Channel Tech Center

Security has become a cost of networking. Whereas security was once considered a completely separate discipline, it’s becoming increasingly clear that vendors are responding to customer demands for a more integrated approach.
Evidence of this convergence abounds. Security software vendors are lined up to port their wares to network infrastructure platforms from companies such as Hewlett-Packard, [...]

Anybody selling IT infrastructure in the channel these days knows that great change is upon us. There is a shift towards pre-integrated servers that come complete with storage and switches that are being heavily promoted under the concept of data center convergence. The basic idea is that if all these IT infrastructure components are pre-integrated, [...]

Over the years IT organizations have deployed appliances to handle all kinds of specific tasks on the network, ranging from security to application acceleration. But too much of a good thing has resulted in a Byzantine maze of appliances at the edge of the network that have become cumbersome and costly to manage.
In the meantime, [...]

Unless you’re been away somewhere for a very long time, you’re aware that VMware and Citrix are now locked in mortal combat over which company is going to control the future of desktop virtualization.
Arguably, Citrix is the incumbent because of its long history with terminal services. But VMware has been coming on strong in its [...]

Although the economy may have just started to recover, there have been some fundamental advances in data center technology driven by virtualization that all the major system vendors are in the process of addressing.
Just this past week we saw Cisco line up with VMware and EMC to create pre-packaged sets of offerings for the data [...]

Over the past several years two distinct management cultures have grown up inside the IT organization. The first is the traditional IT organization’s team of people dedicated to the managing on the physical infrastructure. The second group is a raft of highly trained IT professionals focused on virtual machines.
As long as IT organizations view virtualization [...]

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 [...]

Given the fact that Oracle is about to close on its acquisition of Sun Microsystems, solution providers in the channel might have found it out this week to see Oracle cozying up to Hewlett-Packard on the subject of data center convergence.
At Oracle OpenWorld, Oracle announced application support for the integrated BladeSystem Matrix from HP. For [...]

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 [...]