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VMware CTO Highlights vSphere 5 Advantages
LAS VEGAS — VMware CTO Steve Herrod used his keynote address at VMworld to focus on the newly released flagship vSphere 5 while also showing technologies that leverage VMware s leadership position in data center and desktop virtualization. ” The most exciting thing I have to announce is the largest VM to date,” Herrod told…
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Widows 8 Ready for Both Tablets and PCs, Microsoft Exec Says
Ahead of September s BUILD conference, Microsoft is taking steps to position its upcoming Windows 8 as a platform meant equally for tablets and traditional PCs. Even before it began offering sanctioned glimpses of Windows 8 earlier this summer, Microsoft touted the operating system s interoperability with tablets. During this past January’s Consumer Electronics Show…
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Sony’s First Android Tablet to Ship in September
Sony says it will ship two Android Honeycomb tablets in the coming weeks: the Sony Tablet S with an innovative fold-over look in September, and the Tablet P with a dual-screen clamshell design by the end of 2011. The 9.4-inch, 1,280×768-pixel touch-screen of the Tablet S (code-named S1) resembles a pad of paper with sheets…
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HP Strategy Leaves Opening for Apple, Dell: Analysts
Hewlett-Packard’ s plan to spin off its Personal Systems Group, its PC manufacturing arm, could damage the company s position with small to midsize businesses, according to a pair of analysts. ” Our prognosis is that without PSG, HP’ s value proposition will be much weaker in SMBs,” Sanjeev Aggarwal and Laurie McCabe, analysts with…
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Content and Network Security See Strong Growth
The global content security gateway market continues to gain at a steady clip, growing at more than double the rate of standard network security products according to a new report out by analysts with Infonetics Research. The report found that security gateway appliances and software market sales grew 8 percent in the second quarter of…