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Putting the HP in HPC
While other segments of the IT industry have been suffering along with the economy, high-performance computing (HPC) has been relatively recession-proof says HP, which is making significant additions to its Extreme Scale-Out (ExSO) portfolio. These new offerings, including the HP ProLiant G6 blade, ‘skinless’ server technology, storage, software and interconnect/networking products, are intended to reduce…
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EMC Adds Desktop, Laptop and Virtualization Support to Avamar Deduplication Technology
While EMC’s biggest news in the deduplication arena may have been around its acquisition of Data Domain earlier this year, that doesn’t mean that the storage and security giant has stopped progress on its other deduplication technology. EMC is expanding its Avamar software—designed as backup software for servers in the enterprise, to officially support desktops…
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80% of Security Products Fail to Meet Expectations
Bulletproof security is a practical impossibility. Anyone who claims to have perfected the art of security is either a fool or a liar, since no security product or schema is foolproof or invincible. What security promises is risk mitigation; assuming that security technology works as advertised. And that’s the unspoken problem that undermines security effectiveness,…
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IBM’s New Service Embraces Cloud Computing
(Reuters) – IBM launched a new cloud computing service on Monday, aiming to take on companies such as Amazon.com Inc, Google Inc, Microsoft Corp and Salesforce.com Inc. Cloud computing allows companies to run software and store information in remote, large-scale data centers that can be accessed over the Internet. That means users can cut back…
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Symantec Urges Partners to Narrow Focus
While having leadership positions in multiple technology segments would seem like a good thing, it creates a problem for Symantec in that it’s increasingly difficult to succinctly classify Symantec as a whole. Is it a security company? Is it a storage company? Is an information lifecycle company? Is it a business process management company? The…
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SonicWall Partner Shows Value of Trusted Adviser Relationship
Channel Insider literally receives dozens of press releases each week, most of them not worth reporting on. Mundane press releases are about customer wins, executive speaking engagements, commentary on news trends and routine business. Press releases are really perfunctory so vendors can say they’re doing everything they can to stay in the press. Last week,…