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EMC Pulls the Pieces Together
Chief executive Joe Tucci is transforming EMC Corp. from a successful storage hardware maker to a developer of software that manages the data sitting in those disk arrays. At the EMC Analyst Day event in New York this month, Tucci predicted his Hopkinton, Mass., company would reach $8.1 billion in revenue this year, with much…
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EMC Extends Device Management
EMC Corp. is bulking up its ControlCenter storage resource management platform and expanding its offerings for managed service providers—two cornerstones of its strategy for centralizing management of heterogeneous storage infrastructures. ControlCenter 5.2, which the Hopkinton, Mass., company will introduce this week, adds a broad slate of connectivity features for managing multivendor storage environments, including interoperability…
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Microsoft Software Assurance: Opportunities Lurking for Resellers?
How can Microsoft do a better job with its Software Assurance licensing customers? Interviews with partners and users point in several directions: more compelling product releases, lower SA pricing, a less complex service model and major marketing improvements on Microsoft’s part. Meanwhile, some of the biggest fishes in Microsoft’s licensing pond see opportunities for smaller…
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You Don’t Have to Outsource out of the Country
The jobs are going away. They won’t be back. Here in my home, in the Blue Ridge Mountains of western North Carolina, it’s mostly light manufacturing jobs. But in the Silicon Valley; in Austin, Texas; in the Washington Beltway; and in Boston; it’s programming and help-desk jobs. In Redmond, Wash., it’s software architecture. You can…
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Proxim To Ship WiMax Equipment In 2005
Proxim Corp. said Thursday that it plans to ship fixed and portable versions of WiMax technology next year through a partnership with Intel. Intel, which is developing WiMax (or IEEE 802.16) silicon for shipment later this year, said it will work with Proxim to develop bases stations based on the technology early next year, then…
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PeopleSoft Granted Hefty Discounts to Outsell Oracle
SAN FRANCISCO—PeopleSoft Inc. was prepared approve discounts of up to 55 percent off list price to win business from Oracle Corp. and other competitors, a PeopleSoft sales executives testified Wednesday in U.S. District Court here. PeopleSoft didn’t hesitate to discount heavily whenever it was competing head-to-head with Oracle for new business or when it stood…
