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Intel, AMD Must Evolve to Succeed
CEO Paul Otellini says the industry should stop viewing Intel as solely a chip maker and come to see it as a computing business, complete with software and services. For its part, AMD, with its Vision strategy, is looking to change how consumers buy PCs; at the same time, the company sees the 2011 release…
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Vitagliano Takes Over Americas Channels at Juniper
Juniper Networks’ global sales and channel leader for the last four years, Frank Vitagliano, has been named senior vice president of partners-Americas—a new position focused entirely on enabling and growing Juniper sales through carrier, service and reseller partners. "This is exactly what I want to do," Vitagliano said in an interview the morning of May…
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Xerox President Aims for Dominance
When Russell Peacock surveys his new domain as chief of Xerox North America, he sees a brand that has high recognition and appeal in the market, but only 40 percent coverage of IT decision makers and 18 percent market share. His goal: Drive that coverage to 50 percent of decision makers and 20 percent market…
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Verizon Plans Cloud Security Offering
Verizon Business outlined its strategy for pushing its security portfolio into the cloud. The announcement is meant to complement the company’s on-premise MSS (managed security service) offerings, and will be rolled out in phases between June and early next year. “Secure connectivity is the natural entrée into higher-end services of the everything-as-a-service model…CAAS, cloud-based storage…
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EMC’s DD Boost Provides Distributed Deduplication
EMC execs must love the month of May, when the company can host and feed scores of partners and customers, do some razzle-dazzling of potential buyers, and share news of new products and services at its EMC World conference. Usually, the event is staged in a resort-like place like Orlando, Fla. This year, the world’s…
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Software Piracy Rises in 2009, Costing Industry $51 Billion
The software piracy rate inched up globally last year, costing the IT industry billions of dollars, according to the seventh annual Business Software Alliance/IDC Global Software Piracy Study. The piracy rate is the percentage of software installed on PCs in a given year that is unlicensed. In 2009, that rate increased two percentage points to…
