November 12, 2009 6:26 AM
Posted by: Heather Clancy
cloud computing,
IT buyer market research,
IT products and channel,
TCO,
total cost of ownershipI've heard anecdotally that the biggest difference between the cloud computing craze and other hype cycles that came before it is that in the case of cloud technologies, real customers are asking real questions. Not so for other emerging technology areas, when solution providers had to foist their...
November 3, 2009 8:25 PM
Posted by: badarrow
Barbara Darrow,
BPOS,
Google,
Google Apps,
IT channel products and technologies,
MicrosoftSo, Google wins a big, prestigious $7.2 billion email account --for 30,000 Los Angeles municipal workers . Google Apps Premier is displacing Novell Groupwise there. But Google beat out the...
October 21, 2009 4:15 PM
Posted by: badarrow
Barbara Darrow,
channel advisory board,
Google,
IT channel products and technologies,
Microsoft,
Oracle,
public cloud,
SunVARs remain extremely cautious on public cloud computing and are obsessed with which vendor giants will remain standing after more expected M&A activity. Those are but two highlights of this quarter's SearchITChannel.com Advisory Board call. But there...
September 2, 2009 12:37 PM
Posted by: Heather Clancy
Add new tag,
Akkori,
channel program,
DataCore,
Virtual infrastructure,
Virtualization,
VMware,
VMworldI'm not at VMworld this week, but it seems like everyone else is, including Microsoft. So it's not surprising to me that some of the channel news that I've come across in the past couple of weeks is very much tied to activity at the conference. This post is about two of the vendors seeking to...
July 30, 2009 5:31 PM
Posted by: badarrow
Barbara Darrow,
cloud computing,
Google,
IT Channel,
IT channel products and technologies,
Microsoft,
Ray OzzieA former colleague, who has worked the tech beat for more than 20 years, had some interesting thoughts the other night on the new-look Microsoft under chief software architect Ray Ozzie.
His rant...
July 22, 2009 1:49 PM
Posted by: badarrow
atom-based servers,
Barbara Darrow,
Cisco,
cloud computing,
IT channel products and technologies,
Twitter,
Windows 7There's nothing like a channel advisory board call to recharge the batteries.
Here are the top five takeaways from SearchITChannel.com's quarterly call earlier this week:
First: It's probably a no-brainer, but solution providers expect a big hardware refresh to accompany the Windows 7...
July 13, 2009 12:05 PM
Posted by: badarrow
Barbara Darrow,
Google,
IT channel products and technologies,
Microsoft,
online advertising,
Razorfish
Microsoft is reportedly trying to sell off Razorfish, the digital ad service to a large consortium of advertising agencies. The Wall Street Journal reports that the company is trying to offload Razorfish--but with...
July 8, 2009 3:56 PM
Posted by: badarrow
.Net 4.0,
Azure,
Barbara Darrow,
Cloud Services,
IT channel products and technologies,
Microsoft,
Microsoft Gold partner,
Microsoft Worldwide Partner ConferenceA week before the expected roll out of the Microsoft Azure cloud services price and sales model, Microsoft has pulled back a key component service. A developer who had been working with Azure...
June 17, 2009 8:36 PM
Posted by: badarrow
Barbara Darrow,
Google,
Google Apps,
OutlookYou could see this coming down the pike.
Last week, Google announced Outlook synchronization for Google Apps--a very important addition for business email users. This week, Microsoft takes to it's...
