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Cisco Aims to Create Reseller Advantage with Clear Advantage
Cisco Systems Inc. has developed a new incentive program to encourage its partners to buy its MDS 9000 storage products. Although incentive programs are common in the storage arena, Cisco, based in San Jose, Calif., faced an additional challenge, since channel partners do not buy products directly from the company. Instead, they must purchase products…
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NEC Rolls Out Midrange Fault-Tolerant Server
NEC Solutions (America) Inc. is growing its line of fault-tolerant systems with the rollout this week of its midrange Express5800/320Lc server that combines software monitoring tools with the company’s high-availability platform. The new server, which will be available later this week, includes ExpressCluster Self Recovery Edition, or SRE, which offers IT administrators the ability to…
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IBM Beefs Up Its ILM Offerings
Customers are cementing ILM offerings from IBM deep in their storage environments for use as underpinnings to centrally create, nurture and dispose of growing data volumes. IBM beefed up its information lifecycle management portfolio of tiered, midrange products last week by unveiling new disk, tape and storage virtualization enhancements, buoyed by the launch of its…
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IE 7: No Phishing Allowed
Bill Gates used his opening keynote speech at the here Tuesday to preview the next version of Internet Explorer, which has lost a sizable chunk of its market share of late to open-source challenger Firefox. The announcement was a bit unexpected, given that Microsoft Corp. has done little in the way of development or marketing…
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IPS Devices Reach for High End
Two intrusion prevention system vendors unwrapped high-speed offerings this week, vying for customers at the high end of the IPS market. Sourcefire Inc., best known for its IDS (intrusion detection system) based on the Snort open-source tool, announced the availability of its IS5800 Series IPS appliances, which can run at line speeds as high as…
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HP’s Growth Goals Impact CEO Search
As Hewlett-Packard Co.’s board of directors begins the search for a new CEO, it must ward off competitors eager to lure away users during this time of transition. The board is looking for an executive search company to help find a replacement for Carly Fiorina, who resigned Feb. 8 at the request of directors who…
