Michael Vizard

The networking giant used Cebit as a platform to shakeup the networking world with the launch of a new router that aggregates many network services, including security and switching, on single platform. Built on top of a custom ASIC processor that Cisco spent over $100 million to develop, the Aggregation Services Router 1000 series runs […]

Yahoo may be down but it’s far from out when it comes to innovation on the Web. At the Cebit conference Yahoo launched a major new addition to its mobile phone platform that provides users with a contextual search capability that appears to be significantly more advanced than anything currently offered by Google or Microsoft. […]

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 […]