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, [...]
On January - 19 - 2010 Blogs Channel Tech Outlook Data Center
One of the things that drives a customer into the arms of solution providers more easily than anything else is anything to do with managing ongoing IT operations. Every customer out there falls in love with one application or another, but when it comes to living with that application they inevitably want somebody else to [...]
On November - 30 - 2009 Blogs Business Applications Channel Tech Outlook Data Center Managed Services Virtualization
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 [...]
On October - 26 - 2009 Blogs Channel Tech Outlook Data Center Virtualization
Backup is becoming more important than ever as storage needs grow. The traditional methods used to backup servers and workstations are starting to fall behind the times and lack critical options to improve efficiency, speed and restoration capabilities. Acronis meets those needs with a new family of products that combines efficiency and ease of use with imaging to meet most any size organization.
On October - 20 - 2009 Product Reviews
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 [...]
On October - 12 - 2009 Blogs Channel Tech Outlook Data Center Infrastructure Networking Storage Virtualization
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 [...]
On October - 11 - 2009 Data Center Tech Bites Virtualization
All those solution providers that thought they would never live to see the day when Red Hat and Microsoft would agree to anything have now officially been proven wrong.
In what could prove to be a major opportunity for solution providers, Red Hat and Microsoft have delivered on promise to enable each other’s operating systems to [...]
On October - 8 - 2009 Blogs Channel Tech Outlook Data Center Open Source Virtualization
From a solution provider’s perspective, desktop virtualization can represent a trip down the proverbial rabbit hole because there are so many different options.
Options include traditional terminal services approaches, new virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) based on virtual machine software running on the server, the deployment of virtual machine software on the client, stream application virtualization and [...]
On October - 6 - 2009 Blogs Channel Tech Outlook Virtualization
With the news that Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) is finally getting around to consolidating all of its various channels, there’s one new nugget in the AMD program that could really help make AMD partners more competitive.
As part of the AMD program, the company’s best partners will now gain early access to new and emerging AMD [...]
On September - 30 - 2009 Data Center GreenIT Tech Bites Virtualization
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