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		<title>How Social Are Your Partners?</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Every time I begin to blog about social media, I pause and think of how my inbox is assaulted on daily basis with invitations to attend/participate in social media events, webinars, etc. Everyone is talking about social media in the channel, but up to this point, we really haven’t seen our clients doing much about [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=amazonconsultingblog.wordpress.com&blog=4289035&post=680&subd=amazonconsultingblog&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Q4 2009 Check-in</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Diane Krakora, CEO
Diane speaks briefly about  partnering priorities this quarter that could very well expand through 2010, including partner program refreshing, optimizing channel spend, breaking into new markets, and internal and external channel sales training.
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		<title>Getting Back to Basics</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Nov 2009 01:39:35 +0000</pubDate>
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By Sandra Glaser Cheek &#8211; Director, Client Services
Often when we work with clients on their channel communications strategies, our social media recommendations bring on a mountain of questions and concerns. There is a lot of apprehension around developing a social media strategy. Questions like getting executive buy-in, integration of internal teams that will engage partners [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=amazonconsultingblog.wordpress.com&blog=4289035&post=664&subd=amazonconsultingblog&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>OPN Specialized at Oracle OpenWorld 2009</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Oct 2009 01:48:50 +0000</pubDate>
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Beth Vanni shares her thoughts on OPN Specialized with Lydia Smyers immediately after the launch of the program at Oracle OpenWorld 2009.
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		<title>Lines Drawn In The Sand: Are Oracle’s Partnering Efforts Ready to Stand Among its New Competitors?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Oct 2009 02:45:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Beth Vanni – Director, Market Intelligence
October 12, 2009 &#8211;  Oracle OpenWorld 2009:   As Sun Microsystems&#8217; Chairman Scott McNealy literally passed the baton to his &#8220;better capitalist&#8221; colleague, Larry Ellison, it became clear on stage to most OpenWorld attendees that Oracle is entering a new league.  When the Sun acquisition becomes final for Oracle, targeted for [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=amazonconsultingblog.wordpress.com&blog=4289035&post=647&subd=amazonconsultingblog&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>HP DOUBLES-DOWN ITS BET IN THE DATA CENTER:  Announced Enhancements to PartnerONE Program</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Oct 2009 21:21:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today, HP announced enhancements to its PartnerONE program aimed at increasing its focus on data center solutions through its enterprise channel partners.   Since Cisco announced its unified computing system strategy earlier this year, HP’s focus on its data center and ProCurve networking solutions channel partners has been a top priority.   Today’s announcements include both new [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=amazonconsultingblog.wordpress.com&blog=4289035&post=638&subd=amazonconsultingblog&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Clouds Begin To Part:  Where Do Distributors Fit After The Storm?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Sep 2009 23:25:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A View on the Vendor/Distributor Relationship from the GTDC Annual Summit
By Beth Vanni &#8211; Director, Market Intelligence



Top channel support functions that distributors help with to increase ease of doing business for vendors&#8217; partners (Amazon Consulting Cost of Complexity Study)

At last year’s Global Technology Distribution Council (GTDC) most of the conversation was about access to capital [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=amazonconsultingblog.wordpress.com&blog=4289035&post=607&subd=amazonconsultingblog&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Texas Titans Gang Up: Perot Systems and Dell Make Enterprise Services Play &#8211; Late to the Game</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Sep 2009 21:40:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[For me, it’s a pretty simple debrief.  Dell has been increasingly trying to gain relevance in the enterprise, with both servers, storage and services.
They had no real comparable services arm to compete with EDS/HP or IBM G.S.   They are worried about getting further commoditized at the device/PC level and about not having an offsetting high margin [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=amazonconsultingblog.wordpress.com&blog=4289035&post=594&subd=amazonconsultingblog&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Channel Complexity &#8211;  Vendor/Partner Marriage Counseling</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Sep 2009 01:15:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Beth Vanni – Director, Market Intelligence
When psychologists ask most married couples about what creates conflict in their marriage, there is often a classic gender gap in perceptions.  Women will often talk about lack of sharing, communication and having joint goals &#8212; those long-term things in a marriage that create meaningful bonds.  Men will often [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=amazonconsultingblog.wordpress.com&blog=4289035&post=560&subd=amazonconsultingblog&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>VMworld 2009: Ahead in the Cloud</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Sep 2009 20:19:11 +0000</pubDate>
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I spent several days at VMworld 2009 last week where I was one of 12,000+ attendees (roughly, about ¼ of the attendees were partners) gathered to immerse ourselves in all things virtualization. There were a few new product announcements &#8211; all ripe with the notion of clouds and an overarching computing paradigm, but there were [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=amazonconsultingblog.wordpress.com&blog=4289035&post=548&subd=amazonconsultingblog&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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