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Microsoft Focuses on the Cloud at TechEd 2011
Atlanta—At the Microsoft TechEd North America 2011 conference here, Microsoft officials spoke on how to build, deploy, manage and scale applications for the cloud and for devices. In a keynote, Robert Wahbe, corporate vice president of the Server and Tools Marketing Group at Microsoft, said as the trend toward virtualization increases, the move to the…
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Autonomy Buys Iron Mountain’s Digital Storage Business for $380 Million
Iron Mountain has committed to refocusing itself on its 60-year-old core business, storage and protection of physical media and other property, and is getting out of the digital storage business. U.K.-based Autonomy, a fast-growing, multifaceted IT company, reported May 16 that it will acquire Iron Mountain’s digital archiving, e-discovery and online backup business for $380…
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HP Launches New Pavilion Desktop PCs
It’s an increasingly mobile world. The rise of smartphones and tablets has ushered in an era of “the PC in your pocket,” and each succeeding device seems to cram more and more memory and processing power into a smaller and smaller form-factor. Within this context, what use is the traditional desktop? Placed side-by-side with the…
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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…
