June 3, 2010 11:42 AM
Posted by: NicoleH
Arrow Fusion,
cloud computing,
cloud computing services,
Google,
HP,
Nicole Harding,
SearchITChannel.com,
SearchITChannel.com advisory board,
SearchSystemsChannel,
VMware
A few months ago, I wrote about the bright future of
April 26, 2010 10:09 PM
Posted by: badarrow
Barbara Darrow,
HP,
HP APC,
IT channel products and technologiesHewlett Packard's big partner confab kicks off in earnest in an hour or so with a keynote by Stephen DiFranco, Lynn Pendergrass, Randy Seidl, Stephen DeWitt. But here are some takeaways from morning meetings.
1: Most HP execs so far have been coy about if and how the Oracle-Sun data center...
February 23, 2010 8:43 PM
Posted by: badarrow
Add new tag,
Adrian Jones,
Barbara Darrow,
HP,
IT channel products and services,
Stephen DiFrancoChannel sources have speculated for months about who will replace Adrian Jones as top channel poobah at HP. In the last week, speculation narrowed down to candidates from IBM, but the winner looks to be...
February 19, 2010 9:20 AM
Posted by: badarrow
Barbara Darrow,
Channel partner programs,
Cisco,
data center hardware,
Hewlett-Packard,
HP,
IT products and services,
partner programCan't we all just get along?
Apparently not, if "we" is Cisco and Hewlett-Packard. The latest in the nasty HP vs. Cisco data center hardware battle is that Cisco is dumping HP, a long time partner but increasingly a rival, from its partner program.
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January 11, 2010 6:56 PM
Posted by: badarrow
Barbara Darrow,
Cisco,
Hewlett-Packard,
HP,
IT channel products and servies,
John Chambers,
Mark Hurd,
partner conferenceTalk about counter programming. Hewlett-Packard slated its partner conference directly opposite Cisco's previously planned partner summit.
Here's the VAR Guy's take on this move--which will put joint...
January 4, 2010 5:45 PM
Posted by: badarrow
Apple,
Barbara Darrow,
dotcom bust,
Google,
HP,
IBM,
iPhone,
IT channel products and services,
Microsoft,
Open-source,
Vista,
y2k bugFace it, the first decade of the 21st century was a bummer. As it closes, it's time for the obligatory look at the major IT stories of the aughts. Based on a completely unscientific survey of VARs and colleagues, here are the biggest stories of the that painful decade.
1: The fizz (and...
December 2, 2009 10:23 PM
Posted by: badarrow
Barbara Darrow,
Cisco,
enterprise,
HP,
IT channel products and services,
midmarket,
UCS,
Unified Computing SystemCIsco may have pitched its Unified Computing System (UCS) to the biggest of enterprises but smaller companies--typically mid-market players just dipping their toes into server virtualization...
November 18, 2009 1:17 AM
Posted by: Heather Clancy
cloud computing,
Hewlett-Packard,
HP,
IT channel products and servies,
schoolHewlett-Packard had a mega-briefing this week about thin client and client virtualization technology that I will be reporting on in greater depth, but one of the "products" that the company's partners should consider studying most closely is something called HP SchoolCloud.
November 11, 2009 9:58 PM
Posted by: badarrow
3Com,
Barbara Darrow,
Brocade,
Cisco,
HP,
IT channel products and technologies,
Juniper,
OracleDear lord. Hewlett-Packard says it's buying 3Com for $2.7 billion. The rationale is that 3Com's networking hardware would augment the HP ProCurve lineup. Really? Isn't there considerable overlap?
HP must be really, really serious about beating Cisco.
Marius Haas, senior VP of HP...
