R&D throughout the industry has led to significant steps in innovation this year. VARBusiness Tech Innovator Awards recognize the most innovative of these offerings from several different sectors.
Vendors submitted hundreds of entries for the 2008 VARBusiness Tech Innovator Awards, but only a handful emerged as purveyors of unique, groundbreaking products. Here's a look at the winners.
HP's first touch-screen notebook for consumers has plenty of options for work and play.
Novell To Acquire Managed Objects
11:08 AM EDT Wed. Oct. 15, 2008
With the purchase, Waltham, Mass.-based Novell is looking to add to its data center portfolio with the addition of service management market analysis tools from Managed Objects. Those services include the BSM platform that integrates architecture to support workflows and IT activities based on data across physical and virtual environments.
Novell said Managed Objects products complement and extend Novell's existing workload management and virtualization solutions by adding flexible service modeling, Configuration Management Data Base (CMDB) technology, advanced analytics and Web 2.0-based visualization technology.
"There is very little product overlap and tremendous synergy between the two companies and our respective technology," Siki Giunta, president and CEO of Managed Objects, said in a statement.
McClean, Va.-based Managed Objects has a roster of heavy-hitter clients such as BNP Paribas, CSC, DISA, Fidelity Investments, JPMorganChase, Progress Energy, UBS and U.S. Customs & Border Protection. The company will be fully integrated into Novell's Systems and Resource Management business unit.
"By adding the Managed Objects toolset to the Novell portfolio of data center solutions, we are unique in providing technology-agnostic and proven cross-platform solutions that span both the physical and virtual worlds, all in one unified view," said Joe Wagner, Novell's senior vice president of systems and resource management, in a statement.
Just last month, Novell made channel management changes with the appointment of Javier Colado as its new channel chief. Previously, Colado was the manager of the company's Europe, Middle East and Africa operations. He replaced Pat Bernard, vice president of global channel sales, who left the company to "pursue other interests." Colado reports directly to President and CEO Ron Hovsepian.
SanDisk Enterprise Extra! E-NewsletterSanDisk Enterprise Solutions Group is offering a free partner enewsletter for security-minded resellers and VARs.
$100 of Selected Adaptec Series 5 RAID Controllers$100 Instant Rebate through authorized distributors on Adaptec Series 5 RAID Controllers with Intelligent Power Mangement. El...
