Recent Articles
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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…
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Microsoft Calls for Laws to Ensure Privacy, Security in the Cloud
If you’ve talked to your business customers about whether they have plans to move any of their IT infrastructure into the cloud, you’ve heard the same set of concerns—security and privacy. Today Microsoft called on government leaders to take action to alleviate those concerns by passing legislation to modernize criminal law to address crimes committed…
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IBM Says Small Deals Lead Technology Consulting Rebound
IT consultants are probably already feeling it: the start of a rebound in business. But there’s a difference this time. The rebound is coming mostly in smaller deals rather than in gigantic ones. That may be because businesses are dipping their feet in with jobs that just can’t wait before they dive into a recovery…
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Kaseya, Lenovo Team for PC Managed Services
Lenovo is teaming up with automation specialist Kaseya to educate and enable its community of managed service providers in remote desktop management. Through the alliance announced today, Kaseya and Lenovo will embark on an education effort to expose more MSPs and VARs to emerging opportunities in desktop managed services, with particular emphasis on leveraging Intel…