Sharon Linsenbach

New research commissioned by Symantec shows a wealth of opportunities for solution providers to help customers with equipment, services and strategies for going green.As recently as twelve months ago, many organizations might have placed green IT close to the bottom of their list of technology priorities. Now, however, new research shows that Green IT is […]

Web 2.0 Push will debut as an integrated feature in Citrix’s flagship NetScaler product line, says Greg Smith, director of product marketing for Citrix. In addition to performance and utilization rate improvements, Smith says Web 2.0 Push can also help solution providers reduce the number of servers customers need in their data center as well […]

Managed services providers (MSPs) usually thrive in times of economic downturn, as customers look for desktop and server management solutions that can help cut costs, increase efficiency and ease data center management and monitoring burdens. But as these services become more commoditized, there’s less value for customers in these solutions. PacketTrap has introduced a software […]

New research commissioned by Symantec shows a wealth of opportunities for solution providers to help customers with equipment, services and strategies for going green.As recently as 12 months ago, many organizations might have placed green IT close to the bottom of their list of technology priorities. Now, however, new research shows that green IT is […]

It’s been more than 10 years since the first ERP boom swept through corporate America, changing the face of IT departments large and small. With that reflection comes a scary realization for many companies-regardless of current economic conditions, it’s time to upgrade or replace aging ERP systems.“Many companies are still limping along on outdated legacy […]

Online backup software provider Vembu has unveiled a number of new partnerships with leading cloud storage providers, allowing solution providers incredible flexibility to offer online backup solutions to customers regardless of which cloud storage delivery platform they use. Vembu’s StorGrid Service Provider Edition of its StorGrid online backup software is tailored specifically for solution providers […]

Chris Spain, vice president of product management and technical marketing in Juniper’s Ethernet products group, says that with the launch of Juniper’s new EX 8216 switch, solution providers now have a solution specifically built to handle customers’ needs for increased performance and simplicity in cloud computing deployments. The EX 8200 line, which includes the 16-slot […]

During a Webinar and press briefing from the vendor’s annual Synergy 2009 users conference in Las Vegas, vice president and chief marketing officer Wes Wasson detailed Citrix’s new and upgraded lineup of software and services, which he says are targeted toward a do-it-yourself model much like that of broadcast media and consumer applications such as […]

In an economic climate where “Hello, can I interest you in upgrading your servers?” won’t get solution providers very far, an MXLogic study finds that VARs are finding success leading with managed services to help customers cut costs and increase efficiencies.“You just can’t walk into a CIO’s office anymore with a pitch to upgrade their […]

The U.S. government has been very good to AMD in the past, using AMD’s 64-bit Opteron chip in many high-performance computing deployments funded from government sources. As legislators begin to spend the nearly $800 billion stimulus money on a variety of projects, vendors and solution providers are gearing up in preparation. According to industry analysts, […]

Citrix’s new Web 2.0 Push technology aims to combat server overload and sprawl caused by Web 2.0 applications by offloading Web 2.0 workloads, thereby freeing up bandwidth for line-of-business applications and improving performance and utilization rates.Web 2.0 Push will debut as an integrated feature in Citrix’s flagship NetScaler product line, says Greg Smith, director of […]

EMC’s new Symmetrix V-Max and V-Max SE storage arrays are based on a Virtual Matrix Architecture that EMC said can scale up to hundreds of thousands of terabytes of storage, and is capable of supporting hundreds of thousands of virtual machines. V-Max and V-Max SE are designed for large enterprise data centers and server virtualization […]