Channel Marker
October 2010
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Microsoft makes Azure more palatable
- TechTarget 29 Oct 2010 -
If you're an MSP, are you a green MSP?
28 Oct 2010 -
Ellison reloads, fires again
- TechTarget 27 Oct 2010
Microsoft execs, including server and tools chief Bob Muglia, have long maintained that the Azure price model was sound and clear as a bell. This despite developers and other would-be Azure-ites ...
Here's a question for all you managed service providers (MSPs) out there: How green is your data center? Yes, I know, you don't care. But, increasingly, your larger customers might make this one of ...
Another missive from Oracle, attributed to Larry Ellison. The Oracle vs. HP (and SAP) battle continues. “HP Chairman Ray Lane has taken the position that Leo Apotheker is innocent of wrongdoing ...
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Charles Phillips surfaces at Infor
- TechTarget 27 Oct 2010 -
Ellison warns HP/Apotheker
- TechTarget 27 Oct 2010 -
Ray Ozzie sums up Microsoft services effort
- TechTarget 25 Oct 2010 -
Westcon helps data center solution providers take a LEAP
25 Oct 2010 -
Cloud steals the show at VMware user group event
- TechTarget 25 Oct 2010 -
MSP label tainted, pipelines in flux and other VAR takeaways
- TechTarget 22 Oct 2010 -
Ballmer announces two candidates for Ozzie position
- TechTarget 21 Oct 2010
That didn't take long. Charles Phillips is now CEO of Infor. The move comes less than two months since Phillips left Oracle -- just as Mark Hurd assumed the Oracle co-presidency that was once his. ...
Here's one of the weirder statements (attributable to Oracle CEO Larry Ellison) to hit reporters' mailboxes in recent decades: “A few weeks ago I accused HP’s new CEO, Leo Apotheker, of overseeing ...
Ray Ozzie's new "Dawn of a Day" blog entry takes stock of Microsoft's move into services and, not surpisingly, gives the company high marks for its Windows Live and other efforts. Ozzie, the ...
Data center technology distributor Westcon Group has opened its first LEAP Center in the United States. LEAP is an acronym that stands for Learn, Experience, Architect and Plan. As you might ...
At last week’s New England VMware User Group meeting in Atkinson, New Hampshire, there was no shortage of cloud talk. Guy Bowers, senior systems engineer for VMware, started off the morning with ...
The "managed service provider" moniker that used to be golden has actually become a deterrent to business, according to the SearchITChannel.com channel advisory board. "We dropped the MSP label--it ...
The names will surprise you. Or maybe not.
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Microsoft Live Meeting outage--that's gotta hurt
- TechTarget 20 Oct 2010 -
Ray Ozzie leaving Microsoft gig
- TechTarget 18 Oct 2010 -
Sun VARs get (temporary) reprieve from Oracle
- TechTarget 18 Oct 2010 -
Beware of sharing, beware of Facebook
- TechTarget 18 Oct 2010 -
Autodesk draws on simulation for channel sales training
14 Oct 2010
Microsoft Live Meeting went bust today. I know this because a partner event was cancelled this morning because of technical difficulties. According to the email header sent to partners, the event ...
Ray Ozzie is leaving his post at Microsoft, company CEO Steve Ballmer said today. In a memo to staff posted to the company's Web site, Ballmer wrote: "With our progress in services and the cloud ...
Sun VARs have been given another two weeks aboard the Oracle partner program to close deals before losing their ability to do so. Oracle had designated October 15 as the end of the Sun Partner ...
Granted, Facebook is addictive. Especially the Scrabulous/Scrabble part which is what got me hooked. For many others, Zynga's FarmVille, Mafia Wars game portfolio is the original hook. And for ...
When you consider that the average IT solution provider supports easily a dozen different vendor relationships, all the sales training that blossoms out of those contracts must blur together. ...