From the Editor: Forget the Tech
Vijay Ramachandran, ChannelWorldIndian companies no longer invest in technology, rather they fund business outcomes. Forget the tech, focus on your clients’ business drivers.
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Cisco Retains No.1 Position In India WLAN Market In Revenues In 2009 as per IDC
Added 4th Aug 2010Cisco has been holding the Number 1 position in
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eGestalt Launches 'Managed Compliance Provider' Channel Program
Added 4th Aug 2010The channel program is clamed to enable service providers including value- added resellers (VARs), process consultants, managed services providers (MSPs) and managed security services providers (MSSPs) to deliver an affordable cloud based, security and compliance offering.
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Fujitsu 8-Socket Server Brings X86 Price Performance Into Mission-Critical Computing
Added 4th Aug 2010The PRIMERGY RX900 S1 is claimed to offer financial sector, public sector, and wide range of industries with the high-levels of reliability for scale-up applications previously dominated by expensive and proprietary RISC/Unix systems.
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Extreme Networks Taps CEO With Loads Of Enterprise Network Experience
Added 4th Aug 2010Oscar Rodriguez, a 20-year industry veteran is the new President and CEO. Extreme had 1.5% share of $16 billion Ethernet switch market in 2009 as per Dell'Oro Group, sixth behind Cisco, HP/3Com, Brocade, Avaya and Huawei.
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Microsoft Sticks To Plan, Denies Emergency Patch For XP SP2
Added 4th Aug 2010Recently, Microsoft shipped an emergency patch for Windows shortcut bug that attackers have been exploiting for several weeks. The vulnerability affects all versions from Win 2000 on, including XP,
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3PAR Introduces Unified Management Console For Multi-Site Storage Replication
Added 4th Aug 2010The InForm Management Console is claimed to offer ease of use and advanced capabilities such as autonomic disaster recovery configuration and ‘three click’, multi-site remote replication setup.
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Microsoft Simplifies Visual Studio
Added 4th Aug 2010On August 23, the company will release a beta version of Visual Studio, called Visual Studio LightSwitch, aimed at simplifying the process of developing applications.
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After CMDA, Other IT Associations To Demand Uniform Pricing
Added 3rd Aug 2010The grievances of channel partners raised by Computer & Media Dealers Association of Pune (CMDA) to IT vendors over uniform pricing and octroi issue seems to gain momentum. Various IT associations support CMDA’s initiative.
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HP Reveals SMB Strategy For Laserjet Printers
Added 3rd Aug 2010Hewlett-Packard rolled out ‘Demand More’ for the HP LaserJet printers category which is focused on the SMB segment who demand productivity, efficiency and cost-savings.HP India is conducting channel meets for managed final tier partners across 35 cities.
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SIA: Global Chip Sales Jump On PC, Cell Phone Demand
Added 3rd Aug 2010Worldwide semiconductor sales during the second quarter totaled $74.8 billion, up from $51.7 billion during the same quarter a year ago, says SIA. Emerging markets like
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Cisco Settles Antitrust Suit Over Software Updates
Added 3rd Aug 2010An independent network maintenance company Multiven charged that Cisco forced customers to buy its SMARTnet service plan in order to get bug fixes and software updates.
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Study Reflects Weak Server Spending This Year
Added 3rd Aug 2010TheInfoPro says that despite proclamations of budgets opening up, server spending in 2010 remains weak. 38% of the 252 decision makers at Fortune 1000 companiesplan to reduce server budgets this year compared to 2009, while 25% plan to spend more.
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HP Takes Charge To Settle DOJ Kickbacks Case
Added 3rd Aug 2010The company has settled accusations that it made improper payments to win US government contracts. As a result of the settlement, HP expects to take a one-time charge of about $0.02 per share against its earnings for the third quarter, the company said.
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Pancetera Unveils Virtual Storage Software
Added 3rd Aug 2010Runs on a VM and creates backup export mount points along with a single mangement view of a virtual server backup environment, It claims Pancetera Unite can reduce up to 80% of virtual server traffic for backups.
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Digilink Reveals Roadmap For ‘Digisol’ Brand
Added 2nd Aug 2010In his first interview after appointment as Director, Sales & Marketing, Digilink, Prabodh Vyas said, "Digilink will expand its range by September this year, covering 70 to 80% of active networking needs for an organization.The product range of active networking products would be targeted at SMBs and mid market organizations now."
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Public Clouds Open Data Storage Services: Analyst
Added 2nd Aug 2010Data storage services are becoming available in public clouds with the move set to cut enterprise IT costs and make life easier for CIOs trying to best utilize cloud computing.
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Intel's Legal Issues Help AMD Gain In Graphics Market
Added 2nd Aug 2010Intel maintained its lead in the shipment of graphics products with a 54.9 percent market share during the second quarter, But AMD took advantage of Intel's legal issues and Nvidia's weak product execution to gain market share, said Jon Peddie, president of Jon Peddie Research (JPR).
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Acer Chalks Server Roadmap for India
Added 31st Jul 2010Acer’s main focus in server market will be on availability, scalability, price and density. The server will be available in two categories – ‘standard to order’ will be available directly in the market and ‘flexible to order’ for businesses that need customized servers.
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Citrix tops VMware in Desktop Virtualization, again
Added 31st Jul 2010VMware's slowness in comparison to Citrix won't necessarily be fatal, as both companies have captured a significant portion of early virtual desktop customers. New data from IDC shows that VDI hasn't really taken off yet, so the race to provide the definitive desktop virtualization platform is far from over.
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SAP warms to Open Source
Added 31st Jul 2010The German-based SAP is adopting more open-source software, as well as contributing more of its own code back into the community. "In the past we didn't have an open-source strategy," said Claus von Riegen, SAP's program director of technology standards and open source.
