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Lenovo acquisition of Motorola finally done

October 30, 2014 Mark Cox Comments Off

The completion of the acquisition of Motorola Mobility will allow Lenovo to provide North American partners with smartphones for the first time. But don’t look for them to provide BlackBerry devices any time soon.

Pure Storage joins OpenStack Foundation, announces two OpenStack solutions

October 30, 2014 Mark Cox Comments Off

Pure sees OpenStack as providing a great services opportunity to help customers adapt OpenStack for private clouds, since it is necessary to help them adapt OpenStack to different customer circumstances.

How do your know when a customer is ready for the Cisco Business Edition 6000?

October 29, 2014 Guest Poster Comments Off

Cisco Canada’s Garth Scully offers a guide to help find the right customer for the company’s Business Edition 6000 communications package.

Skyera brings second generation of dense skyHawk flash array to market

October 29, 2014 Mark Cox Comments Off

In addition to being lightweight and energy efficient, the new skyhawk FS offers price parity with HDD systems “without tricks”, at $2.99 per GB.

Intel Security CTO: Partners have to understand customer limitations

October 28, 2014 Robert Dutt Comments Off

Intel Security CTO Mike Fey says partners who can work around customers’ infrastructure and budget limitations will prosper, urges upsale model.

Intel Security brass calls for greater solutions focus

October 28, 2014 Robert Dutt Comments Off

Intel Security leaders say the company has done a good job in integrating products together into solutions, but there’s still a long way to go.

Unify brings Project Ansible to market as Circuit SaaS collaboration tool

October 28, 2014 Mark Cox Comments Off

Circuit brings together voice, video, screen sharing, messaging, and file sharing within a single interface, with extreme simplicity of use.

Lisa Matherly, vice president of worldwide partner programs, marketing, and operations at Intel Security

Intel Security renames, revamps McAfee Partner Program

October 27, 2014 Robert Dutt Comments Off

McAfee rebrands partner program under the Intel Security name, announces new names for partner tiers and evolving certification and training requirements.