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Network Infrastructure Solutions and Services
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November 17, 2010
17
Nov'10
Product sales bounce back as DiData files final results
Integrator Dimension Data has posted improved revenues and profits for the full-year to the end of September, with sales up 19% - 9% at constant currency rates - to $4.74bn (£2.98bn) and operating profit of $237.8m, up 22% in reported currency...
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November 17, 2010
17
Nov'10
Belden offloads Trapeze to Juniper
Cabling specialist Belden has offloaded its WLAN business, Trapeze Networks, which it acquired in 2008 for $133m (£83.8m) to Juniper Networks, after failing to make waves in the wireless market.
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November 16, 2010
16
Nov'10
Opal sales flat as voice revenues decline
Sales at business-to-business comms provider Opal remained flat year-on-year during the second quarter as declining sales of voice products were offset by growth in data products and services, parent TalkTalk said today.
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November 15, 2010
15
Nov'10
Nortel books $649m loss after pension charges
Nortel's rump operation has posted net third quarter sales of $85m (£52.8m), down 90.1% year-on-year as a result of business divestitures in the past 12 months.
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November 15, 2010
15
Nov'10
Cisco stock app takes to iPhone, BlackBerry platforms
Cisco distributor Azlan has launched two apps for the iPhone and Blackberry platforms designed to help SMB resellers get a snapshot of Cisco stock availability on the fly. The apps have already been road-tested by Azlan's in-house sales teams and ...
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November 11, 2010
11
Nov'10
Cisco margins hit by component shortfall
Cisco is still feeling the effects of bottle necks in the networking component supply chain, despite CFO Frank Calderoni noting a "substantial improvement in our supply" in Q1.
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November 11, 2010
11
Nov'10
Global Services star performer for BT in Q2
BT has posted a slight decline in sales for its second quarter to the end of September, although both EBITDA and pre-tax profit showed improvement, up 3% and 13% respectively after a strong performance from problem child, BT Global Services.
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November 11, 2010
11
Nov'10
Cisco questions strength of recovery as Q1 profits fall short
The stock markets have punished Cisco after the networking market leader missed forecast earnings targets by a country mile in the first quarter of its fiscal 2011.
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November 10, 2010
10
Nov'10
Avaya acknowledges Nortel dealer discontent
Avaya has acknowledged the complaints of some of the Nortel enterprise partners absorbed into its channel during the course of 2010, and pledged to begin to monetise the Nortel lines in the coming months.
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November 10, 2010
10
Nov'10
White box builders, smartphones behind mobile boom
The worldwide market for mobile phone sales has enjoyed another record quarter on the back of continuing adoption of smartphones sales of which soared 96%, and the growth of a new white box mobile sector in the developing world.
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November 10, 2010
10
Nov'10
Accumuli acquires Tuscany Networks for £4m
Buy and build vehicle Accumuli has bid £4m for AIM listed Tuscany Networks in a reverse takeover and plans to raise cash through a share placement to fund two further acquisitions early next year.
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November 10, 2010
10
Nov'10
Daisy snaps up acquisitive SpiriTel
Just as it promised its shareholders last month, acquisitive business communications provider Daisy Group has bought up rival SpiriTel for £27.5m, the largest acquisition it has made since embarking on a buy-and-build frenzy in 2009.
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November 08, 2010
08
Nov'10
Avaya ramps up Connect partner programme
Avaya has rolled out a series of enhancements to its one year-old Connect partner programme at its annual conference, which this year is being held in Barcelona.
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November 08, 2010
08
Nov'10
Avaya to chase down grey traders
Avaya has vowed to get more aggressive with grey marketing of its kit after a high-profile case that resulted in one UK trader being busted to the tune of $250,000.
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November 08, 2010
08
Nov'10
Redstone acquires Fujin Systems
Redstone has acquired Ethernet and data centre services provider Fujin Systems for £400,000 but the price tag could rise to £2.9m depending on future earnings.
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November 05, 2010
05
Nov'10
Nimans puts eggs in leasing basket
Nimans is to launch a series of training sessions for resellers designed to promote the concept of leasing arrangements to its dealer community.
