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
It is more than likely that HP’s channel partners will be on the front line engineering HP’s conquests.
On November - 12 - 2009 Profitable Technology
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
NetScout Systems has extended the visibility of its popular performance management tools to include support for virtual machines from VMware.
The addition of virtual machine support means that solution providers in the channel that rely on NetScout management software can use the same tools to track network traffic regardless of whether the application resides on a [...]
On October - 9 - 2009 Infrastructure Networking 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
An easy-to-use security application that includes anti-virus and intrusion protection that is very affordable and accessible for small business networks.
We tested RC of v12 on a small network running Windows Server 2003 and XP machines.
Pros: Simple to install and to setup default automatic protection, reports easy to understand, priced competitively with anti-virus only solutions
Cons: Only [...]
On September - 28 - 2009 Data Center Resource Videos Review Video Security
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.
On September - 25 - 2009 Product Reviews
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