CenturyLink Offers Entry to Cloud
CenturyLink, Inc. has launched AppGrid, a private cloud service available through the savvisdirect online channel created to help businesses better manage the application lifecycle...
Dell Going Private, Good for Channel Partners?
The venerable IT computing giant Dell is planning to go private in a $24.4 billion deal, with Michael Dell himself leading the way away...
CompTIA Launches Enterprise Mobility Community
Enterprise mobility is the story right now in business communications, with big ramifications for IT departments, VARs and channel partners as they shift strategies...
FCC’s ‘Super Wi-Fi’ Plan Aims to Bring Free Wireless to All
In the latest gambit to create broadband for all, the FCC is floating an idea for a network of “super-Wi-Fi” coverage nationwide that would...
Oracle’s Acme Packet Buy Takes on Cisco in IP
Oracle Corp. this week agreed to acquire session border controller specialist Acme Packet for approximately $2.1 billion in a deal that will pit it...
Alpheus Names Matt Milliron as Channel Head
Texas metro-regional fiber provider Alpheus Communications has a new channel head: Matt Milliron has joined the company as senior vice president of enterprise and...
Lightower Authorized as Government Supplier for Massachusetts
Lightower Fiber Networks, a metro fiber and bandwidth provider in the Northeast, has been named an authorized vendor to the Massachusetts state government through...
Radvision Debuts eVident Video Conferencing Management Suite
It’s an era of multiple types of endpoints and networks when it comes to enterprise video conferencing—requiring refreshed approaches to network and endpoint management....
ShoreTel Adds Multichannel Support to Contact Center
Unified communications specialist ShoreTel has upgraded its contact center solution to support multichannel touch-points: call center agents can now more effectively handle e-mails, chats...
M2M Poised to Be a $26B Opportunity
The machine-to-machine (M2M) and embedded device market is about to experience explosive growth, growing from $1.4 billion in 2011 to $25.9 billion in 2016,...
