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IP PBX Company Turns Focus to Channel
Vertical Communications was born a little less than a year ago, when the company’s leadership merged two longtime IP PBX players, Artisoft and Vertical Networks, in hopes of gaining critically needed traction in the crowded computer-based telephony field. In recent months, the Cambridge, Mass.-based company has been busy–both working to merge the best of Vertical…
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VARs On Guard Against August Virus Outbreaks
For many, August means summer vacations and watermelon, not desperate struggles with newly emerging viruses and other types of malware. For IT folk, however, summer heat and security threats go hand in hand. “August is a big month for viruses. We know when all the big viruses have gone out in the last fifteen years,…
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Managed Services Is Just the Tip of the Iceberg
The managed business model seems tailor-made for the VAR community. Any VAR not seriously looking into providing this type of service for its clients, whether it be on the database, network, security, server or storage management front, is missing a huge opportunity. And I am here to tell you that 99 percent of VARs that…
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IBM Woos SMBs with Open-Source Tools
IBM has announced plans to extend Linux support for its collaboration tools and to release to the open-source community its framework for searching unstructured data. Continuing its push to woo small businesses into adopting its portal-based Workplace Services Express team collaboration offering, IBM teamed up with Red Hat Inc. to make it easier for SMBs…
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Intel Cuts P4 Prices
Intel Corp. over the weekend cut prices on its 64-bit line of desktop processors. The Santa Clara, Calif., chip maker reduced the cost of its five single-core Pentium 4 6xx chips from 20.15 percent to 33.72 percent. All feature 2MB of Level 2 cache and an 800MHz front-side bus, with the key difference being the…
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Intel Swaps Clock Speed for Power Efficiency
Intel, which next week is expected to announce plans to move to a new processor architecture, is switching to a new yardstick to measure processor performance: performance per watt. Intel Corp. is expected to detail next week at its IDF (Intel Developer Forum) a plan to begin building multicore chips with the architecture, a modified…
