Channel Tech Center

One of the historic problems with unified communications is how disjointed this set of technologies has really been. Most customers are really still unsure what it means to unify their communications and the various components of unified communications solution don’t always work so seamless together.
But at the same time, interest in increasing the productivity of [...]

In a sign of the dominant role that technology specialization has come to play in the channel, Oracle today is kicking off an entire Oracle Partner Network online event dedicated to helping channel partners understand how to better navigate Oracle by specializing in various technology sectors.
By and large, being a partner of a large corporation [...]

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 [...]

All things being equal, the channel doesn’t see cloud computing and software-as-a-service as being two of the friendliest technology trends to emerge in the last few years. But as we all know by now, these trends are not going away. And when you get past the emotional issues associated with any fundamental shift to a [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

The only thing tougher than creating a composite application that spans multiple business processes is managing them.
Composite applications seek to integrate disparate applications under a common business process management (BPM) framework. Some times that work is done from the ground up as part of a custom application development project or customers may opt to leverage [...]