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Dell Overhauling Its PowerEdge Portfolio
Dell now wants to simplify its PowerEdge server portfolio. At the Oracle OpenWorld conference in San Francisco on Nov. 12, Dell will show off several new PowerEdge servers, including new systems with new 45-nanometer processors from Intel, as well as updates to its OpenManage management software. As part of its “Simplify IT” initiative, which looks…
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Ingram Micro to Offer Cisco MDS 9000 Series
Ingram Micro announced on Nov.12 it will offer Cisco’s MDS 9000 Series of storage area networking products, including both fabric switches and directors, allowing partners to bulk up their storage solution line cards. Cisco’s network-enabled storage products enable Ingram Micro channel partners to build storage solutions that include virtualized networks and remote backup, as well…
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Intel Poised to Enter New Era with Penryn
Intel is ready to enter the 45-nanometer era. As Intel CEO Paul Otellini detailed in his opening remarks at the 2007 Developer Forum, the company will bring its Penryn family of 45-nanometer processors to market Nov. 12. The official release will bring 16 new microprocessors to the company’s portfolio, including 12 quad-core models, three dual-core…
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Vendors Get Low Grades When It Comes to Managed Services
When you consider the number of platitudes that channel executives tend to throw around about their support for the channel and the actual amount of vendor support there is for managed services today, you can’t help but wonder if most of the vendors really are that clueless or just can’t seem to get out of…
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How EqualLogic Deal Will Change the Dell-EMC Dynamic
Dell’s $1.4 billion purchase of iSCSI storage systems maker EqualLogic—the largest acquisition in company history and one of the largest in the data storage genre, period—shocked more than a few people. But perhaps the most important shockee, however, was EMC—one of Dell’s most strategic systems partners. Certainly key people within EMC, the world’s largest…
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Alert Logic Pushes Log Management Into the Cloud
Alert Logic is using a software as a service business model to bring log management to midsized enterprises. The company’s new log management offering, dubbed Alert Logic Log Manager, provides fully indexed searching of all archived log data via a web portal. The data is archived in two separate Alert Logic data centers to ensure…
