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HP, Cisco Initiatives Highlight Data Center Convergence
Got unified computing? These days vendors are pushing these technologies—preintegrated storage, servers, networking and virtualization—in the form of products or reference designs as the answer for all that ails the data center. The message to customers is that these systems make things all work together more efficiently, saving management time, improving system functions and perhaps…
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Zlago, NMGI Partner to Tackle Accounting Market
At the ConnectWise Partner Summit today, managed service provider Network Management Group Inc. (NMGI) and Zlago, a provider of cloud-based Microsoft applications and services, will announce a strategic partnership to form a master VAR relationship to enable resellers to deliver cloud apps to the accounting market. According to the joint announcement, NMGI will resell Zlago’s…
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Microsoft to Set Up Cloud Research Center in Taiwan
(Reuters) – Microsoft Corp. and Taiwan’s economics ministry said they plan to set up a research center on the island by next year, in the software company’s first Asian foray into the budding cloud computing industry. Cloud computing — the hosting and storage of services and data on remote centralized computers, is expected to cut…
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Cisco, EMC, VMware Take Pre-Packaged Data Center Solution Vblock to Channel Partners
Looking to make it easier for channel partners to deploy data center and cloud technology at customer sites, Cisco has formed a coalition with EMC and VMware which will create reference designs for an infrastructure architecture it calls Vblock which incorporates technologies from all three companies including Cisco’s Unified Computing line up of products. The…
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Cisco, EMC Reportedly Join Forces On Cloud Computing
(Reuters) – Cisco Systems Inc (CSCO.O) and EMC Corp (EMC.N) are teaming up to sell a new line of networking gear, computers and storage equipment designed for use with cloud computing, according to sources familiar with their plans. The line of products, dubbed vBlock, position the two companies to better compete against IBM (IBM.N) and…
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Nirvanix Extends Cloud Storage Reach With Channel
The size of the cloud services market may be in dispute — Gartner predicts it will surpass $56.3 billion this year and hit $150 billion by 2013, while IDC finds the market far smaller, believing it won’t pass the $42 billion mark until 2012 — nobody disputes that it exists and that there is opportunity…