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Cisco Partners to Enable Branch Offices with Virtualization
Looking to help partners take Cisco’s virtualized networking environment from its big customers down into their branch offices to enable applications from Microsoft Office Communications Server to Cisco’s Telepresence, Cisco has updated its WAAS offering, introduced new Cisco Data Center 3.0 professional programs and services, and announced a handful of other updates. "We are bringing…
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Top Software Vendor ISV Partner Programs Rated
While Microsoft, IBM, Oracle, SAP and Salesforce.com each offer a channel program for ISV partners, not all programs are the alike, and partners should evaluate each carefully to find the best fit before they allocate their scarce resources to one or the other. A new study from Forrester Research called Choosing an ISV Partner Program…
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Cisco Extends Virtualization Reach
Cisco Systems wants to take the mystery out of virtualization. With virtualization spreading quickly from its roots as a server consolidation play into almost every aspect of IT—from storage to applications to desktops—Cisco is looking to rapidly grow its networking virtualization offerings. At its Cisco Live user conference June 24 in Orlando, Fla., company officials…
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Cisco’s Chambers Touts the Power of Collaboration
ORLANDO, Fla.—Cisco’s John Chambers has a bold vision for how to not only revolutionize IT but to fundamentally upset the way global business gets done. It’s an inspiring message on a number of levels, not the least of which is the fact that the plan won’t work without a great deal of support from a…
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Rackable to Seed the Cloud
Rackable Systems is providing new ways for enterprises to build out the cloud. The company, which is known for its high-density server and storage products and has been one of the leading advocates for building mobile data center containers, launched five new systems June 23 aimed at businesses looking to build out their computing capacity…
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Symantec Bundles New Data Center Suite
Symantec has bundled a management software package that combines the Big Three requirements of data center management into one product: systems management, endpoint security and backup/recovery. Using in a single management console, Symantec said June 23 that it has packaged Altiris Client Management Suite 6, Symantec Endpoint Protection 11.0, and Backup Exec System Recovery 8 Desktop…