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If PC slump undid Symantec CEO, single-trick VARs should worry

March 24, 2014 Larry Walsh (Channelnomics) Comments Off

Declining antivirus sales brought on by the PC slump is given as the prime reason for Symantec’s firing of CEO Steve Bennett.

Luc Villeneuve, country manager, Red Hat Canada

Villeneuve to add Canadian resources for Red Hat

March 18, 2014 Robert Dutt Comments Off

New Red Hat Canada country manager Luc Villeneuve seeks to add resources to help manage partners in country, with ISVs and OEMs top on his to-do list.

HP adds cloud, mobile to app lifecycle tools

March 18, 2014 Robert Dutt Comments Off

HP adds support for cloud-based testing and better testing of mobile apps in its latest application lifecycle management offerings.

Donna Wittmann, exeuctive director, channels, alliances and commercial sales, VMware Canada

VMware launches VSAN for storage virtualization

March 17, 2014 Robert Dutt Comments Off

VMware calls its new Virtual SAN product the third pillar of the software-defined data centre, cementing its transformation to “virtualized everything.”

Andy Rhodes, general manager of Dell's Precision workstations

It’s time for workstations to go virtual: Dell

March 10, 2014 Robert Dutt Comments Off

Dell looks to advance the move of professional workstations into the data centre with new reference architectures and a data centre at its headquarters.

server sales are up, but revenues are not following

Server shipments up, revenues down in 2013

March 3, 2014 Larry Walsh (Channelnomics) Comments Off

Demand for servers is strong, but value is evaporating for the basic building blocks of data centers.

VMware Canada focuses on channel enablement

February 19, 2014 Robert Dutt Comments Off

Solution providers can expect “a very close alignment” with the whole Canadian organzation, channel chief Donna Wittmann says.

VMware CEO: Time to build “our second DNA”

February 18, 2014 Robert Dutt Comments Off

VMware needs to build a second identity, CEO Pat Gelsinger tells the company’s partners. And that identity needs to be services-centric.

VMware preps partners for software-defined enterprise

February 11, 2014 Robert Dutt Comments Off

Vmware kicks off Partner Exchange 2014 by making the case for partners to look beyond server virtualization to the “software-defined data centre.”

Peter Beardmore, senior director of global product marketing for Kaspersky

Kaspersky to expand virtualization footprint

February 11, 2014 Robert Dutt Comments Off

Kaspersky Lab looks to reach more partners with its Kaspersky Security for Virtualization offering by adding support for Microsoft and Citrix hypervisors.

virtualization