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Symantec, Citrix Unveil New VI Package
LAS VEGAS—Symantec introduced its new Veritas Virtual Infrastructure enterprise product—developed in concert with Citrix—June 10 at the company’s Vision user conference here at the Venetian Hotel. Veritas Virtual Infrastructure combines Symantec’s Veritas Storage Foundation storage management capabilities with the server operations of Citrix XenServer. This combination of technologies will give data center managers centralized control of…
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Netgear’s FVS336G Shows There’s Still Some Life Left in Selling Firewalls
Network security for a small business can be a funny thing. After all, small businesses need the same level of protection that is found in an enterprise, yet small businesses don’t have an enterprise budget, which creates a conundrum for VARs looking to secure those small-business customers. Netgear’s vision is to give small businesses good…
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VMware Faces Virtual Reality
A year after VMware’s successful IPO, virtualization has shifted gears from niche technology to the must-have underpinning for projects ranging from disaster recovery to data backup to desktop application delivery. It’s not surprising, then, that other companies are developing products for the market that VMware has been synonymous with up until now. So CEO Diane…
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Move Over, AJAX, Microsoft Pushing ARAX
Move over, AJAX; Microsoft is pushing a different scenario, known as Asynchronous Ruby and XML, or ARAX. At the RailsConf conference for Ruby on Rails developers in Portland, Ore., on May 30, John Lam, creator of the IronRuby project at Microsoft, told eWEEK that as Microsoft’s Silverlight rich Internet application environment takes off it will…
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Want to Make VOIP Portable? Plantronics Says Stick It in Your Ear!
It is no surprise that voice over IP is all the rage for business both big and small, and it is no surprise that VOIP can bring strong profits and ongoing revenue to VARs. But what is surprising is that an advanced technology such as VOIP is saddled with phones and handsets that came out…
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Boosting Revenue While Reducing Channel Conflict
Channel conflict is a dirty word for most reseller partners, but in a world where vendors are looking to squeeze the most out of all their sales channels, VARs sometimes end up butting heads with a vendor’s direct-sales reps. To help mitigate channel conflict at the same time it increases revenue opportunities across the board,…
