July 29, 2011 12:43 PM
Posted by: badarrow
Adrian Jones,
Barbara Darrow,
Hewlett-Packard,
HP,
IT channel products and services,
IT channel products and technologies,
Larry Ellison,
Leo Apotheker,
Mark Hurd,
Oracle,
Ray LaneOracle is demanding that Hewlett-Packard drop its trade-secret-theft suit against Adrian Jones.
Jones, a former channel chief and sales...
July 26, 2011 6:08 PM
Posted by: badarrow
Barbara Darrow,
Bob Muglia,
IT channel products and services,
IT channel products and technologies,
Juniper Networks,
Kevin Johnson,
MicrosoftBob Muglia, the respected exec who led Microsoft's gigantic server and tools business as well as Azure, has surfaced. At Juniper Networks.
July 22, 2011 7:29 AM
Posted by: Heather Clancy
1E,
Avocent,
Channel,
data center,
data center infrastructure management,
DCIM,
Emerson Network Power,
Heather Clancy,
VAR,
Viridity SoftwareEarlier this month, I wrote about the dynamic data center infrastructure management (DCIM) space, and opportunities for IT solution providers related to this space.
July 13, 2011 11:39 PM
Posted by: badarrow
Colin Steele,
IT channel products and services,
IT channel products and technologies,
Microsoft World,
Windows PhoneBy Colin Steele, Senior Site Editor
LOS ANGELES – “The Windows you know” is back.
Microsoft used the slogan to push Hyper-V, pointing out that Windows admins won’t have to learn any extra skills to manage the hypervisor. Now the company is making the same case for another product with...
July 13, 2011 5:33 PM
Posted by: badarrow
Barbara Darrow,
Bing,
Cisco,
Google,
IT channel products and services,
IT channel products and technologies,
Microsoft,
Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference,
Steve Ballmer,
Steven SinofskyLOS ANGELES--Here are some threads floating around Microsoft's Worldwide Partner Conference that you won't see hear in any keynote.
1: If Steve Ballmer's out, who's in?
Don't get me wrong. This partner crowd is not Wall Street -- there are no torches and pitchforks. But they...
July 11, 2011 9:25 PM
Posted by: badarrow
Barbara Darrow,
Hewlett-Packard,
HP,
IT channel products and services,
IT channel products and technologies,
Stephen DeWitt,
Stephen DiFranco,
Todd BradleyThere's more moving and shaking at Hewlett-Packard. Today the company named Stephen Dewitt, formerly head of the Personal Systems Group to SVP and GM of HP's closely-watched WebOS global business.
Stephen DiFranco, is stepping into Dewitt's slot at PSG. DiFranco will continue to lead HP's...
July 11, 2011 8:37 PM
Posted by: badarrow
Colin Steele,
IT channel products and services,
IT channel products and technologies,
Microsoft Worldwide Partner ConferenceBy Colin Steele
LOS ANGELES -- Here's a numerical look at some of the factoids tossed around at today's Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference keynote:
12,000: Partners in attendance
640,000: Microsoft partner organizations around the world
15 million: Employees working for those...
July 4, 2011 9:34 PM
Posted by: badarrow
Azure,
Barbara Darrow,
Dynamics,
IT channel products and services,
IT channel products and technologies,
Microsoft,
Microsoft Worldwide Partner ConferenceBy Pat Ouellette and Barbara Darrow, ITChannel Staff
VARs heading into the Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference next week have a lot of questions for the software giant. They want clarification of its cloud message and they need...
June 30, 2011 2:26 PM
Posted by: badarrow
Barbara Darrow,
Exadata,
Exalogic,
Exastack,
IT channel products and services,
IT channel products and technologies,
Judson Althoff,
Oracle,
Sun hardwareFor big software companies these days, it's about stacks.
The latest is Oracle Exastack. This is Oracle's effort to get third-party software vendors to optimize their applications to run on Oracle's Exadata and Exalogic data center...
