Recent Articles
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More Users Plan Microsoft Windows 7 Upgrade Before SP1 Release
New research from recent Dell acquisition Kace finds 87 percent of IT professionals surveyed plan to deploy Windows 7, up dramatically from a similar study done in April 2009. Of more significance to the channel, almost half of the 900 respondents plan to move to Windows 7 before the anticipated summer release of Service Pack…
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Storage Technologies Vie for Dominance
The jury is still out on iSCSI replacing Fibre Channel in the enterprise storage area network market, but the situation will get more interesting within the next few years for FC versus Fibre Channel over Ethernet. That’s according to Dell’Oro Group analyst Seamus Crehan, who tells Channel Insider that the FC-SAN market experienced broad-based record…
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Fed’s New Broadband Plan Worthy
The subject line was very catchy – “Free Broadband from the Government Good/Bad”. One of the discussion groups I’m on lit up with a discussion about the government and a broadband plan. Since my office has a reasonably nice view of the US Marine Corps Memorial, and my morning commute gives me a nice view…
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Google Apps Adds Server-Side Microsoft Exchange Migration Tool
Google ramped up the noise for its Google Apps this week by offering a new server-side tool to help organizations and partners migrate company email, calendar and contact data from Microsoft Exchange to Google Apps. The move by Google is only the most recent against incumbent Microsoft which has dominated the corporate space with its…