Channel Tech Center

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, [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Oracle and IBM have been locked in a struggle for control over the high-end database market since time began. And while most of this fighting could be characterized as trench warfare that Oracle has largely been winning, the nature of the combat is starting to change substantially.
As Oracle becomes a more feared competitor in the [...]

PureDisk V6.5.1 offers de-duplication, simple policy management and bandwidth optimization features that should make it an easy choice for solution providers to sell into the data center.