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Backup and Recovery Issues Ahead with Virtualization, Cloud
A survey of more than 3,000 small to medium-size businesses (SMB) conducted by the Ponemon Institute revealed that while attitudes towards backup and recovery differ widely around the world, businesses everywhere want a single backup and recovery solution for physical, virtual and cloud environments. The vast majority (68 percent) of IT managers agree that their…
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EMC Launches New Storage Lineup
Storage giant EMC likes to do product launches in a big way. But on Jan. 18 the company outdid even itself with a rollout of 41 new enterprise storage products, the most it has introduced at one sitting. EMC’s new items, which will become available this quarter, include a line of low-end storage servers aimed…
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1. Tablets, Tablets, Tablets
1. Tablets, Tablets, Tablets Apple’s iPad has been a huge success in the consumer market. And due to that success, it’s starting to make some inroads in the enterprise. IT decision-makers are buying them for employees, and in some cases, allowing employees to buy them on their own and bring them to their operation. It’s…
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Windows Phone 7 Launch Disappointing, LG Exec Says
Microsoft’s Windows Phone 7 smartphone is proving an early disappointment, at least according to one LG Electronics executive. “From an industry perspective we had a high expectation, but from a consumer point of view the visibility is less than we expected,” James Choi, a marketing strategy and planning team director for LG Electronics, apparently told…
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Apple CEO Steve Jobs Goes on Indefinite Medical Leave
Apple CEO Steve Jobs announced Jan. 17 in an e-mail to Apple employees that he’ll be taking another medical leave of absence to focus on his health. Jobs didn’t offer any details about his health, or how long he plans to be on his board-sanctioned leave, but he wrote that he’ll continue to act as…
