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Five minute interview: Mark Edge, A10 Networks
MicroScope puts itsquestions to Mark Edge, EMEA sales director at network optimisation firm A10 Networks. What is the best/worst advice you have received and from whom?Worst advice: an old boss not insisting I follow him to ArrowPoint who then went p... Opinion
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Green IT key to achieving network efficiencies
Resellers seeking to optimise their end-user networks for cost efficiencieswould do well to talk up green solutions as an element of the pitch, according to a new study into enterprise IT networks from ingfrastructure specialist CommScope. CommScope ... News
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TalkTalk Business integrates new channel services into NGN
TalkTalk Business has revealed it is to launch a portfolio of channel-centric hosted UC solutions, integrated into its NGN, from early next year. Theupdated portfoliowill include a new hosted enterprise PBX, that it developed with help from Mitel, al... News
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Channel must get on top of new mobile compliance rules
Avaya worldwide channel vice president, Jeremy Butt, examines new regulations on mobile communications handed down by the FSA, and considers the channel impact. This week marks an important date for the Financial Services industry and indeed for mobi... Opinion
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Picky consumers dent smartphone market in Q3
Smartphone sales hit a fallow patch during Q3 in advanced markets as buyers held off replacing their kit, the latest market data from Gartner reveal. According to Gartner principal research analyst Roberta Cozza, consumers have been waiting for new f... News
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Accumuli sales up after integration hiccup
Despite encounteringa small accounting anomaly on the balance sheet of its most recent acquisition, Boxing Orange,buy-and-build managed security services firm Accumuli has been reflecting ona "period of considerable progress" after unveilin... News
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Huawei buys Symantec out of security JV
Upwardly-mobile networking vendor Huawei has bought out Symantec's 49% share in the Huawei Symantec joint venture for$530m (£334m). The JV was set up in 2008 to develop security, storage and systems management, and partly to help Symantec estab... News
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Six Degrees plans buy-and-build strategy
Six Degrees, the mid-market data service provider formed by former SpiriTel frontman Alastair Mills over the summer, has hired former Vodafone board director Peter Bamford as non-executive chairman with an eye to embarking on a buy-and-build M&A ... News
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Top Daisy partners admitted to new Orange programme
Mobile airtime distie Daisy Distribution has invited 11 top-performing partners to form part of a new Orange business partner programme called Fusion, which is to be formally launched on 6 December. The new programme, which is being run alongside RIM... News
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Cisco to competitors: no more Mr Nice Guy
Cisco CEO John Chambers has told investors that the firm's turnaround plan is hitting its stride, and warned of more aggressive transformation to come, laying into his competitors and suggesting he had gone easy on them up to now. "We're just be... News