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Dell Partners With VMware, Salesforce on Cloud Systems
With its design-it-yourself PCs in the 1980s and ’90s, Dell liberated personal computing in its own image. Later, it developed its own servers, resold and serviced storage hardware from EMC, and made it all economically attractive for its marketing sweet spots midrange and small businesses to purchase and deploy. Now, in 2011, the company Michael…
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DOJ Sues to Stop ATT, T-Mobile Buy
The United States Department of Justice filed an antitrust lawsuit Aug. 31 that seeks to prevent the merger of AT&T and T-Mobile USA, a division of Deutsche Telekom. The proposed $39 billion merger would reduce competition for mobile wireless communications services across the United States, according to a statement provided by the Justice Department. The…
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Microsoft Reveals Windows 8 Storage Format Support Details
Microsoft is continuing its public deep-geek dive into the particulars of Windows 8, with a new corporate blog entry focusing on the upcoming operating system s easy interoperability with two popular file-storage formats. “The trend of incredibly large- and small-form-factor hard discs means we can store ever increasing amounts of data without worrying about running…
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Intel Forms Subsidiary to Work With Federal Government
Technology giant Intel Corporation announced the formation of a wholly owned subsidiary, Intel Federal, to provide strategic focus in order to better address new opportunities in working with the U.S. government. Initially, Intel Federal will focus on the high-performance computing segment, including work on exascale computing with the U.S. Department of Energy and other agencies.…
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Businesses Gain Agility, Cut Costs with Server Virtualization: Report
Small businesses are moving steadily toward more virtualized computing infrastructures, with server virtualization – running multiple, independent, virtual operating systems on a single server – increasing the productivity, agility and scalability of computing resources and the business itself, with an attending boost in a company’s return on its information technology (IT) investments, according to a…