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Asetek Combats Data Center Heat With Liquid Cooling
Heat is one of the biggest enemies in the data center, with the potential to cost both an enterprise and an IT department a lot of money. Heat generation in the data center contributes to system failures, reduces component life, increases environmental control costs and can be difficult and expensive to mitigate. Hardware vendor Asetek…
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Lenovo to Release ThinkPad T430u Ultrabook for Business
Lenovo is getting ready to release in the third quarter its first business ultrabook, the ThinkPad T430u, which sports a compact and lightweight frame of less than 0.8 inches thick and weighing in at less than 4 pounds. The 14-inch notebook, with a base price of $849, also features ThinkPad’s modern and minimalist island-style keyboard,…
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Hitachi Brings Big Storage to Mobile, Small Businesses
Hitachi Global Storage Technologies announced that it has added two new hard drives to its G-Technology series of storage devices. The new drives come in 1TB and 4TB sizes and are incorporated into the G-Technology G-Drive and G-Raid solutions. The new drives bring impressive amounts of storage space to what are considered mobile or small-business…
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Gartner: Enterprise Software, Telecom Will Power IT Spending
Worldwide IT spending is forecast to total $3.8 trillion in 2012, a 3.7 percent increase from 2011, according to the latest outlook by IT research firm Gartner. In 2011, worldwide IT spending totaled $3.7 trillion, up 6.9 percent from 2010 levels. The company revised downward its outlook for 2012 global IT spending from its previous…
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Xerox Corp. Buys Managed Print Services Provider
Need more proof that big legacy businesses are snapping up managed services providers in a big way? Xerox Corp announced this week that it has acquired LaserNetworks, a managed print services provider in Oakville, Ontario. The location expands Xerox’s geographic footprint as well in the managed print market. “Our acquisition of LaserNetworks expands our services…
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Ultrabooks Gain Favor Among SMBs in 2012: Techaisle
A recent Techaisle study on purchase intention of Ultrabooks reveals that at least 3.6 million Ultrabooks will be purchased by small to medium-size businesses in 2012, resulting in one in five PCs shipped to SMBs. While only 23 percent of SMBs are aware about Ultrabooks, 65 percent of those aware have shown intent to purchase.…