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Verizon, SAP/Sybase Offer Managed Mobile Services to End Customers
Carrier Verizon and ERP giant SAP’s mobile division, Sybase, are looking to channel partners for help with integration and application development for a new managed mobile services offering from Verizon based on the Sybase mobile platform. The companies announced the delivery of new managed mobile services this week. Verizon will now offer mobile applications, support,…
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SSDs Gaining Ground on Hard Disk Drives in PCs
(Reuters) – Solid-state drives have struggled to become standard in PCs, but manufacturers could soon follow Apple’s (NASDAQ:AAPL) lead and start using more of them as consumers warm to the benefits of flash storage. Increasingly used in smartphones, NAND flash storage is expensive but market leaders Samsung Electronics (KS:005930), Toshiba Corp (T:6502), SanDisk (NASDAQ:SNDK) and…
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EMC Acquires Isilon in $2.25B Storage Deal
NEW YORK, Nov 15 (Reuters) – EMC Corp (NYSE:EMC), the world’s biggest corporate data storage equipment maker, plans to buy smaller data storage firm Isilon Systems Inc (NASDAQ:ISLN) for about $2.25 billion, the latest in a series of multibillion dollar technology deals. The $33.85-a-share cash offer, announced by both companies on Monday, represents a 29…
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Cisco Unveils Virtualization Experience Infrastructure
Networking communications giant Cisco announced a wide-ranging desktop virtualization system and solutions comprising collaboration, borderless networking and data center technologies from the company and an ecosystem of virtualization vendors. Named the Cisco Virtualization Experience Infrastructure (VXI), the system design integrates Cisco’s Collaboration, Data Center Virtualization and Borderless Networks architectures with desktop virtualization software and devices.…
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Ingram Micro Expects Big Holiday Sales Boost
LOS ANGELES, Nov 15 (Reuters) – Ingram Micro Inc (NYSE:IM) expects holiday season unit shipments to rise by 2 million units per week over last year as online retailers see orders for technology goods pick up. Ingram Micro, the world’s No. 1 technology distributor and services provider, said it expects to ship 6 million products…