Recent Articles
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Storage, Security Convergence Isn’t Easy, but It’s Vital
The proposed merger of Veritas and Symantec could bring much-needed convergence between security and storage management. On the surface, it might seem like storage and security management have little to do with each other, but uniting these tools, although it would be a difficult and long-term undertaking, could greatly simplify end-to-end data management. A successful…
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IBM, Dell Bound for Sonoma
IBM and Dell Inc. are among several PC makers rolling out notebooks that take advantage of Intel Corp.’s new, speedy Sonoma chip set. Sonoma, the latest version of the popular Centrino chip set, will appear in 150 notebook models by year’s end, said Intel officials in Santa Clara, Calif. Sonoma features a 533MHz front-side bus…
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The European-U.S. Reseller Connection
Europe has eclipsed the United States as the world’s leading outsourcing market. That’s the analysis of TPI, which studies the global outsourcing market. According to the market researcher, Europe in 2004 represented 49 percent of the value of the major outsourcing deals awarded worldwide. TPI defines “major” as contracts worth more than 40 million EUR…
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IBM Unveils New Low-Cost OpenPower Server
IBM next month will roll out an entry-level two-way OpenPower server designed to compete with Hewlett-Packard Co.’s and Sun Microsystems Inc.’s volume Linux and Unix offerings. IBM, of Armonk, N.Y., introduced the OpenPower line in September 2004 as a way of bringing the 64-bit Power5 architecture into the growing volume Linux server space. The first…
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Suppose IBM-Lenovo Deal Doesn’t Happen
The word on the street, and among a few scattered news sources, is that the proposed sale of IBM’s personal computer division is in trouble with the feds. Specifically, the trouble is said to come from the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS), which is sponsored by the Treasury Department and consists…
