Profile: Ingram Micro’s APAC Cloud Boss, Richard Duggan
Ingram Micro's new APAC Cloud boss discusses the distributor's new Cloud Marketplace launch, the partner programmes to go with it, and his new role.
Ingram Micro's new APAC Cloud boss discusses the distributor's new Cloud Marketplace launch, the partner programmes to go with it, and his new role.
"If the new H3C effectively manages the transition to leverage the strengths of each company, they will be poised to become a new giant."
"We’re not coming over here and telling them how to do anything. The guys on the ground in New Zealand already know how to do it."
It's been about 15 months since Extreme Networks completed the acquisition of Enterasys Networks, a move that bolstered not only Extreme's financial heft, but widened its switching line and beefed up its wireless LAN capabilities. Extreme CEO Charles Berger gave IDG US Media Chief Content Officer John Gallant an update on the progress of integrating Enterasys's technology and discussed how software-defined networking is reshaping the industry. He also discussed how Extreme's work on in-venue wireless with NFL teams and others will benefit all customers.
Standing on stage with the backdrop of a bustling Shanghai behind him, Bill Veghte, fittingly spoke of change within Hewlett-Packard.
When HP first announced it was retrenching more than 25,000 staff worldwide and the depth of its financial problems, Nermin Bajric spoke exclusively to the HP PPS South Pacific vice-president, Robert Mesaros. Now, six months later, he and Mesaros met again to discuss what has happened at HP since.
After a crazy year for HP that included a failed tablet, a hasty decision to abandon the PC business (a decision now abandoned), and a CEO shakeup, the company seems eager to get back to business as usual.
The ARN Awards Hardware Vendor of the Year gong has been won for the fourth straight year by HP. The company's ability to maintain a stable hold as the premiere hardware vendor is a spectacular result.
In the second instalment of an in-depth interview, John Chambers talks with John Gallant, Scot Finnie, and Editor-in-Chief Eric Knorr about the changing competitive landscape, Cisco’s datacentre strategy and its relationship with HP.
Like a formula one driver at the top of his game, HP has shown remarkable consistency as the company negotiated the bends, curves and hairpins of the market over the past year.
Marius Haas is senior vice president and general manager of HP's ProCurve Networking business, which was recently aligned with the company's server, storage and services businesses under HP's Technology Solutions Group, creating an approximately $45 billion unit. Haas, who previously served as senior vice president of strategy and corporate development, is charged with shifting the network business into overdrive. Network World Editor in Chief John Dix caught up with Haas to talk about the market and his plans.
The printing space has always been tough, but with the economic crisis biting margins and revenues, the channel has been up against it like never before. HP imaging and printing group vice-president, Richard Bailey, took on his position just as the doom and gloom started to hit six months ago. He talks to TREVOR CLARKE about his fi rst half year in the job.
New channel recruit at EMC, Leo Lynch, joined the vendor three months ago after a long tenure with HP. He talked to MATTHEW SAINSBURY about opportunities in storage, social responsibilities in enterprise and BlackBerry devices.
This time last year HP was the toast of the hardware vendor town. In 2007, it had become the world’s leading PC vendor and was rewarded for its channel consistency with the ARN Hardware Vendor of the Year award.