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At InterOp yesterday, Sony Erickson put on display for the world to see their newest Android based phone, the Xperia X10. Definitely in the “i-Phone killer” class the Xperia showcases a beautiful screen that displays 65k colors on a 4 inch TFT touch screen which gives a larger and crisper image then the i-phone.

Spec wise, [...]

CA plans to release update versions of its application management tools for mainframes and distributed computing environments that for the first time will let solution providers in the channel integrate these offerings to create a holistic view of the enterprise.
CA is rolling out an umbrella offering called Cross Application Performance Management (CrossAPM) that integrates new [...]

Nimsoft has given solution providers in the channel a tool that may finally allow many of them to start making some money off of cloud computing.
IT organizations looking to embrace cloud computing require tools that allow them to monitor the ongoing performance of a cloud computing service. To fulfill that need, Nimsoft has expanded the [...]

In a move that may come as a shock to the entire channel, but a distributor is actually doing some real engineering.
Avnet has partnered with Scale Computing to integrate a storage cluster offering directly with an IBM System X server to create a new appliance offering.
Besides the fact that Avnet did the engineering work, the offering [...]

It may be one of the more simple ideas to come down the pike in awhile, but it may also prove to be extraordinarily helpful to solution providers in the channel.
NComputing has come up with a way to plug thin clients into a server via a Universal Serial Bus (USB), thereby eliminating the need to [...]

In a move that most Sophos partners in the channel will love and rivals will hate, the well-known purveyor of anti-virus software is moving to bundle data loss prevention (DLP) software for free with its anti-virus software.
As part of an effort to expand its footprint in the market, Sophos is using the same agent technology [...]

As part of an effort to pull together an end-to-end solution for digital signage, Hewlett-Packard has rolled out a new 42-inch display that allows customers to use touch to interact with images on the screen.
HP has been steadily filling out its digital signage portfolio with an eye towards providing a complete range of devices ranging [...]

When it comes to scaling up the performance of database applications, IBM wants solution providers to dynamically throw Power server hardware at the problem.
IBM has launched a DB2 pureScale implementation that borrows virtualization technology originally developed for IBM mainframes and makes it available in a version of DB2 that can now dynamically scale as new [...]

Although speculation about the potential impact of 4G wireless networks garners most of the attention these days, it looks like Long Term Evolution (LTE) networks may create more opportunities for solution providers in the channel a lot sooner.
Alcatel-Lucent has expanded its LTE ecosystem with the addition of five vendors, including a partnership with Gemalto that [...]

The integration of data loss prevention (DLP) tools and encryption seems like such a natural that you can’t help but wonder why we have not seen more of it.
With the release of version 6 of its namesake DLP tools, Proofpoint has added support for automatic encryption of data that the DLP system identifies as being [...]