September 16, 2008 11:53 AM
Posted by: Bcournoyer
Microsoft,
News,
Virtualization,
VMwareLAS VEGAS -- Microsoft has a booth here at VMworld 2008, but they’re not being a very good guest in VMware’s house.
On my way through the Venetian this morning, I...
September 15, 2008 9:00 PM
Posted by: rivkalittle
Enterprise applications,
Hewlett-Packard,
IBM,
Information technology services,
Networking technology,
News,
Server virtualization,
VirtualizationHewlett-Packard (HP) said Monday that it will reduce its workforce by 7.5 -- or nearly 25,000 jobs -- as it restructures to work Electronic Data Systems (EDS) into the fold. The $13.9 billion acquisition...
September 15, 2008 5:05 PM
Posted by: Bcournoyer
News,
Reseller channel business development,
VMwareLAS VEGAS -- VMware channel executives spent this morning at VMworld 2008 encouraging partners to take advantage of the vendor's channel programs, promising margins as high as 29% in some cases.
Carl Eschenbach, executive vice president of worldwide field operations, told 2,200 Partner Day...
September 15, 2008 11:57 AM
Posted by: Bcournoyer
Cisco,
Hewlett-Packard,
IBM,
News,
Reseller channel business development,
Virtualization,
VMwareLAS VEGAS -- VMware announced nine new members of its Alliance Affiliate Initiative this morning during Partner Day, the kickoff to VMworld 2008.
The Alliance Affiliate Initiative gives VMware partners extra margins for selling other vendors' products along with VMware products. The nine new...
September 13, 2008 1:14 PM
Posted by: badarrow
Barbara Darrow,
Channel partner programs,
News,
Software as a service (SaaS),
Vendor partner business issuesNetSuite and one of its top reseller partners are on the outs. Skyytek Worldwide and NetSuite are ending their relationship as of Sept. 30, according to a "joint public statement" issued late Friday by
September 12, 2008 1:02 PM
Posted by: badarrow
Barbara Darrow,
Citrix Systems,
Microsoft,
News,
Server virtualization,
Virtualization,
VMware VMworld 2008 kicks off Monday and all through the blogs, lots of creatures are stirring with tales of a soon-to-be-announced Microsoft buyout of Citrix.
SearchITChannel.com's Colin Steele pinged me...
September 12, 2008 10:20 AM
Posted by: Bcournoyer
Channel partner programs,
Linux,
News,
NovellMore than a month after former channel chief Pat Bernard left Novell, the open source company has named her successor.
September 10, 2008 1:46 PM
Posted by: Bcournoyer
Dell,
Microsoft,
News,
VirtualizationDell made its big virtualization announcement today, and the channel is an important part of it -- despite the
September 9, 2008 8:18 AM
Posted by: Bcournoyer
EMC,
News,
Virtualization,
VMwareWow. Looks like all that speculation about bad blood between Joe Tucci and Diane Greene wasn't just true -- it was worse than people thought.
The New York Times today has an explosive story with the...
