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  • HP’s New Data Center Research Facility to Explore Green Tech

    Hewlett-Packard is opening a facility that will act as a testing ground for efficient and sustainable data center technologies. Unveiled March 30, the site in Fort Collins, Colo., will serve multiple purposes, including being used as a data center for internal applications run by HP as well as a test-bed for green data center operations.…

  • Cisco Updates Data Center Software, Hardware Lineups

    Cisco Systems has been making a large deal about converged data center hardware infrastructures for more than two years with its Unified Computing System, as increased functionality gets wedged into smaller components and servers and routers—and as Cisco got into the server business. Now the world’s biggest IT networking company and newbie data center systems…

  • Acer CEO Ousted as Tablets Cannabilize Laptops

    TAIPEI, March 31 (Reuters) – Taiwan’s Acer , the world’s No. 2 PC vendor, replaced its chief executive in a surprise move on Thursday, barely a week after it gave a downbeat outlook that wiped more than $1 billion off its market value in four days. Its Italian chief executive, Gianfranco Lanci, will leave the…

  • Google Cloud Print Gets a Partner in HP

    HP March 31 made it possible for users of Google Cloud Print to print documents, Web pages and other files to any HP ePrint-enabled printer from any supporting Web, mobile or desktop application on any computer or smartphone. HP is the first major printer maker to officially pick up the Cloud Print cause. Interested users…

  • Goodbye March – Channel Headlines Around the Web

    Image by Robert Scoble via Flickr Joe Panettieri at MSPMentor reports yet another MSP merger/acquisition deal – the 15th he’s tracked in 2011. This one, in Western Canada, has VODA Computer Systems Ltd. and Graycon Group Ltd merging. Meanwhile, over at Channelnomics, Larry Walsh offers seven tips he’s gathered for MSPs who are looking to…

  • Dell Pans iPad as Too Complex, Costly for Business

    A Dell executive is attracting a massive amount of attention for suggesting the Apple iPad will eventually bomb in the enterprise. “Apple is great if you’ve got a lot of money and live on an island,” Andy Lark, who leads the global marketing efforts for Dell’s Large Enterprise Group, told CIO Australia in a March…

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