October 18, 2008 7:15 PM
Posted by: rivkalittle
Application development,
Channel partner programs,
Direct reseller channel conflict,
Enterprise applications,
Information technology services,
IT channel products and technologies,
Managed services providers,
News,
Reseller channel business development,
Rivka Little,
Software as a service (SaaS),
VAR training, certification,
Vendor partner business issuesSan Diego -- Ingram Micro CEO Greg Spierkel faced a funny question from partners at the VentureTech Network (VTN) conference here Thursday morning: “What do we do that drives you crazy?”
Spierkel’s answer?
“Buying from my competitors.”
October 16, 2008 9:32 AM
Posted by: Bcournoyer
Colin Steele,
News,
Software as a service (SaaS),
Symantec,
VAR training, certificationWASHINGTON, D.C. -- Symantec kicked off Partner Engage 2008 today by announcing two new partner programs: Symantec University for Partners and the
October 10, 2008 9:32 AM
Posted by: badarrow
Barbara Darrow,
Data storage management,
Information technology services,
Microsoft,
News,
Software as a service (SaaS)Amazon Web Services LLC is "tiering" the pricing on its hosted storage system.
Amazon Simple Storage Service (or S3) in the U.S. had charged 15 cents per gigabyte of stored data. That rate will hold for the first 50 terabytes but now as you...
October 2, 2008 10:30 AM
Posted by: Bcournoyer
Colin Steele,
Google,
Microsoft,
News,
Software as a service (SaaS),
VMwareFor much of this year, Microsoft has been trying to convince people that it's serious about Software as a Service (or "
October 1, 2008 10:03 AM
Posted by: badarrow
Barbara Darrow,
Leading technology vendors,
Microsoft,
News,
Software as a service (SaaS)So Amazon.com dropped a bomb today. In a short email, the company told reporters that Windows and Microsoft SQL Server will be running soon in Amazon's Elastic Computing Cloud (EC2.) This is very very big news. EC2 is famously non-Windows oriented, much...
September 24, 2008 1:27 PM
Posted by: badarrow
Barbara Darrow,
Direct reseller channel conflict,
Enterprise applications,
IT channel products and technologies,
Leading technology vendors,
Oracle,
Software as a service (SaaS),
Vendor partner business issues1: Trade shows aren't dead. (Sorry Rivka.) The crowds at Moscone Center ---ALL of Moscone Center -- are bigger than remembered. Of course it's been two years since I covered the event and in that time,...
September 22, 2008 1:10 PM
Posted by: badarrow
Barbara Darrow,
Collaboration software,
IT channel products and technologies,
News,
Oracle,
Software as a service (SaaS),
VirtualizationIt looks like Oracle is embracing "the cloud."
At Oracle OpenWorld on Monday, the two Chucks -- Oracle president Charles Phillips and executive vice president Chuck Rozwat--said Oracle is making...
September 21, 2008 11:58 AM
Posted by: rivkalittle
Application development,
Cisco,
Collaboration software,
Email -- Exchange, Outlook,
Enterprise applications,
IBM,
Microsoft,
Networking technology,
News,
Novell,
Open-source,
Software as a service (SaaS)Cisco Systems has acquired open source instant messaging and presence company Jabber less than a month after it picked up e-mail and calendaring software provider PostPath. The move signifies Cisco’s ongoing moves to reach out of the network and onto the desktop.
Terms of the deal have not yet...
September 18, 2008 11:56 AM
Posted by: badarrow
Barbara Darrow,
Channel partner programs,
Direct reseller channel conflict,
News,
Software as a service (SaaS),
Vendor partner business issuesAs with any divorce, there are a number of factors behind the imminent split between NetSuite and Skyytek, one of the largest, if not the largest,
