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HP Targets LTO-3 Customers With LTO-5 Blitz
While representing only a fraction of disk sales — $4 billion versus $16 billion in 2009 — tape sales continue to grow, led by the Linear Tape Open (LTO) format, which accounted for 83 percent of total tape sales. HP, market leader of this segment with 32 percent share, is refreshing its entire lineup with…
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Apple’s iPad Already a Flop?
Apple channel partners have told Channel Insider that their customers are plenty interested in Apple’s iPad, asking to buy the $500-plus tablet-sized device through the channel. Certainly Apple’s iPhone has been making more inroads into business strongholds. But a new report from market research company NDP Group shows consumers who are most aware of the…
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AMD Shoots Back at Intel with Server Chips as Dell, HP Announce Support
Looking to beat Intel in performance per watt, Advanced Micro Devices has announced the availability of its most recent server platform, the first eight- and 12-core x86 processors for high-volume 2P and value 4P servers. Server makers HP, Dell, Acer, Cray and SGI immediately announced support with new systems based on the new AMD Magny-Cours…
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Green with Frustration
Green with Frustration It’s hip to be green, and the buzz is big around Smart Grids because of their purported ability to reduce consumption with intelligent technologies aimed at streamlining and conserving. But, the survey of top utility honchos shows the lack of standards, definitions and realistic price estimates have utility companies moving slowly and…
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Cloud Complexity Means Opportunity for MSPs
Image via Wikipedia Level Platforms CEO Peter Sandiford recently posted the latest edition of his blog series on Seven MSP Megatrends. Number two of the seven megatrends is SAAS and cloud computing changing the game. Sandiford points out that all the major technology vendors have already gotten into the game with some kind of SAAS/Cloud…
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HP Preps More Products for Microsoft Communications Server 14
HP is building on a unified communications and collaboration partnership it announced in May 2009 with Microsoft by announcing the next batch of products in a continually growing line-up of Microsoft Communications Server-ready offerings. The new products, which will be released at about the same time Microsoft Communications Server launches this fall, reflect two categories…
