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  • HP, Dell Quarter Earnings Soothe Recession Fears

    SAN FRANCISCO, Aug 19 (Reuters) – Dell Inc (NASDAQ:DELL) and Hewlett-Packard Co (NYSE:HPQ) dismissed worries about weakening technology demand, reporting broad-based strength from corporate customers and only hints of weakness from consumers. Both faced questions on Thursday about the strength of the recovery in spending on technology, after Cisco Systems Inc (NASDAQ:CSCO) CEO John Chambers’…

  • Rise Launches Cloud Services for Channel Partners

    Rise, a division of U.K.-based Web hosting company Fasthosts Internet, announced it has expanded its channel-focused cloud computing offerings for small to medium-size businesses (SMBs) in North America. The company also announced its first U.S.-based channel partner, Titanium Ant, an IT consultancy and technology management company based in Seattle. Rise has more than 1 million…

  • Intel, McAfee Deal: Quick Takeaways and Potential Ramifications

    While no one seems to have expected this particular combination of companies – Intel, a dominant force in the chip space, particularly processors, and McAfee, a major player in the security space – once you start to think about the $7.68 billion deal and what McAfee could offer Intel, it starts to make a lot…

  • CA Technologies Announces IT Client Manager 12.5

    IT management software and solutions company CA Technologies announced the latest version of IT Client Manager (ITCM), a solution that extends and automates enterprise capabilities to inventory, manage and deploy physical and virtualized systems and applications. ITCM r12.5 provides application virtualization support, including registering, deploying, detecting, reporting on and updating Microsoft App-V and VMware ThinApp…

  • How the Intel Acquisition Will Affect McAfee’s Channel Parters

    What will Intel’s acquisition of McAfee mean to McAfee’s channel partner program? It’s still early days on this deal, so no one knows for sure yet, but the smart money is that Intel is unlikely to change it much for a couple reasons. First, Intel said in its statement announcing plans to acquire McAfee that…

  • Dell, HP Quarter Results Expected to be Solid

    Dell (NASDAQ:DELL) and HP (NYSE:HPQ) will likely post solid results when they report their calendar second quarter earnings on August 19. The results are likely to be closely scrutinized by technology industry watchers who may be a bit skittish after Cisco’s executives talked about increased uncertainty in the enterprise market in conjunction with the networking…

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