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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…
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Seagate Debuts GoFlex Satellite Mobile Wireless Storage for iPhone, iPad
Storage solutions specialist Seagate announced the release of the GoFlex Satellite mobile wireless storage, a battery-powered external hard drive to wirelessly extend the storage capacity of a WiFi-enabled mobile device. With 500GB and WiFi access over 802.11 b/g/n and a rechargeable battery, this latest member of the GoFlex family wirelessly connects mobile devices directly to…
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HP Introduces Network Management Center 9.1 for MSPs, Cloud Management
Hewlett-Packard announced the launch of HP Network Management Center version 9.1, adding additional features for managed service providers, cloud computing and unified communications management. For MSPs, HP has introduced multi-tenancy capability and security groups that allow users to separate data and views into secure partitions. MSPs can manage multiple clients, departments or sites within the…
