Diary 27.08.2010

IP Expo

IP Expo
20 – 21 October 2010
Earls Court, London more...

Re/Source 23.08.2010

When designing a virtual server architecture, IT managers need to ensure they do not over look availability, performance, alignment and security issues.

Datacentre Virtualisation: Top Five Mistakes

By Amir Pelese, CTO, Radware

There are five common mistakes being made by IT departments when virtualising a datacentre’s business applications. The conclusion is that isn’t quite as easy as some thought it would be! more...

News 18.08.2010

Distributor Magirus has announced 15 percent growth in its UK storage sales, stemming largely from its EMC business.

Magirus bucks trend thanks to EMC sales

Distributor outperforms channel storage market with double digit growth in EMC storage sales more...

News 16.08.2010

COMPUTERLINKS' David Ellis says the distributor now provides resellers with a 'one-stop solution' to ensure their clients’ data and VMs are protected.

COMPUTERLINKS creates one-stop-shop model for virtualisation partners

Latest signings see COMPUTERLINKS offer resellers business continuity and WAN optimisation for virtual servers
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Re/Source 13.08.2010

BakBone Software's Adrian Moir says looking at the core business data will determine how you approach your customers’ DR strategies; more often than not a ‘one solution fits all’ will not be appropriate.

From Zero to Hero: Eliminating customers’ data loss

by Adrian Moir, technical director EMEA, BakBone Software

Deciding what data is important to the company is a major consideration when it comes to helping your customers with their disaster recovery (DR) plans. more...

News 11.08.2010

Indigo director Sean Thomson says the contracts put the reseller in a strong position for further growth in the coming year.

Scottish VAR celebrates contract wins

Indigo Technologies secures £107k new business more...

Diary 10.08.2010

Symantec Vision 2010

Symantec Vision 2010
October 5-7, 2010
CCIB, Barcelona more...

Diary 03.08.2010

Green IT Expo 2010

Green IT Expo 2010
November 9, 2010
QEII Conference Centre, London more...

Diary 29.07.2010

SNW Europe, Datacenter Technologies & Virtualization World

SNW Europe, Datacenter Technologies & Virtualization World
October 26 & 27, 2010
Congress Frankfurt, Germany more...

News 27.07.2010

IQ-Sys will support SBL's sales team with pre and post sales support and product training.

IQ-Sys and SBL team up to target public sector customers

£2m partnership with IQ-sysbuilds on Symantec and Citrix expertise to sell desktop virtualisation solutions into key verticals more...

News 26.07.2010

More than half of IT heads surveyed by Teneo are planning to increase their use of selected managed services.

Teneo predicts managed services increase as customers unfreeze budgets

More than half of all IT heads surveyed are planning to increase use of managed services to thaw deep frozen IT budgets more...

Re/Source 26.07.2010

BLADE Network Technologies' Charles Ferland argues that one of the final frontiers in datacentre virtualisation is now within reach thanks to the emergence of dedicated network virtualisation tools.

Datacentre network virtualisation – the final frontier

By Charles Ferland, vice president EMEA, BLADE Network Technologies

Recognising that having hundreds of servers running at five percent utilisation is a waste, virtualisation has become a key driver for energy efficiency as well significantly reducing organisations’ IT infrastructure spend. more...

News 14.07.2010

Prolinx MD Andy Weller (right) says the acquisition of Five IT boosts the consultancy arm of the business and enables it to compete for large-scale IT infrastructure contracts in the commercial sector.

Prolinx strengthens ‘Infrastructure as a Service’ strategy with Five IT acquisition

We see huge opportunities and it’s where the market is heading

Third acquisition in 12 months as company defies downturn

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Re/Source 12.07.2010

CASE STUDY: Computacenter / Acronis Academy

Vendors need to equip their channel partners with the skills to successfully roll out projects using their technology

Computacenter graduates from Acronis Academy with expertise in backup and disaster recovery more...

News 05.07.2010

Charles Ferland believes that BLADE's product's performance story, virtualisation support and low energy usage can help channel partners get their feet in the door.

BLADE opens door for partners with virtualisation technology

By Will Garside

OEM player heads into channel with top of rack switching aimed at chipping away at Cisco dominance more...

News 05.07.2010

Lee Perkins, UK country manager, Computer 2000 says the programme is a sign of its commitment to developing its Microsoft business.

Computer 2000 drives Microsoft specialisations with new channel programme

By Christine Horton

Distributor makes further investments to drive Microsoft partner growth more...

Re/Source 30.06.2010

HVDs see the traditional ‘fat’ client replaced with a ‘virtual desktop.’

Hosted Virtual Desktops or Hosted Virtual Delays?

For all the potential benefits, HVD is a demanding technology which requires a considerable commitment from the IT organisation. Andy Wood, head of consultancy practice at Kcom, outlines one of the most important elements in any such deployment – the network. more...

News 29.06.2010

Centrix has reported strong growth driven in part by widespread interest in virtualisation.

Centrix grows partner community

By Will Garside

10 join as interest in smarter desktop virtualisation accelerates more...

News 22.06.2010

Bell Micro's Scott Murphy says the Insight Operations Appliance is aimed at businesses seeking to manage virtualised solutions, but which do not have access to automated network monitoring tools.

Bell Micro first distie to take advantage of HP SME bundle

By Will Garside

Re-badged networking, operations and virtualisation management can open the door for channel. more...

News 21.06.2010

Magirus UK MD Denise Bryant says resellers must look at changing their branding to that of a cloud consultancy, and do it now.

Magirus challenges partners on their cloud plans

By Christine Horton

There’s a load of business processes and IT consultancy because IT mangers won’t know where to start

Distributor tells resellers they must put in groundwork now, or face missing out on lucrative cloud business more...

Re/Source 18.06.2010

Shoden Data Systems' Phil Jones argues that you will get what you pay for with cloud computing.

Virtual Data Centres: fact or fiction?

By Phil Jones, CTO, Shoden Data Systems UK

The hot topic for discussion for the past few months has undoubtedly been cloud computing. The evangelists and the sceptics are now joined in an intriguing set of debates over whether there is real substance underneath the hype; once all the talking stops, can we see virtual data centres emerging? And more importantly, can we see them working out? more...

News 15.06.2010

RES Software channel manager Ronnie Kahn says the firm is seeing significant channel interest in turning desktop virtualisation from a nice-to-have into a must-buy technology.

RES Software signs up virtualisation specialist partners

Four new partners sign up to offer RES Software as part of their desktop and virtualisation solutions portfolio more...

News 15.06.2010

Paul Phillips, regional director for the UK and Ireland says that although there is now some competition with HP, they are still

Foundry acquisition to deliver innovative converged networks for Brocade

By Will Garside

SAN king takes aim at Cisco with “anything to anything” virtual networking more...

News 02.06.2010

Andrew Miller, head of enterprise sales, Calyx; John D'Arcy, chief executive, Colleges Northern Ireland, Tara Brady, CEO, Calyx; Brian Doran, director, Southern Regional College.

Colleges signs ‘one-stop shop’ IT deal with Calyx

IT specialist selected by CNI to be sole provider to educational facilities. more...

News 27.05.2010

HP has unveiled plans to provide partners with increased demand generation and sales support to deliver its Converged Infrastructure portfolio to SMBs.

HP encourages Converged Infrastructure sales

By Christine Horton

Offerings such as HP Converged Infrastructure make sense because a ‘flat pack’ solution for SMBs is an attractive proposition

HP Enterprise Servers, Storage and Networking increases channel support to sell its Converged Infrastructure to SMBs. more...

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