Emerson has made a massive new commitment to the channel, promising to better engage with partners and protect them from its direct business.

Lifecycle and IT service management solution vendor, Landesk Software, has been taken over by US-based private equity firm, Thoma Bravo. The company’s country manager, Alan Abraham, claimed the move would help Australian partners thanks to increased investment.

The top 10 mergers and acquisitions in the network industry in 2009 all cracked the billion-dollar barrier, and involved vendors in hardware, IT services, collaboration, storage, wireless infrastructure and other segments. IT behemoths such as Oracle, Cisco, Dell, HP, EMC and IBM were among the biggest spenders.

Datacentre vendor, Emerson, will acquire infrastructure management vendor, Avocent for $US1.2 billion.

Datacentre vendor, Emerson, has partnered with Anixter to broaden its reach beyond IT.

Emerson has released its datacentre and computer room auditing services to the channel.

Adelaide-based distributor, Mission Critical Systems (MCS), has expanded its agreement with Emerson Network Power to include the vendor’s full product range.

Emerson has released its datacentre and computer room auditing services to the channel.

It’s the heart of the IT infrastructure and when it is beating too fast, energy – and by default money – goes to waste. For many organisations, the datacentre provides the lifeblood of operations, but when it is running ineffi ciently it eats up a signifi cant amount of dollars. In this feature, TREVOR CLARKE outlines 10 ways to help cut datacentre costs.