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Digest: News from Sun, Emulex, Atempo, Storactive, Habeas, StrongMail, SiliconSystems, Spare Backup
Sun and Emulex team on storage solutions, Atempo agrees to resell Storactive’s data protection software, and Habeas and StrongMail try to improve e-mail delivery. Meanwhile, SiliconSystems expands its channel into Europe and Spare Backup establishes a reseller network for the first time. Sun to Sell Sun-Branded Fibre Channel HBAs from Emulex Sun Microsystems Inc. and…
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Ingram Micro Acquires Home-Automation Products Distributor
Distributor Ingram Micro Inc. will pay up to $200 million for a consortium of 12 distributors that sell home-automation products for custom installations. The acquisition of AVAD Distributors will allow Ingram Micro, of Santa Ana, Calif., the world’s largest IT products distributor, to deeply entrench itself in the fast-growing home technology integration market. AVAD last…
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Security Opportunities Abound for VARs
The term “security” is thrown around frequently in the IT channel these days, and with good reason. Security is one of the most promising business opportunities for VARs, integrators and service providers. But figuring out how to seize the opportunity is where it gets complicated. The perception of many end users notwithstanding, security is not…
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HDS Delivers High-End Storage, Management to Midsize Market
In an effort to reduce the complexity and cost associated with managing and storing data, Hitachi Data Systems on Monday unveiled the midrange offspring of some of its enterprise-level products. HDS’ rack-mounted TagmaStore Network Storage Controller model NSC55, available now, incorporates the features of the Santa Clara, Calif.-based developer’s Universal Storage Platform, such as its…
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An Alternative to Cost Cutting
Outsourcers can employ technology to gain a competitive advantage, rather than rely strictly on cost-cutting measures to do so. That’s the message of Irfhan Rajani, chief executive officer of Apparent Networks Inc. The software company’s flagship AppareNet product is designed to help organizations identify network bottlenecks that impede application performance. Apparent Networks last week inked…
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Ballmer: Microsoft Wants a Bigger Piece of the Software, Services Pie
MINNEAPOLIS—Microsoft may love its partners. But that isn’t stopping the company from continuing to encroach on areas that have traditionally been its partners’ turf. At the final day of Microsoft’s worldwide partner conference here on Sunday, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer kicked off his morning keynote with repeated shouts of “I love you, partners!” But shortly…
