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  • HP Adds Yet Another New Storage Product for SMBs

    Hewlett-Packard’s engineers keep cranking out data storage product after product for small to midsize businesses and larger companies with small remote offices. On Feb. 26, the Palo Alto, Calif., computer/server maker introduced a modestly priced (under $3,000) disk-based backup and recovery system that automates backup to provide data protection for as many as four servers…

  • HP Offers Networking, Workstation Products

    Hewlett-Packard is looking to add an extra layer of virtualization to the data center. On Feb. 27, the Palo Alto, Calif., IT company will expand its Virtual Connect Architecture for its c-Class blade platform with new Ethernet and Fibre Channel modules. In keeping with its blade agenda, HP also announced that it will start to…

  • Dell Customers Say What They Want, Aren’t Getting

    Less than two weeks after PC maker Dell premiered Dell IdeaStorm, a Digg-like Web site focused on determining which improvements customers want made to Dell’s products and services, visitors have submitted more than 2,000 ideas and nearly 150,000 visitors have voted on those ideas. Visitors’ top concerns relate to the issues of open-source software and…

  • Microsoft Forms Business Process Alliance, Develops BPM Roadmap

    Microsoft is honing in on business process management with the formation of the Microsoft Business Process Alliance and the release of a BPM roadmap that will include a key standard—Business Process Execution Language—in the Windows Workflow Foundation. The company announced Feb. 26 at the Gartner BPM Summit in San Diego that it has formed the…

  • Synnex Buys PC Wholesale from Insight

    IT distributor Synnex has made its second acquisition in less than a week, announcing Feb 27 that it plans to acquire the assets of another IT distributor, PC Wholesale, a wholly owned division of Insight Direct USA, in a deal worth about $30 million. The deal gives Synnex, based in Fremont, Calif., a foothold in…

  • Appro Launches AMD-Based Workstation

    Appro International, an IT company known for producing high-density computer and server clusters, is taking a aim at vertical markets with a new workstation based on dual-core Opteron processors from Advanced Micro Devices. The workstation, which will be based on 64-bit, x86 architecture, will utilize AMD’s Opteron 8000 series dual-core processors. In addition, Appro will…

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