Oracle hypes Hyperion acquisition
Company vows to create a more comprehensive business intelligence suite, but competitors shrug. However, an industry analyst thinks one of them may be swallowed
3Com rolls the dice on OSN
Can Open Services Networking (OSN) lead the company to an unexpected comeback? Analysts and at least one VAR think it may just be in the cards
Battle coming over mid-market CRM
With Microsoft’s CRM Live about to debut, the struggle over on-premise versus on-demand is heating up
Microsoft gets vertical
New ISV solution certification program announced at Microsoft Dynamics event deepens company’s push to specialization
Carol and company
Microsoft Canada’s top channel executive is pushing partner competencies as a way to increase profitability, even in a SaaS model
Cisco acquires NeoPath
Santa Clara, Calif. – Cisco Systems has a definitive agreement to acquire privately-held NeoPath Networks, a provider…
Affordable NAS
Linksys targets small business with NSS line for storage and backup needs
CDN survey shows CE/IT crossover is real
Many readers told us that they’re either carrying consumer electronics products now or will expand into the category in the next 12 months
HP unveils latest IT/CE crossover product
HP has redesigned the old black or beige coloured storage sub-system. The computing giant also slimmed the tower model down by more than half, chopped the price dramatically and boosted the capacity to reach 1.2 terabytes.
Channel crossover into CE area
Ingram Micro Canada sees more growth in consumer electronics than any other IT area and as such has invested significantly towards being a gateway for both IT and CE VARs
Big ideas for small screens
Ways to make it easier to use handheld devices
Check Point upgrade nets more power
Overhaul of architecture means gateway has faster throughput, firm says
AMD shorted system builders
Edmonton’s Hard Data Ltd. has had trouble getting AMD Opteron processors since last fall for the high-end servers it builds for customers.
Exploring the oil & gas sector
Using technologies such as sofware as a service, solution providers are finding markets in the oil patch to solve problems ranging from an aging workforce to consolidation of data
Displaying success
When a courier chain of more than 300 stores needed a digital sign solution, CCi had the answer – but it wasn’t only the technology that won the deal