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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…
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Nimbus Wants to Upset Enterprise Storage Market with Flash Storage
Nimbus Data Systems (www.nimbusdata.com) has unveiled its vision—Sustainable Storage—and architecture—S-class—for enterprise network storage that is believed to be the first all-solid-state-drive-based (SSD) solution for the same price as enterprise-class hard disks. The price/performance claims are impressive, but analysts caution that the claims remain to be substantiated in the real world. "This is clearly a stand-alone…
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Virtualization Rises as the Star of Networking Event
More than 80 percent of the products and solutions unveiled at this year’s Interop networking trade show are related to virtualization, representing a seismic shift in the culture and future of a technology space that has been dominated by switches, routers, and, well, networking technology. Today it’s about the data center. The three C’s of…