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(Reuters) – Hewlett-Packard Co (NYSE:HPQ) won the bidding war to buy data storage company 3PAR Inc (NYSE:PAR) for $2.4 billion, after rival Dell Inc (NASDAQ:DELL) bowed out from a drawn-out bidding war on Thursday. HP raised its offer by $3 to $33 per share, beating Dell’s latest $32-a-share offer and ending an exchange of bids […]

Looking to provide more comprehensive cloud offerings and services VMware announced the acquisition of two companies during a keynote address at VMworld this week. VMware will acquire Integrien, a real time application and infrastructure performance analytics software provider and TriCipher, a provider of secure access management and enterprise identity federation for cloud-hosted software as a […]

ViewSonic is ready to roll out its Android-based, 7-inch mini-tablet multitouch device, called the ViewPad, at the IFA 2010 show in Berlin, which begins Sept. 3. This tablet is expected to compete against better-known offerings from Apple and Samsung. >>Click here to read the rest of the story

Look at many of the most successful IT solution providers today and they are likely members of peer groups, such as HTG Peer Groups, a network of IT solution provider executives that collaborate and share business best practices on a regular basis. Now HTG Peer Groups is expanding to include additional segments of the IT […]

The U.S. manufacturing sector grew faster than expected in August but private employers unexpectedly cut jobs, showing the economic recovery still faces headwinds. The 13th straight month of manufacturing expansion calmed fears that U.S. economy may head back into recession, but the drop in employment and a slump in construction spending to a 10-year low […]

Looking to create a catalyst to spur enterprises to move the cloud, VMware has unveiled a host of new cloud infrastructure products and services designed to expand its offerings through the enablement of a hybrid cloud model that bridges private and public clouds. The virtualization giant made the announcements this week at its VMworld conference […]

Aug 31 (Reuters) – Google Inc (NASDAQ:GOOG) is set to unveil a new feature to its Gmail service that aims to separate a user’s important emails from the ones that do not get read often. The new feature called "Priority Inbox" will help users focus on messages that matter without having to set up complex […]

SAN FRANCISCO Aug 31 (Reuters) – Technology research firm Gartner cut its forecast for personal computer sales for the second half of the year by 2 percent, signaling that a resurgence in tech spending that started earlier this year may not be as strong as expected. Worldwide PC shipments are now projected to grow by […]

Isilon  has integrated the iSCSI protocol into its OneFS operating system, delivering what the company says is the industry’s first unified scale-out storage platform for the enterprise. The advance enables Isilon scale-out storage users to consolidate file- and block-based applications onto a single, shared pool of storage. Isilon announced the simplified data management, available for […]

FRANKFURT Aug 29 (Reuters) – U.S. chipmaker Intel (NASDAQ:INTC) is near a deal to buy German chipmaker Infineon’s (IFXGn) wireless business and could pay more than 1 billion euros ($1.27 billion), people familiar with the matter said on Sunday. Intel and Infineon were hammering out final details of an agreement and the deal was expected […]

SAN FRANCISCO — Open standards storage maker FalconStor, which provides the array software for a number of major systems makers, Aug. 30 demonstrated a new storage area network accelerator and a data protection pacakge at VMworld 2010 specifially for VMware’s View control suite. >>Click here to read the rest of the story

Microsoft has decided that Windows Live Sync, its cloud-syncing service, will receive a name change—actually, make that a name reversion—to Windows Live Mesh. In addition, the service will now offer 5GB of free cloud-storage space, up from 2GB, and the ability to sync hidden files. >>Click here to read the rest of the story.