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November 04, 2010
04
Nov'10
Alcatel-Lucent sales, profits up on growing demand
Alcatel-Lucent has posted an unexpected net profit of €25m (£21.8m) for the third quarter ended 30 September after booking one-off gain related to its pension scheme.
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November 04, 2010
04
Nov'10
Azlan launches Avaya channel lifeboat
Enterprise and networking distributor Azlan has launched a lifeboat programme for resellers affected by the expulsion of Nimans from Avaya's distribution line-up.
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November 03, 2010
03
Nov'10
Redstone sells Irish reselling business to PFH
Redstone has offloaded its Irish reselling operation to PFH Technology group for £2.25m as it continues to re-shape the operation into a managed services provider.
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November 03, 2010
03
Nov'10
Nimans cut from Avaya distribution team
Avaya has announced that it is ending its distribution agreement with Manchester-based comms and networking distie Nimans. The move to rationalise its distributor portfolio has been a long time coming, with senior UK sources within Avaya admitting ...
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November 03, 2010
03
Nov'10
Gem gets D-Link consumer lines
D-Link has signed DCC's consumer distribution unit Gem to manage its growing consumer portfolio and drive more sales through retail channels.
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November 02, 2010
02
Nov'10
Micro-P confirmed as new Cisco SMB distie
Micro-P has today confirmed it will be joining Cisco's distribution line-up to sell its SMB product lines, as revealed last Friday The distributor said its appointment would reinforce its recent move into the comms and mobility sector.
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November 02, 2010
02
Nov'10
Extreme numbers up on service provider sales
Growth in sales through service provider partners in EMEA helped Extreme Networks reverse its year-ago losses during the first quarter of its fiscal 2011, the firm has said.
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October 29, 2010
29
Oct'10
ShoreTel loss widens on stock compensation costs
Net losses at UC specialist ShoreTel widened year-on-year to $3.6m in the firm's fiscal Q1, after it incurred stock-based compensation expenses of $2.8m.
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October 28, 2010
28
Oct'10
Internet worth £100bn to UK economy
The UK's online economy is generating £100bn a year, pulling in over 7% of the nation's GDP, dwarfing industries such as construction, transport and utilities, according to research conducted by the US-based Boston Consulting Group on behalf ...
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October 28, 2010
28
Oct'10
Riverbed names channel sales VP
Network performance specialist Riverbed has promoted its service provider sales boss to vice president of worldwide channel sales as it seeks to up partner revenue opportunities.
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October 27, 2010
27
Oct'10
F5 forecasts strong start to new fiscal year
Network equipment maker F5 Networks is the latest vendor to weigh in with quarterly numbers as the latest results season gets into full swing.
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October 27, 2010
27
Oct'10
SMB sales shine for Netgear
A worldwide recovery in demand for networking kit among SMBs benefited Netgear during its fiscal Q3, which closed on 3 October, according to chairman and CEO Patrick Lo.
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October 27, 2010
27
Oct'10
Brocade ditches reseller sales targets
Brocade is removing revenue requirements from its Alliance Partner Network (APN) programme in an attempt to refocus its resellers on "quality and skills", according to worldwide channel vice president Barbara Spicek.
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October 26, 2010
26
Oct'10
Everything Everywhere appoints new sales head
Mobility JV Everything Everywhere is ramping up its business offering with the addition of Andy Summerfield as corporate sales director for its Orange Business wing.
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October 25, 2010
25
Oct'10
Component shortages leave Ericsson flat
Ericsson CEO Hans Vestberg has once again blamed a lacklustre quarter on continuing supply chain bottlenecks and shortages of critical components after the Swedish networking giant saw a slim 2% year-on-year rise in sales.
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October 25, 2010
25
Oct'10
Extreme hires ex-3Com channel team for platinum push
Extreme Networks has hired two former 3Com channel specialists to drive its own UK partner programme. Steve Johnson, who joins as UK channel director, was formerly business development manager at 3Com/H3C, and also served as UK channel head between ...
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October 25, 2010
25
Oct'10
Computerlinks named as new D-Link distie
Security and network distributor Computerlinks is to take on IP surveillance and storage kit from SMB networking vendor D-Link.
