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Lenovo Launches ThinkPad X1, ThinkCenter Edge 91z PC
NEW YORK — News of the super-thin Lenovo ThinkPad X1 notebook may have leaked weeks ago, but that didn’t stop the company from giving a proper, enthusiastic welcome to the notebook it’s calling one of its most interesting products ever. At a dinner here for members of the press May 11, Lenovo executives showed off…
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Kill Chrome OS
Kill Chrome OS The first thing Steve Jobs would do as head of Google would be to kill off Chrome OS, the cloud-based operating system coming to Chromebooks next month. Chrome OS isn’t as powerful as desktop operating systems, making it only useful for netbooks. And even then, the functionality won’t match Windows. Steve Jobs…
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VMware Acquires Cloud-Based IT Management Specialist Shavlik Technologies
Virtualization and cloud infrastructure specialist VMware announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Shavlik Technologies, a provider of cloud-based IT management solutions for small and midsize businesses. Shavlik Technologies provides a portfolio of on-premise and SAAS-based management solutions designed to help SMBs manage, monitor and secure their IT environments while addressing…
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Lenovo’s IT Mettle vs. Google Chromebook
Image via Wikipedia Google’s Chromebook notebook play, announced during the company’s Google I/O conference, may be aimed at businesses, governments, and educational institutions, as well as consumers, but will any of these end-users or end-user organizations be interested in buying what Google wants to sell, or lease, as the case may be? Google’s hardware-as-a-service (HaaS)…
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Unplanned IT Outages Cost More than $5,000 per Minute: Report
Data center managers and CTOs already know that system downtime can be very expensive for an enterprise, but it’s possible they may not know the real extent of that expense when servers, networking and storage suffer a major outage. New industry research from Emerson Network Power released this week at the Uptime Institute Symposium in…
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IBM’s New Program Tries to Lure Customers Away from the Competition
IBM has launched yet another effort to get its competitors’ customers to move over to IBM’s software and systems. In particular, IBM is targeting Oracle with new migration resources to help Oracle software customers switch to IBM software. The new resources include no-charge financial and technology assessments, skills training courses, and proof of concepts to…
