Needs partners to help address $90 billion market opportunity Tags: PartnerWorld, social media, CIOs, solution providers, CMOs, channel, Smarter Commerce, IBM Read More

Tries to motivate partners to sell both IBM software and hardware together

Tags: server, Hewlett-Packard, Cisco, Oracle, Cloud Computing, software, hardware, Smarter Planet, SmartCloud, solution proivders, channel, PartnerWorld, IBM Read More

Blade servers running Windows, Linux or AIX in mainframe environments to be deployed by partners Tags: IBM, mainframe, zEnterprise, channel, solution providers, AIX, Linux, zBX, zEnterprise BladeCenter Extension, X86, Power Series, URM, Unified Resource Manager, System z, Windows Read More

HP now needs to put PC drama and other distractions behind it Tags: PC division, HP, Hewlett-Packard, Electronic Data Systems, EDS, IBM, PCs Read More

Vendor war for SMB storage customers bodes well for channel

Tags: server, Drobo, Netgear, Hewlett-Packard, Dell, IBM, VNX, NetApp, Clarion, EMC, Nexsan, solution providers, channel, Storage Read More

IBM looks for strategic partners to help drive ambitious commerce agenda

Tags: solution providers, channel, Smarter Commerce, IBM Read More

As small-to-medium businesses mature there dependency on innovative IT solutions deepens Tags: consumerization of IT, technology projects, virtualization, financing, small-to-medium business, SMB, Symantec, IBM Read More

IBM sees analytics providing major new opportunities for the channel Tags: Power Series servers, mainframe, appliance, solution providers, analytics, analytic applications, channel, Netezza, IBM Read More

Acquisition of Force 10 Networks by Dell sets stage for major data center showdown Tags: networking, Storage, servers, Oracle, 3Com, channel, solution providers, Cisco, UCS, Unified Computing System, Fulcrum Technologies, Intel, Blade Network, IBM, Hewlett-Packard, Force 10 Networks, Dell, data center Read More

IBM and EnterpriseDB separately increase the pressure on Oracle Tags: IBM, Oracle, EnterpriseDB, PostgreSQL, Websphere Application Server. WAS, Hewlett-Packard, HP-UX, Itanium Read More

Solution providers need to own the middleware stack to have the most amount of customer influence Tags: channel, solution providers, Oracle, Red Hat, middleware, IBM Read More

Business intelligence and analytics represent next killer app opporunity for the channel Tags: IBM, solution providers, channel, business intelligence, analytics, Cognos, CIO, midmarket Read More

Solution proivders in the cloud have a different channel agenda when it comes to servers

Tags: Xeon, virtualization, Super Micro, IBM, Dell, Hewlett-Packard, solution providers, channel, Advanced Micro Devices, Intel, Sandy Bridge, blade server, server, Cloud Computing Read More

When it comes time to pick a vendor in the race for the cloud, all of the above is the best bet for the channel Tags: Microsoft, Hyper-V, Windows Server 2008, Oracle, Red Hat, KVM, Linux, IBM, solution provider, channel, open source, OpenStack, Azure, virtualization, virtual machine, Citrix, VMware, Cloud Computing Read More

IBM rolls out new Smarter Commerce channel program Tags: analytics, solution providers, channel, Smarter Commerce, e-commerce, IBM Read More

Next-generation servers that rely on in-memory processing will prove to be a major disruption in the data center.

Tags: channel, HPC, high performance computing, Cloud Computing, solution providers, High Performance Analytics Appliance, HANA, SAP, Storage, Hewlett-Packard, IBM, Dell, in-memory computing Read More

As war over Oracle's plan for Intel Itanium platform heats up, solution providers are on both sides of the divide

Tags: solution providers, channel, EnterpriseDB, Sparc, Hewlett-Packard, Itanium, Intel, open source, PostgreSQL, DB2, IBM, Oracle Read More