Klaus Schulz, Manager of Product Marketing, EMEA, Fujitsu
Unified communications: chances for channel?
The opportunities in unified communications for vendors and end-users are obvious, but how can the channel cash in on this snowballing technology?
How the channel can benefit from SDN
SDN offers immediate and future growth opportunities for those who begin to prepare now. SDN is about better utilisation and increasing the agility of the underlying infrastructure, not about replacing it.

Perceived missteps may have hit a tipping point for Ballmer
An accumulation of blunders under Steve Ballmer’s leadership may have hit a tipping point this year, leading to Friday’s groundshaking announcement …

Privacy groups criticize proposed $8.5 million Google settlement
Five U.S. privacy groups have opposed a proposed US$8.5 million settlement with Google in a class action lawsuit over search …

9 Proven Ways to Generate Sales Leads
When it comes to the best way (or ways) to generate sales leads, or find new customers, “there is a lot of buzz surrounding social media,” says Mick Hollison, the CMO at InsideSales.com, a provider of cloud-based sales automation and predictive analytics for inside sales professionals. Social media “is exciting and highly utilized.

Amcom buys aCure data centres for $14.3 million
Telco and IT service provider, Amcom Telecommunications, has purchased data centre provider, aCure Technology for $14.3 million. aCure operates three …

Virtualization could save businesses $6b in costs by 2020: IDC
If Australian companies were to virtualize their severs and physical infrastructure, $6 billion in costs could be saved from now to 2020, according to a new whitepaper by research firm IDC.

5 big things to watch for at VMworld
For about the last decade VMware has been one of the pre-eminent companies ushering in a new era of computing related to server virtualization. Now, the company is hoping to extend the shift beyond just server virtualization to include the cloud, plus network and storage virtualization.

With worker retirements looming, IT starts to prepare for a workforce exodus
With 10,000 U.S. baby boomers turning 65 every day until 2030, the IT industry is among those that must plan how its …

First look: Android Studio eclipses Eclipse
Life for an Android developer has always been pretty straightforward. You downloaded Eclipse and installed the Android Developer Tools. The …

Nginx Web server goes commercial with new release
Nginx is releasing a commercial edition of its namesake open source Web server software, called Nginx Plus, which it will market as a software alternative to application delivery controllers (ADCs).

Google gives Chrome mulligan button
Google on Tuesday shipped Chrome 29, patching 25 vulnerabilities and rolling out under-the-hood changes the company said would offer more …

Infor EMEA Partner Conference scheduled for early October, to take place in Istanbul
Infor this week announced that it will hold its annual EMEA Partner Conference at the Renaissance Polat Istanbul Hotel on October 1 and 2, 2013.

Facebook, six other tech companies launch partnership to bridge the digital divide
Facebook and six other tech companies have launched a joint project called Internet.org which aims to connect the two-thirds of the global population that is not currently linked to the Internet.

Rapid 7 to offer new tools for risk management, performance tracking
Rapid 7 this week unveiled a new set of tools designed to help businesses better judge the overall effectiveness of existing security controls and the risk associated with users across the organization.

Rackspace hosts VMware management with new dedicated server
The introduction of Rackspace’s hosted Dedicated VMware vCenter Server will allow IT staff to control their VMware environments from a data center run by the vendor.

Dell Foglight vanquishes zombie VMs
With an update to its Foglight for Virtualisation software package, Dell can now help organizations rid their systems of resource-sucking …

Riverbed delivers acceleration everywhere with industry's most comprehensive WAN optimisation solution
Riverbed Technology, the application performance company, recently extended its market leading Steelhead wide area network (WAN) optimisation product family with the addition of a new hardware appliance and upgrades to its Steelhead software.

Riverbed stands alone in Leaders Quadrant for WAN-optimised controllers in Gartner's Magic Quadrant
Riverbed Technology, the application performance company, recently announced that the company has been positioned by Gartner in the Leaders Quadrant of the 2013 “Magic Quadrant for WAN Optimisation Controllers”.