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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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • Sony Says Goodbye to Storage Icon, Floppy Disks

    The 3.5-inch floppy disk’s long, slow, unceremonious march toward its death came to an end on Friday, when Sony announced it will end domestic sales of the disk by the end of the year, and end production of the disks by March 2011. Japan’s Mainichi Daily newspaper reported  Sony, which commands a 70 percent market…

  • Channel Insider’s Guide to Zero Client Virtualization

    Virtualization is changing how enterprises work. The technology has impacted storage, servers and now the desktop. Today many enterprise IT departments are extending the power of virtualization by turning to Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) solutions. When properly implemented, VDI moves the desktop operating system into the datacenter, turning the end point into little more than…

  • Cisco CleanAir Technology Offers WLAN Troubleshooting

    LAS VEGAS, Nev. – At the Interop IT Expo and Conference, Cisco Systems unveiled new CleanAir Technology comprised of spectrum analysis and diagnosis tools designed to help wireless administrators maintain more stable and consistent wireless LAN performance. Comprised of a new line of Aironet access points with specialized embedded detection hardware and new software revisions…

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