered $1.6 billion to purchase 3Par, topping Dell's bid of $1.15 billion. If the HP/Dell contest follows the same pattern, Dell will soon raise the bid closer to $2 billion.

  • Study: 57% Of Companies See Cloud As A Transformational Technology

    According to the research, 57% of US enterprises do see cloud as a technology that drives business transformation and innovation, while only 8% see it as hype or as a technology that has no place in their business.

  • AMD Details Next-Generation Server Chip Architecture

    Processors based on Bulldozer will include more cores and perform up to 50% faster than chips based on earlier architectures, said Dina McKinney, Vice President, Design Engineering, AMD. The new design squeezes out more performance by bringing flexibility to the way tasks are executed across processor cores.

  • Datacenter Switch Maker Teams With Vmware To Optimize Gear For Virtualization

    The company introduced VM Tracer, a software enhancement to its EOS operating system that is intended to discover virtual machines and dynamically segment them into virtual LANs. VM Tracer also auto configures VMs based on port profiles defines in VMware's ESX server; and supports multiple VMware vCenter administration stations.

  • Novell Announces General Availability of Novell Cloud Security Service

    Novell Cloud Security Service gives cloud providers the ability to deliver secure access and compliance in the cloud for their customers and Novell is the only vendor to offer this integrated capability, which helps organizations manage complex security and compliance requirements through a cost-effective and easy-to-use suite of products, reportedly.

  • HP Offers $1.6 Billion For 3PAR, Tops Dell's Offer

    The offer will force 3PAR's board to reconsider its merger agreement with Dell as the HP offer is a "superior proposal," according to Shane Robison, Executive Vice President and Chief Strategy and Technology Officer, HP.

  • Study: Infrastructure Services Users Worry Less About Security

    Companies that are considering using IaaS ranked virtualization security as the top barrier to adoption, Yankee found. But companies that have already started using IaaS ranked five other issues as more important than security. Those issues include regulatory compliance, challenges of migrating existing data and employee resistance.