Wednesday, September 01, 2010 2:53 PM/EST
Intuit has shuttered its Quicken Online offering, telling account holders to go try Mint.com instead, but giving them no easy way to migrate their existing data. The incident points out a weakness of the cloud model. What do you do when your service provider takes away your service?
Tuesday, August 31, 2010 2:49 PM/EST
Look out, Cisco. One of your best partners, VMware, just struck a closer deal with your biggest rival, HP. The integration deal between HP and VMware provide data center reference architectures as well as system management integration that lets administrators view the physical and virtual together.
Monday, August 30, 2010 12:18 PM/EST
Intel's buy of Infineon's wireless business, which includes ARM-based processors, for $1.4 billion seems like deja vu all over again. Four years ago Intel sold its ARM-based XScale processor business to Marvell for $600 million. What a difference a few years makes.
Friday, July 16, 2010 3:21 PM/EST
By hitching a ride on Microsoft's cloud, are channel partners displacing themselves? Will Microsoft own the customer and create channel conflict? Or will IT solution providers' concerns be allayed by offerings such as the Microsoft Partner Profitability Modeler Tool?
Tuesday, May 11, 2010 4:45 PM/EST
eWeek Labs' new community lets IT solution providers and other experts add their own reviews to the mix. Read about another company's experience with that particular product you are considering. Or share your experience to both help the next guy and promote your business as a trusted advisor.
Monday, May 03, 2010 6:00 AM/EST
The day before HP announced plans to acquire smartphone vendor Palm, Cisco channel executives made a point of showcasing their use of Apple mobile devices, the iPhone and the iPad. Coincidence? The war between the two technology giants will be fought from the most advanced server down to the most mobile device.
Friday, April 30, 2010 3:28 PM/EST
Can you be vendor-agnostic and go with the brand the customer wants? Or do you have to choose sides and declare loyalty to either Cisco or HP? The vendors want you to pick sides, and word from the field is they are making it painful for partners that don't.
Friday, April 16, 2010 1:21 PM/EST
Recession or not, recovery or not, one of the IT job skill areas that is always in demand is security. And if it's in demand, that generally means it pays better, too.
Wednesday, April 07, 2010 11:41 AM/EST
Dell says it's a mistake for customers to hand over their data center infrastructure to a single vendor, recalling the old best-of-breed vs. single-vendor, integrated solution argument. Which way will you go?
Tuesday, April 06, 2010 10:43 AM/EST
Google has put the focus on its resellers lately, recently featuring a guest blog post by one at the Google Enterprise Blog. Check out his story of why he signed up with Google and his philosophy of the cloud.