What Cisco Will Cut Next; Distributors Pave Easy Path to Cloud

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• Cisco's Spending Spree • Vertical Market Opportunity: Selling IT to Healthcare • Ingram Micro: Half of VTN Selling Cloud • Synnex Adds Managed Services Suite • IBM Offers Pricing Help to Cloud ISVs • Facebook Launches Open Compute Project • Apple to Rule Tablet Market for Years to Come • Ingram Micro Partners on Cloud with IBM • Dell Invests $1B in Cloud Infrastructure Toshiba Launches More Secure Hard Drives The drives from Toshiba leverage advanced access security and on-board encryption alongside second-generation data-wipe technology to create a more secure drive. READ MORE >>   Cisco's Spending Spree Two years ago, Cisco acquired Pure Digital and its Flip camcorder. The Flip marked one of 18 acquisitions Cisco has made over the last few years. But as Cisco CEO John Chambers recently acknowledged, Cisco has lost its way. To get back on course, it will make cuts. First victim? The Flip. Wondering what's next? Here's a list of those 18 acquisitions. READ MORE >> Vertical Market Opportunity: Selling IT to Healthcare Industry experts agree that IT solution providers should look to specialize in an industry vertical. But how do you decide on a vertical, and then how do you break in? Here's how IT solution provider NetCenergy identified healthcare as an opportunity and broke into that market. READ MORE >> Sponsored by IBM Work smarter to get the maximum out of your ideas at smartertechnology.com. News, information, and resources for your IT needs. Learn more ADVERTISEMENT Ingram Micro: Half of VTN Selling Cloud IT distributor Ingram Micro says that many of its VTN members have already jumped onto the cloud bandwagon. They can look forward to unified communication and desktop virtualization cloud announcements soon, executives at the distributor told Channel Insider. READ MORE >> Synnex Adds Managed Services Suite Synnex has joined the list of IT distributors offering a suite of managed services offerings to its VAR and IT solution provider partners. In partnership with Level Platforms, Synnex will offer the suite and host the NOC, according to CEO Kevin Murai. READ MORE >> IBM Offers Pricing Help to Cloud ISVs IBM is looking to help make it easier for ISVs to provide cloud services to end customers through a few new pricing and financing programs that let them pay for services the same way customers do -- as they go. READ MORE >> How to Get Started with Cloud Computing View this panel discussion with IBM cloud computing leaders on how enterprises can get started with cloud computing -- reviewing which workloads make sense to move first and the right type of cloud for workloads. DOWNLOAD NOW >> Oracle Databases on VMware vSphere 4: A Guide This document will also show that the same best practices, tuning tips and tricks, and skill sets necessary to deploy Oracle databases in physical environments can be leveraged when deploying Oracle databases in virtual environments. DOWNLOAD NOW >>

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