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October 22, 2010
22
Oct'10
Video demand benefits Polycom
The ongoing spike in demand for video solutions in the business world has seen Polycom book record revenues for the third quarter of fiscal 2010, which closed at the end of September. The firm made sales of $308m (£196.2m) up 27% year-on-year,...
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October 22, 2010
22
Oct'10
Riverbed acquires as Q3 sales hit new record
Network optimisation vendor Riverbed has stormed to another record quarter and splashed out on wireless packet capture and analysis expert CACE Technologies to boost the traffic recording, analysis and inspection capabilities of its Cascade solution.
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October 21, 2010
21
Oct'10
ShoreTel buys Agito to beef up mobile support
Unified comms vendor ShoreTel is buying platform-agnostic enterprise mobility specialist Agito for $11.4m to bulk up its mobile support capabilities.
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October 21, 2010
21
Oct'10
Elop wields axe at troubled Nokia
Nokia's new CEO Stephen Elop has announced plans to cut 1,800 jobs, approximately 3% of its total staff, in an attempt to streamline the troubled vendor's smartphone operation.
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October 21, 2010
21
Oct'10
Colt to restructure as voice sales slow
Business comms and managed services provider Colt Group is to embark on a restructuring programme to simplify its business and increase its operating efficiency.
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October 20, 2010
20
Oct'10
Juniper breaks billion dollar sales barrier
Juniper Networks has broken the billion dollar revenue barrier after posting a 23% year-on-year and 3% sequential spike in revenues to $1.012bn (£638.4m) in its fiscal third quarter, which closed on 30 September.
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October 20, 2010
20
Oct'10
Pilots of rural superfast broadband to kick off
The government has outlined plans to start rolling out fast broadband to rural communities as part of its pledge to get more people connected.
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October 19, 2010
19
Oct'10
Westcon Convergence takes over Comstor HP contract
Cisco distributor Comstor has handed off its eighteen-month long relationship with HP Networking to its parent, Westcon Convergence.
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October 19, 2010
19
Oct'10
Redstone Group to sell Technology division to reseller PFH
Redstone is in advanced talks with reseller and managed service provider PFH Technology Group to sell its Technology division in Ireland.
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October 19, 2010
19
Oct'10
Avnet to close Chessington office, staff on redundancy notice
Avnet Technology Solutions has initiated a redundancy programme at its offices in Chessington, formerly the European headquarters of Bell Microproducts, after internally announcing plans to exit the building.
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October 18, 2010
18
Oct'10
UK broadband quality improving steadily
The quality of broadband connections across the UK has shown steady improvement during the past 12 months as BT and the government continue to press home the advantages of fibre technology, according to Cisco's annual Broadband Quality Study.
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October 18, 2010
18
Oct'10
Redstone offloads assets of legacy telco business
Redstone has sold parts of its legacy PBX business to Maintel Europe for £1.75m in cash.
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October 15, 2010
15
Oct'10
Exponential tablet growth threat to netbook market
The netbook market is under increasing threat of cannibalisation as the average selling price of a media tablet drops below the $300 (£186) mark, according to Gartner.
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October 15, 2010
15
Oct'10
LANDesk appoints former Trend Micro UK boss
Nigel Seddon, former UK managing director at Trend Micro, has not had to wait long before reappearing in the channel after being handed a role as Northern European sales director at LANDesk.
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October 14, 2010
14
Oct'10
Ofcom merges with postal body in quango shake-up
The government is to merge independent communications regulator Ofcom with its postal service counterpart Postcomm as part of the quango cull announced today.
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October 14, 2010
14
Oct'10
HP bounds up Ethernet charts
The acquisition of 3Com has sent Hewlett-Packard's share of the worldwide Ethernet port market skyrocketing during the second calendar quarter of 2010, according to In-Stat figures. HP now accounts for 20% of Ethernet port shipments and has bumped ...
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October 13, 2010
13
Oct'10
Brick steps down as HP Networking head
HP Networking UK country sales director Darryl Brick has stepped down from his post with immediate effect, it has emerged. His replacement, Barry Bonnett, is joining HP from little-known comms consultancy outfit Stejac.
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October 13, 2010
13
Oct'10
Datatec sees challenging first half in UK
Westcon and Logicalis parent Datatec has said that business in the UK remained "challenging" during the first half of its fiscal 2011, which closed at the end of August.
