Competitors attack Oracle’s purchase of Hyperion
A Cognos executive dismisses as speculation observations that her company is next. Oracle’s move, she said, has strengthened her company
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Spending on open source support services in Canada to soar
Expect to see compound annual growth rate of over 16 per cent for the next five years: Gartner
LANs and SANs go virtual
Virtual Connect modules for c-Class blades allow servers to be changed in minutes, says HP
Brocade touts first quarter numbers
Revenues up 7 per cent from previous quarter
HP brings out virtual tape library for SMBs
Organizations can have disk-to-disk backup for less than $5,000
SMB IT spending this year will be almost flat: Forrester
Will be slightly above last year, which saw a big boost, company says after survey of IT managers. Priorities will be security and disaster recovery
Chew on these statistics
Forrester number crunching of enterprise server buyers could help VARs make sales
Pandora wants to open communications box here
U.S. communications provider coming north for partners
Tablet PC maker to go after health care market with specialized device
Motion Computing’s C5 has no ports so it can be disinfected if necessary
Feisty Lotus shifts to offence
IBM is going social in a bid to invigorate its Lotus brand
EMC fleshes out UltraScale line
CX3-10 includes both iSCSI and Fiber Channel connectivity. A reseller believes it will open doors for his firm
Unbreakable and invisible?
14 weeks ago Oracle announced its so-called Unbreakable Linux program. There’s no indication yet customers are signing up
Advice to VARs: Get tough
A channel consultant urges partners to make hardnosed decisions to survive
New Oracle channel plan targets SMB
The Accelerate rapid implementation program to help partners sell to small and medium businesses
Paget to take over Avnet Technology Solutions
Executive goes back to old stomping grounds, which is now under new management. Plans to diversify distributor’s enterprise offerings for VARs by capturing SMB opportunities