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HP Optimistic on Print Managed Services
Sales of workstation and desktop printers took a beating during the recession as business made do with the legacy equipment. But what didn’t happen was a decrease in printed pages, and that’s making Hewlett-Packard bullish on its printer and print managed services business. “There’s a large install base of products that could be refreshed because…
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Compellent Consolidates File And Block-Level Storage
In what could be considered unusual timing, Eden Prairie, Minn.-based Compellent Technologies has announced zNAS, which consolidates file and block-level storage on a single platform based on the ZFS file system. The timing is interesting because zNAS won’t ship until the end of June, and the company, which is 100 percent channel, is holding its…
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HP Buys Palm for $1.2B, Targets iPhone, Android, iPad
HP (NYSE: HPQ) has agreed to acquire Palm Inc. (NASDAQ: PALM)for $1.2 billion, giving the 70-year-old technology juggernaut a foothold in the mobile handset market while at the same time it rescues the Palm platform in an increasingly fast-moving and competitive market. HP said in a statement that the combination of HP’s global scale and…
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Compellent Offers Open Source Network-Attached Storage System
Compellent, a progressive-thinking data storage company that was an early mover to the idea of providing unified connectivity, on April 27 launched the first network-attached system based entirely on the open-source Zettabyte File System. The 128-bit ZFS, which numerous storage network developers have described as extraordinarily fast, is an in-demand open-source software package for handling…
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LifeSize Offers Disruptive Price on Video Broadcast Services
LifeSize, the value-based video conferencing telepresence upstart, is now offering a streaming video system for broadcast-like streaming capabilities but without the cost of installing a whole video studio. The system requires a LifeSize end point system be used to create the video, enabling the encoding to be performed at that client, leaving the server appliance…
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HP Signals Call to Arms against Cisco, Dell
Hewlett-Packard executives wasted no time and few words at its annual partner conference in Las Vegas calling on partners to rise to the competitive challenges posed by its chief rivals—Cisco Systems and Dell. In an ironic coincidence of scheduling, the HP and Cisco partner conferences are happening simultaneously. And HP executives almost gleefully acknowledged that…