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Oracle Scores EU Approval to Buy Sun
(Reuters) – Oracle Corp won unconditional European Union approval on Thursday for its $7 billion takeover of Sun Microsystems, a month after offering public pledges to sooth regulatory concerns.The acquisition will reshape the high-tech landscape, with world No. 2 business software maker Oracle moving into the hardware business. Sun is the top player in the…
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HP ‘Aggressively` Going After Dell`s SMB Customers
SMBs—small and midsize businesses with fewer than 500 employees—will spend about $55 billion on technology products and services each year, and the lion’s share of that belongs to Dell. And that doesn’t sit well with rival Hewlett-Packard. HP officially unveiled SMB Exchange, a concentrated sales team that will target non-HP customers with special offers for…
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NEC Offers VARs Piece of Digital Signage Ad Sales
In its quest to squeeze more dollars from its digital signage hardware business, NEC late last year tapped into the lucrative market for digital signage advertising when it created a new network platform called Vukunet to bring advertisers and signage operators together. Today, NEC is bringing its partners into the fold. Specifically, the company is…
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EMC Doubles Clariion Capacity, Slashes Space, Energy Usage
While targeted at several data-intensive applications, EMC’s latest midrange storage offering, high-density Clariion CX4 configurations, represents the evolution of the storage industry at large, packaging more capacity and capabilities in smaller physical spaces and consuming less energy. "Over the last two years, a lot of customers have been looking at efficiency and cost savings as…
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Avnet Helps Resellers with Sales Opportunity in Network, Security
Looking to help resellers take their customers’ data centers to the next level, distributor Avnet’s (NYSE:AVT) Technology Solutions organization has introduced a networking practice comprising the top technologies for modern data centers—virtualization, security, storage and networking. Avnet’s NetworkPath is designed to help resellers gain specialized expertise for the data center through services, tools and training…
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IBM Unveils Android, iPhone and Blackberry Support at Lotusphere 2010
If anyone was wondering if IBM was in the mobile game to stay, Big Blue’s slew of announcements at Lotusphere 2010 this week showed a continued commitment to expanding the mobile footprint of Lotus applications into the enterprise. The company unveiled new applications and support for BlackBerry, iPhone and Android. IBM’s annual collaboration conference has…