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McAfee tears wrapping off MSP scheme, hands it to resellers

Dragging some partners into the 21st century

HP Software goes back to drawing board with MSP scheme

'Cumbersome and tedious' programme needs reworking

ServiceKey, Oracle end 'grey market' code spat without bloodshed

No damages, no tears, just a shedload of paperwork to fill

Claranet gulps down rival STH in managed services merge

Deal valued at £55m

Avnet sales bigwig Bryant to hop off after Easter

Avnet Technology Solutions sales director Denise Bryant will up sticks and leave the biz next month. Bryant was UK boss at distie Magirus until it was acquired by Avnet last year. She joined her new employer as one of four sales directors, focusing on the EMC, VCE and NetApp vendor franchises. It seems the corporate world of …
Intel Cloud pickets

McAfee embraces managed services providers

McAfee is to unwrap a hosted channel programme in Q3, 2012, the IT security vendor told a press briefing in Marbella today. McAfee's global channel boss Gavin Struthers said the company currently works with Managed Services Providers on a bespoke basis; the new programme is intended to bring all hosted channel initiatives under …

HP big cheese: Is the cloud even proper IT? Whoops, I said it

Analysis Fires shot across 'romantic' Big Blue's bows
Huawei green datacentre cabinet
workman in high vis jacket bent over, super-imposed on cloud background

IBM Business Partner cloud guru slips off to set up own biz

IBM's cloud leader has split to set up his own consultancy advising channel firms on the best way to tackle the "commercial and cultural" realities of moving into cloud services. Steve Heeney rocked up at Big Blue in February 2001 as channel manager and remained in that position until November 2010, when he became the cloud …
Lenticular Cloud

Hey, cloudy channel bods: Vendors have problems too...

The tech industry channel has faced a variety of challenges over the past year or so when it comes to cloud computing. Distributors in the channel have faced a battle over customers with telecommunications vendors, and some channel partners have found themselves unsure about outlining a cloud strategy. This time we're taking a …

Big Blue: Future of our sales - and the channel - lies in ... MSPs

Channels Forum 'Erm , what exactly do you mean by "MSP"?'

Avnet Technology Solutions swallows Pepperweed

US-based HP software and services MSP acquired by distie

Hey! Put down that Cat6 and plug the cloud app gap instead

Channel MSPs should bone up on new skills ... or else

Better Capital's m-hance coughs £6.8m for Maxima units

Troubled MSP losses widen as restructure starts

Anobit doubles flash stash

Has shipped 20 million controllers

Timico Technology Group gobbles Redwood

ISP and MSP get together

Maxima brags of £6m deals to woo admirers

Flashes potential buyers from shop window

IBM: Our kit needs to be sold with '-as-a-Service' on the end now 

Woke up this mornin', 60k servers went up in a Cloud a smoke
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Sony BMG blesses P2P music swapping network

In one of the most significant digital music announcements of the year, Sony BMG has partnered with British digital music outfit Playlouder MSP to make its music catalog available online. Subscribers will be able to exchange licensed music freely, in any bitrate they want, since a portion of the subscription fee goes to a …

Opinion

Alexandre Mesguich

Cloud, virtualisation, mobile tech require fatter pipes

Joe Fay

Server boss comes to London, become hostage to fortune
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Tim Ayling

Er, what does that mean? Anything you want it to

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