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Sungard Intros Storage Replication Service for Small Business
Data center software and services provider SunGard and storage partner EMC have come up with a new data replication service that enables IT managers of SMBs to get their systems back up and running quickly after an unplanned outage. Sungard on May 12 said its Availability Services’ Storage Replication Service will become available starting in…
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Bankers Trade Their BlackBerry Phones for Apple iPhones
(Reuters) – British bank Standard Chartered is replacing the BlackBerry, currently its standard corporate communications device, with the iPhone, a move that could eventually result in thousands of bankers switching to the Apple device for business communication on the go. Standard Chartered bankers in Asia told Reuters that the London-based lender was giving its corporate…
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Synology Offers Energy-Saving NAS Server
Synology America May 17 launched the DiskStation DS210+, a secure NAS server aimed at small to medium-size business users designed to share and back up data. The company claims the DS210+ is ideal for users who require a reliable data storage solution and high-performance file sharing. The small form factor and its encryption ability make…
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Infineta Introduces New Dedupe Engine
Network infrastructure startup Infineta Systems introduced its groundbreaking system architecture to power a new generation of products to address the urgent need for very high-speed enterprise data center interconnects. At the center of this architecture is Infineta’s Velocity Dedupe Engine, a hardware-based data reduction technology designed to increase levels of throughput, scalability and bandwidth capacity…
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Palm Drew Many Suitors Beyond HP
New details have emerged regarding Hewlett-Packard’s $1.2 billion acquisition of Palm. While the smartphone maker may have been financially struggling, it was hardly an unnoticed wallflower before HP came along, according to a proxy statement Palm filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission. The statement reads a bit like a novella, detailing the advancements,…
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Netbooks Still Red Hot
The market for netbooks or mini-notebooks is still expanding, with shipments expected to reach 58 million units in 2010, as consumers and business users continue to look for low-cost computing alternatives, according to a report from research firm ABI. In 2009, netbook shipments topped 36 million units, which was higher that ABI’s original forecast of…