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| Jul 31 2010 4:11pm | SaaS and Cloud Stocks: Up 8% So Far In 2010 |
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| The VAR Guy has applied some polish to the SaaS 20 Stock Index, which tracks trends across SaaS and cloud computing stocks. From January 2010 through the end of July 2010, the SaaS 20 Stock Index has risen nearly 8 percent, despite a 1 percent drop f... more | |
| Jul 31 2010 4:12am | Six Channel Partner Blogs The VAR Guy Didn’t Write: July 30 |
| The VAR Guy spent most of this week at the Avnet Technology Solutions Partner Summit, where some alarming conversations took place. Now that our resident blogger is back home on Long Island's Gold Coast, here are six channel partner blog entries The ... more | |
| Jul 30 2010 11:24pm | Convirture Targets KVM, Xen Open Source Virtualization Mgmt |
| How can virtualization VARs and their end-customers manage open source hypervisors like KVM and Xen? Convirture, promoter of ConVirt technology, may have the answer. Here's why.... more | |
| Jul 30 2010 11:02pm | Norway Article Suggests iPhone 4 Issues Involve AT&T Network |
| Here's a new spin on the iPhone 4 antenna and signal reception issue: Norway's largest newspaper (think, The Wall Street Journal for Norway) suggests the iPhone 4 reception issues are related to AT&T's U.S. network rather than the iPhone 4 antenn... more | |
| Jul 30 2010 10:30pm | VM6: New Virtualization Partner? |
| We hear a lot of virtualization noise in the market. But VM6 has caught our attention. The reason: They've just launched a global channel partner program and VM6 claims to help end-customers leverage existing IT infrastructure. Here are some perspectives.... more | |
| Jul 30 2010 8:00pm | Cisco’s Jim Sherriff: The Channel is the Sweet Spot |
| Jim Sherriff's new role as head of Cisco Systems' U.S. and Canada channel strategy raised key question -- mainly, how does his enterprise experience qualify him to lead Cisco’s North American channel partners? I had the chance to take that question... more | |
| Jul 30 2010 7:59pm | SaaS: Arrow Promotes Verio Hosted Exchange, Hosted SharePoint |
| Hosted business solution provider Verio has inked a North American distribution deal with Arrow Enterprise Computing Solutions (Arrow ECS), connecting VARs with services like managed private servers, domain name registration, and Microsoft Exchange a... more | |
| Jul 29 2010 6:24pm | Health Care IT: Big Money or Big Hype? |
| Distributors and software companies continue to evangelize health care IT opportunities. But how quickly can new VARs generate profits after entering the health care vertical? Here are some stats, along with a look at some of the latest health care-r... more | |
| Jul 29 2010 5:55pm | Cisco, NetApp, VMware: Converging In the Data Center |
| Cisco and NetApp have unleashed their new end-to-end Fibre-Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) solution with VMware. It's designed for a so-called Dynamic Data Center. Perhaps not by coincidence, the trio are making their move the same week that Hewlett-Pac... more | |
| Jul 29 2010 4:10pm | Rackspace Cloud Servers for Windows Gets Updated |
| Hosting provider Rackspace Cloud has announced an update to their still-in-beta Cloud Servers for Windows offering, bringing snapshots and backups as well as enhanced scalability to the Microsoft-enabled cloud instance platform. Here’s the skinny.... more | |
| Jul 29 2010 4:00pm | SaaS: Zoho Launches Affiliate Partner Program |
| Google Apps competitor Zoho has launched an affiliate partner program. Can passive partners -- everyone from bloggers to SMB web site owners -- potentially profit from Zoho's new SaaS partner program? Here's some analysis.... more | |
| Jul 29 2010 3:28pm | Cisco Names Jim Sherriff U.S. and Canada Channel Chief |
| Cisco Systems, as The VAR Guy suspected, appears set to announce Jim Sherriff (pictured) as its new U.S. and Canada channel lead sometime today. Translation: Sherriff essentially becomes Cisco's North American Channel Chief, succeeding Wendy Bahr, wh... more | |
| Jul 29 2010 2:31pm | Do Sun Partners Really Need to Embrace Oracle Solutions? |
| Oracle continues to evangelize software solutions to Sun legacy partners. But do Sun partners need to specialize in Oracle databases, applications and middleware? The VAR Guy gathered some thoughts from Oracle VPs Tom Wagner and Jim Standard, plus Av... more | |
| Jul 29 2010 9:46am | The PC Is Not Dead; Long Live PCs |
| It seems like once a year an article or blog gets posted re-igniting the debate on the future of computing devices. Because I often speak about the future of technology, the topic is of great interest to me -- especially when it comes to the future of PCs.... more | |
| Jul 29 2010 2:53am | VMware Launches Volume License Solutions |
| VMware is launching a new Volume Purchasing Program, designed to make it simple for partners and virtualization customers to acquire discounted software licenses in bulk. It's not entirely straight forward, but VMware says they've made the licensing ... more | |
| Jul 29 2010 2:34am | Avnet’s Top Channel Partners: Who Are They? |
| The VAR Guy knows Avnet Technology Solutions works closely with a range of IT vendors. But which solutions providers work most closely with Avnet? And which of those channel partners are generating the most success? Here's a quick look at Avnet's partners of the year...... more | |
| Jul 29 2010 2:16am | Cisco vs. Oracle: Friends or Foes at Avnet Partner Summit? |
| Call it the latest example of coopetition. On some fronts, Cisco Systems and Oracle cooperate. But on other fronts, Cisco and Oracle increasingly compete. That reality is taking center stage this week during the Avnet Technology Solutions Partner ... more | |
| Jul 28 2010 9:00pm | Apptix Revamps SaaS Partner Program |
| Apptix, which provides hosted Microsoft Exchange and SharePoint messaging and collaboration to the enterprise, has announced a revamped partner program designed to help VARs meet the needs of businesses of all shapes and sizes. The company says the n... more | |
| Jul 28 2010 8:42pm | Apple Updates iMacs, Mac Pros, Displays And Introduces Magic Trackpad |
| It's Christmas in July, that is, if you're an Apple fan and you happen to celebrate Christmas. As we suspected yesterday, Apple has unleashed a new bunch of toys. iMacs and Mac Pros have new CPUs, the 24 inch LED Cinema Display now has a 27 inch brot... more | |
| Jul 28 2010 8:49am | Oracle CMT Servers: Outperforming Intel? |
| The VAR Guy spent most of today listening to Oracle's latest pitch to partners. The chatter occurred at Avnet Technology Solutions Partner Summit near Denver. Among the highlights: Some new competitive claims involving Sun's CMT (Chip Multi-threading... more |








