Top Ten Takeaways from HP APC

LAS VEGAS--Hewlett-Packard's Americas Partner Conference was chock-full of threads this week. Here's what bubbled to the top. 1: The jury's still out on whether new HP CEO Leo...
MSPAlliance dreams up service provider certification

One of the toughest tasks for any technology solution provider is building trust with would-be customers. The job gets even tougher when you are asking a business to entrust certain pieces of their IT infrastructure to the so-called "cloud." Can the service provider REALLY guarantee service levels?...
HP APC: Leo’s here, how’d he do?

LAS VEGAS--Hewlett-Packard VARs have had their knickers in a twist since the unceremonious departure of HP CEO Mark Hurd in August and the subsequent hiring of Leo Apotheker as CEO a few months later.
HP partner wish list

LAS VEGAS--As the Hewlett-Packard Americas Partner Conference convenes here Monday, HP VARs and integrators have a lot of questions for the new management. Here, based on a totally unscientific survey, is what they want to hear from HP. 1: What's the HP cloud plan? Be...
Oracle software biz soars but hardware remains a mystery

Both Oracle co-presidents were upbeat on yesterday's third quarter earnings call--flaunting 37% revenue growth to $8.8 billion compared to the year-ago figures. Sales of new software licenses rose a healthy 29% to $2.2 billion compared to the comparable-quarter last year. ...
OnForce founder launches new labor resources venture, Work Market

Jeffrey Leventhal, founder of OnForce, the self-described marketplace for orchestrating computer repair services, has surfaced as the founder of what he is calling a "labor resource platform" called Work Market. The new...
Oracle, HP spatting again

Okay, someone's gonna have to separate these two. Oracle and Hewlett-Packard are at it again and this act is starting to wear thin. Continued »
Solution provider proves that sometimes, it’s OK to be red-faced

Yesterday, while I was poking around on Facebook researching potential stories ideas from my newsfeed, a rather random item popped up from managed service provide Evolve Technologies: Actually, it was a random photo that popped up on the Fairfax, Va.-based...
Adrian Jones surfaces at Oracle

It's not really announced yet but Adrian Jones, once the channel chief at Hewlett-Packard, is now at Oracle Corp.
HP to host app store for enterprises

Today's HP Summit has been heavy on buzzwords and light on details, but there is now some verification that Hewlett-Packard plans to build a "cloud-based" (what else?) store for enterprise applications. HP, which already launched Infrastructure-as-a-Service for enterprise customers will offer...