Archive for the ‘Channel Business’ Category

Juniper equipped its Junosphere cloud offering with added partnerships and a few platform enhancements, all aimed at facilitating greater ease of use for partners and accelerating adoption of cloud and virtual infrastructure for customers.

Newly released documents in the legal tit-for-tat between Hewlett-Packard and Oracle reveals HP once considered buying Sun Microsystems to replace its Itanium servers. The ongoing court battle is showing the channel how important published technology roadmaps are.

Unified communications – the integration of various forms of digital messaging in a single platform – remains of high interest among businesses, but adoption is still relatively low. A new CompTIA study finds the attachment of cloud and managed services may open the door for greater unified communications adoption.

At Enterasys SuperDrive 2012, partners are buzzing about the OneFabric networking portfolio while Enterasys celebrates its growth in the marketplace. Is Enterasys a rising star on the networking scene?

CA Technologies launches CA Process Automation 4, bringing a unified network automation platform for physical, virtual and cloud environments.

Spiceworks, the IT professional social network glued together by management tools and peer collaboration, recently added its 2 millionth member and saw user activity time jump more than 200 percent. This social network may be a tempest in a teapot for how its changing the way IT buyers and sellers interact.

Enterprise organizations have moved well past the acceptance phase to embrace the BYOD trend, creating swaths of opportunity for the channel to create holistic and scalable mobile security policies and management services for their customers.

Cisco is planning to roll out more cloud products, including its new Cloud Connect in June, to capitalize on this ever-expanding opportunity. However, its recently pessimistic outlook, says one insider, has more to do with cloud disruptions to its core networking business than global economics. It’s a rationale, noteworthy counterargument.

NetSuite launches the commerce-as-a-service platform “NetSuite SuiteCommerce,” enabling both retail and corporate sales outfits to enhance customer service and customer experiences through a fully integrated ERP/CRM solution.

Lenovo has claimed the number two spot in the PC manufacturing market and is looking to dethrone rival Hewlett-Packard by attacking the SMB market with new products and partner sales support. Driving this activity are incentives that just might work.