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Western Digital Debuts My Book Live Duo Personal Cloud Storage Platform
Digital storage solutions specialist Western Digital (WD) introduced My Book Live Duo, a personal cloud storage system that combines shared storage and remote access with double-safe backup or increased capacity of a dual-drive system with RAID (Redundant Array of Independent Disks) technology. My Book Live Duo is available in 4TB and 6TB capacities and is…
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Mistakes, I’ve Made a Few
I sold my MSP business. At every sale, there are always a large number of success claims about how it was built to sell, and how everyone is delighted about the sale of their company. Many go on to tell war stories about how “they did it”, assuming that the advice is useful and everyone…
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Small Business Hiring, Compensation Up in December: Intuit
Small businesses created 55,000 new jobs in December and employees worked more hours and made more money, according to the results of this month’s update of the Intuit’s Small Business Employment Index, covering the period between Nov. 24 and Dec. 23. The monthly report found that small business employment grew by 0.3 percent in December,…
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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…