Michael Vizard

SAP today at Cebit announced that it has significantly expanded its alliance with Intl to create a set of modular servers for system builders that will come with Novell’s Suse Linux and SAP’s MaxDB pre-installed alongside SAP’s Business All-in-One software for the small to medium business market. According to SAP, this program will on average […]

The president of European Union called for major legislative reforms to spark innovation during an address at the opening of the Cebit conference in Hannover, Germany. Instead of waiting for a technology revolution that force change, Juan Manuel Barroso said the European Union needs to make reforms now that would drive both investments in education […]

10 Things the Next President Should Do About IT 10 Things the Next President Should Do About IT – Launch a Massive Retraining Program for IT Workers Employers everywhere are complaining about a general lack of IT workers with the skills they need. There is a large pool of IT workers out there; it- 10 […]

If ever it was the best of times and the worst of times for solution providers, it’s now. An exclusive survey of CIOs by The Channel Insider and its sister publication, CIO Insight, will reveal at the Ziff Davis Enterprise Channel Summit in Dallas Feb. 7 that while application services are the most used services […]

BEA Timeline BEA is founded by Bill Coleman, Ed Scott and Alfred Chuang–all of whom left Sun Microsystems to start the company by acquiring Information Management and Independence Technologies. The latter company resold the Tuxedo online transaction processing system, which was owned by Novell and originally developed by AT&T. Coleman, Scott and Chuang lent their […]

One of the thornier issues that the channel as a whole is going to have to come to terms with now that Dell has a formal channel program is the company’s growing footprint as a distributor. Beyond selling millions of machines, Dell also resells, among other things, storage products from EMC; virtualization software from VMware […]

When you consider the number of platitudes that channel executives tend to throw around about their support for the channel and the actual amount of vendor support there is for managed services today, you cant help but wonder if most of the vendors really are that clueless or just cant seem to get out of […]

TAMPA—Apple Co-founder Steve Wozniak says one of the primary emerging technologies that is capturing his imagination these days is area of robotics and how artificial intelligence will be applied on those types of systems. Wozniak said he hopes that someday the robotics field will take a page from the personal computer era by creating robots […]

Recent acquisitions by both Dell and Hewlett-Packard are probably giving solution providers across the spectrum cause for pause as they contemplate the ambitions that major vendors are beginning to harbor towards managed services. As everyone knows by now, Dell moved to acquire SilverBack Technologies, a provider of a platform for managed services that has relied […]

For years, solution providers have complained about the complexity of trying to first build a solution and then craft a deal across all the different business units of IBM. For many small solution providers focused on the small and midsize business market, all that complexity meant that the cost of doing business with IBM was […]

For as long as anybody can remember, Microsoft has always been pregnant in one form or another in the sense that there is always some great new product launch just over the horizon that spells great opportunity for the channel. But as we consider the news out of the Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference in Denver […]