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Earnings Give Solutions Providers a Lift
Solid quarterly earnings from multiple companies gave distributors and solutions providers a lift during the week ended April 23. Of our 30 index members, the week’s biggest advancers were Arrow Electronics Inc. (ARW, +7.76 percent), Agilysys Inc. (AGYS, +5.42 percent), DiamondCluster International Inc. (DTPI, +4.45 percent), Tech Data Corp. (TECD, +4.06 percent) and Avnet Inc.…
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Feds Making Plans for Security Clearinghouse
The federal government is developing plans for a secure network operations center for all security information flowing to and from the government. The security operations center would be separate from other such facilities at federal agencies and would not necessarily be concerned with monitoring the operations of production government networks. Instead, the SOC would be…
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Could IT Mood Swings Boost Enterprise Desktop Linux?
SAN DIEGO—Linux on end users’ desktops remains largely elusive for enterprises, but the open-source operating system could become more attractive as the demands of IT departments shift, said panelists and attendees at the Desktop Linux Summit 2004 here. Microsoft Corp., the maker of the dominant Windows operating system, and other proprietary software vendors themselves could…
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Kumar Exit Prompts CA User Worries
Efforts by Computer Associates International Inc. to be seen as both a technology vendor and a trusted partner are in peril after a week of scandal-driven turmoil culminating with the company’s top executive being stripped of his leadership position. The board of directors’ removal of Sanjay Kumar from his roles as chairman and CEO also…
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Dell Will Join Opteron Party, AMD CEO Says
NEW YORK—Hewlett-Packard Co., IBM and Sun Microsystems Inc. have all jumped onto the Opteron bandwagon. Dell Inc. remains the only top-tier server maker yet to adopt the 64-bit processor. However, if Hector de Ruiz is to be believed, Dell will be signing on, and maybe sooner than later. At an event here Thursday marking the…
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IBM SAN Volume Controller to Support Rivals’ Wares
IBM is aiming to help customers bridge a major storage interoperability chasm by announcing Friday that its TotalStorage SAN Volume Controller v.1.2 will support and manage bitter rival EMC Corp.’s Symmetrix and CLARiiON hardware storage arrays, as well as Hitachi Data Systems (HDS) Corp.’s Lightning disk-based offerings. Available April 30, TotalStorage SAN Volume Controller v.1.2…
