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Cisco Fires Back at HP, Talks Business Transformation
Even as HP was turning up the heat on Cisco Systems at its partner summit in Las Vegas, held April 26 to 28, Cisco was also acknowledging a new era of intense competition between the two companies during its own partner conference in San Francisco, held the same week. "We know you had a choice…
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Salesforce.com, VMware Launch VMforce
Salesforce.com and VMware have announced a partnership to jointly deliver, sell and support a new enterprise Java cloud called VMforce. VMforce, which is to be formally launched at an April 27 event in San Francisco hosted by the CEOs of the two companies, will bring together the technologies, expertise and communities of the two leading…
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Netgear Launches Value-Priced Gigabit Firewall
Netgear, a provider of networking solutions, announced the ProSafe Quad WAN Gigabit SSL VPN Firewall (SRX5308), a business-focused firewall that provides in excess of 1G bps performance for under $500, which translates to $0.50 per M bps. As the speed of WAN connections rise, and users turn to virtualization and cloud computing services, Netgear said…
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Hidden Cost of Specialization
U.S. small and midsized businesses spend more than $57 billion a year on IT goods and services, of which Hewlett-Packard owns a 20 percent market share. The key to increasing that share, says Meaghan Kelly, HP’s vice president of Channel Sales Development & Strategies, is solution providers focused on small business. At this week’s HP…
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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…