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October 13, 2010
13
Oct'10
Spy boss warns of growing network threat
The head of the government's communications intelligence agency, GCHQ, has warned of a growing threat to the UK's network infrastructure and called for a "holistic" response to the potential danger posed by both criminals and hostile foreign ...
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October 12, 2010
12
Oct'10
DiData acquisition enters final stages
The £2.1bn acquisition of Dimension Data by NTT is moving ahead after the deal conditions were formally satisfied yesterday. As of midday on Monday Japanese comms outfit NTT had "received valid acceptances" in respect of approximately 93% of ...
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October 12, 2010
12
Oct'10
Slow net speeds a growing concern for SMEs
SME advocacy group, the Forum of Private Business (FPB), has released figures suggesting that just under a quarter of British SMEs are deriding their Internet connection speeds as inadequate.
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October 12, 2010
12
Oct'10
Vendor squabbles hamstring mobile video market
Lack of interoperability between devices and a growing number of lawsuits between mobile vendors will hold back more widespread use of mobile video technology in the next five years, says a study out today from Juniper Research.
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October 11, 2010
11
Oct'10
Everything Everywhere turns on joint network
Both consumer and business customers of Everything every where's Orange and T-Mobile brands are now able to sign up to access the firm's two mobile networks. The move is the first outwardly tangible result of the Everything Everywhere joint venture,...
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October 08, 2010
08
Oct'10
Perceived benefits of video technology evolving
Worldwide end-user perceptions of the benefits of video-conferencing technology are beginning to evolve beyond the mere cost savings and travel reduction, according to new research.
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October 07, 2010
07
Oct'10
Azlan recruits sales director from BT Engage IT
Azlan has handed newly appointed sales director Joe Breen the remit of building a base of corporate reseller customers.
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October 07, 2010
07
Oct'10
Daisy buy-and-build strategy to continue despite losses
Acquisitive UC services outfit Daisy Group has said it will continue to "target further synergistic opportunities" to grow the business through acquisitions, despite posting a hefty £14m post-tax loss in its most recent set of figures.
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October 07, 2010
07
Oct'10
Datatec takes 100% Westcon stake
Datatec has snapped upVC outfit Routine Capital's stake in Westcon, taking its share in the networking and convergence distributor to 100%. Prior to the transaction Westcon's equity was owned 97.4% by Datatec and 2.6% by Routine Capital Corporation.
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October 06, 2010
06
Oct'10
New Azzurri boss restructures management roles
Mark Quarter Maine, incoming CEO at networking and comms integrator Azzurri, has shuffled senior management and made a series of new appointments, with some personnel, prominent among them sales director Jason Stander wick, leaving the firm.
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October 05, 2010
05
Oct'10
Viatel sells channel business to networking venture
Viatel has sold its UK retail business VTL to a new venture called MDNX for an undisclosed sum. The two units had already been separated, and operated as independent units for the past 12 months said Viatel.
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October 04, 2010
04
Oct'10
MurphX director handed keys to Daisy Wholesale
Daisy Wholesale, the channel-facing arm of business UC provider Daisy Group, has made former MurphX commercial director Carl Churchill managing director.
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October 04, 2010
04
Oct'10
Brocade splits with EMEA channel boss and UK head
Brocade has put up the help wanted sign after splitting with long-serving UK country manager Paul Phillips and relative newcomer EMEA channel director Amanda Giddins. A spokesman at Brocade confirmed the departures but was unable to offer any other ...
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October 04, 2010
04
Oct'10
Alternative Networks makes Scalable play
Networking integrator, IP specialist and Mitel partner Scalable Communications has been bought by comms services provider Alternative Networks in a £7.5m cash deal, plus a deferred £2.5m consideration based on future growth.
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October 01, 2010
01
Oct'10
Everything Everywhere cans 1,200 jobs after profit slump
Everything everywhere, the recently formed mobile network joint venture between Orange and T-Mobile, is axing 1,200 jobs, approximately 7.5% of its 16,000 total staff, it has emerged.
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September 30, 2010
30
Sep'10
FalconStor chief quits over 'improper' payments
FalconStor Software president, CEO and chairman of the board has resigned amid allegations of "improper" payments made in connection to one customer's contract.
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September 30, 2010
30
Sep'10
Networks First launches network maturity service
Infrastructure services support specialist Networks First has launched a network maturity assessment tool designed to enable its reseller and integrator partners to identify new opportunities to up sell into their sales targets.
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September 30, 2010
30
Sep'10
Cornwall to get disputed £132m fibre broadband network
Plans to give businesses and homes in one of the UK's poorest counties high-speed internet access through fibre to the premises were unveiled today despite a complaint to the European courts about alleged unfair competition for the £132m ...
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September 30, 2010
30
Sep'10
Redstone closes door on annus horribilis
The extent of Redstone's troubles have been laid bare by financial results that reflect the tough economic climate and its unclear strategy in fiscal 2010.
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September 30, 2010
30
Sep'10
Nortel to fight UK pension claims
Nortel has joined forces with representatives of bankrupt financial house Lehman Brothers to fight demands that they cover deficits in their UK pension schemes. The UK Pensions Regulator is seeking to recover £2.1bn from Nortel and ...
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September 29, 2010
29
Sep'10
Redstone restructure begins with closure of BSF division
Redstone is closing its loss-making ie4 (RIE) subsidiary that operates in the ill-fated Building Schools for the Future program.
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September 29, 2010
29
Sep'10
Cisco data centre demos a new LEAP for Comstor
Cisco distributor Comstor has lifted the wraps on a data centre proof-of-concept demo and training centre in Brussels based around Cisco's Unified Compute (UCS) architecture.
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September 29, 2010
29
Sep'10
Cable & Wireless to build Cisco UCS clouds
Cable & Wireless Worldwide is to build WAN-based enterprise cloud computing solutions based on Cisco's UCS data centre platform.
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September 28, 2010
28
Sep'10
Orange Business Services signs up to cloud alliance
Hosted network services provider Orange Business Services has signed up to a new alliance with Cisco, EMC and VMware to target enterprises with cloud-based infrastructure and software-as-a-service solutions.
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September 27, 2010
27
Sep'10
Apple concessions end planned EC probe
The European Commission has abandoned its planned antitrust probe of Apple after the vendor made a series of concessions surrounding cross-border repair policies and developer restrictions.
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September 27, 2010
27
Sep'10
Ericsson nabs Nortel switching unit
Ericsson has acquired Nortel's multi-service switching (MSS) unit for $65m (£41m) after successfully outbidding a consortium made up of private equity money and a little-known comms firm called Samnite Technologies.
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September 23, 2010
23
Sep'10
Blue Coat inks video pact with Alcatel-Lucent
Application delivery specialist Blue Coat has signed a resale agreement with Alcatel-Lucent to bundle its web caching and content delivery portfolio alongside the networking vendor's video delivery platform, Velocix.
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September 22, 2010
22
Sep'10
Cisco streamlines rebate scheme
Cisco has taken an axe to its Partner Development Fund (PDF) scheme, reducing the number of tracks from eight to four in an attempt to simplify the programme for its VAR community.
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September 21, 2010
21
Sep'10
Polycom adds new EMEA head, business units
Unified comms and video specialist Polycom has bulked up its worldwide business with a series of new hires at the top and the launch of three new lines of business.
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September 21, 2010
21
Sep'10
Vodafone programme to speed UC services transition
Vodafone has rolled out a new UK reseller programme designed to help dealers move from traditional communications kit sales to an all-encompassing unified comms model.
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September 20, 2010
20
Sep'10
RM says sales on target after bright summer
Summer sales progressed as expected according to education specialist RM despite the government's austerity measures that are wreaking havoc in parts of the sector.
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September 20, 2010
20
Sep'10
Calyx Ireland voice and data unit flogged to management
Calyx management have acquired the €20m turnover voice and data security operation in Ireland from receivers Kavanagh Fennell and plan to trade as Unity Technology Solutions.
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September 20, 2010
20
Sep'10
Azzurri plugs tech gaps with new unit
Networking integrator Azzurri has launched a new business unit to better integrate its software development arm with its traditional integration and consultancy practice.
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September 17, 2010
17
Sep'10
RIM beats forecasts on consumer sales
Canadian mobility vendor RIM has beaten expectations for the second quarter of its fiscal 2010 -which closed on 28 August - after sales rose 31% year-on-year to $3.53bn and net income soared 67% to $796.7m. Device sales accounted for 79% of sales, ...
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September 16, 2010
16
Sep'10
Virtualisation security to be top priority in 2011
Research conducted ahead of next month's IP Expo infrastructure trade show has suggested that concerns around virtualisation and data security will dominate IT managers' thoughts over the next 12 months.
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September 16, 2010
16
Sep'10
DiData buys into video services with mvision acquisition
Dimension Data has bulked up its managed video services muscle after buying video integrator mvision for an undisclosed sum. Mvision specialises in Tandberg kit, and following the acquisition of the vendor by Cisco had made plans to become a Cisco ...
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September 15, 2010
15
Sep'10
Chambers to pay Cisco's first dividend
Cisco CEO John Chambers has decided to let investors in on a bit of the action, returning 1% to 2% of the vendor's $40bn cash pile to shareholders in its first ever dividend payment.
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September 15, 2010
15
Sep'10
Radware subject of bidding war talk
Hewlett-Packard may be about to embroil itself in a bidding war with IBM over Israel-based networking and security vendor Radware.
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September 14, 2010
14
Sep'10
BT Global Services gets new sales, marketing head
Troubled enterprise ICT services provider BT Global Services (BTGS) has appointed former AT&T EMEA head Tom Regent to president of global sales and marketing.
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September 13, 2010
13
Sep'10
Azlan on the prowl for Avaya VARs
C2000's enterprise and networking division Azlan has launched a recruitment drive to win over the Avaya dealer channel and sign up some new members at the same time.
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September 13, 2010
13
Sep'10
Nimans boss vows to cut out network jargon
Niman's newly-appointed network services head Mark Curtis-Wood has vowed to take a back-to-basics approach to sales pitches in order to entreat more dealers to consider adopting network services.
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September 10, 2010
10
Sep'10
Comstor updates Cisco guidebook
Networking distributor and Cisco-specialist Comstor has updated its Cisco Solutions Handbook, adding sections on the vendor's UCS data centre portfolio for the first time.
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September 10, 2010
10
Sep'10
Nokia ousts CEO in favour of Microsoft man
Beleaguered Nokia CEO Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo has been given his marching orders and will be replaced by Microsoft Business Division head Stephen Elop from 21 September. Kallasvuo spent 30 years at Nokia and helmed the firm from 2006.
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September 09, 2010
09
Sep'10
Vodafone announces restructuring plans
Vodafone is to take steps to rationalise its business through a restructuring plan that it says will simplify managerial governance and reduce some unnecessary organisational layers.
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September 09, 2010
09
Sep'10
ShoreTel rolls out TCO courses
UC and IP phone specialist ShoreTel is to run a series of channel-centrictotal cost of ownership (TCO)training courses across EMEA todrive uptake ofits Online TCO facility. ShoreTel has staked a big part of its market reputation on beating its ...
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September 08, 2010
08
Sep'10
Ciena losses widen on Nortel MEN integration
Ciena has slumped to a GAAP net loss of $109.9m (£71m) or $1.18 per share after booking $17m of acquisition and integration-related costs associated with the integration of Nortel's Metro Ethernet Networks (MEN) business.
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September 08, 2010
08
Sep'10
Brocade tweaks Alliance Partner Network
Brocade has made a series of tweaks to its Professional Services (PSP) and Support Delivery (SDP) partner networks to reflect growing sales in IT infrastructure as a service.
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September 08, 2010
08
Sep'10
IDC raises converged device sales forecast
Analysts at IDC have raised their global sales forecast for the converged mobile device market by 10% amid greater than expected demand for smartphone devices. The number-crunchers now expect the worldwide market to grow 55.4% over 2009, with 269.6 ...
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September 08, 2010
08
Sep'10
Avaya consolidates PBX market leadership in Q2
Avaya has consolidated its position at the top of the PBX shipment tree in the second quarter of 2010, according to the latest market figures from analysts at MZA.