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Cisco Increases Tandberg Video Conferencing Acquisition Offer
Cisco Systems has sweetened its offer to Tandberg shareholders in its continuing effort to acquire the video conferencing company. The new offer by Cisco is to purchase all outstanding shares of Tandberg for 170 Norwegian kroner per share for an aggregate purchase price of approximately $3.4 billion, Cisco said in a statement. Cisco’s original offer…
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3X Marries Local, Cloud SMB Backup
Managed services in general, and in the cloud, specifically, are attracting the interest of small-medium businesses, according to a new study from AMI, and a number of vendors are looking to tap into this growing market. Although the study doesn’t break down the current size of the opportunity, it does say that SMB annual spending…
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ParaScale Upgrades Cloud Storage Software for VARs
Cloud buzz abounds—storage software vendor ParaScale today released version 2.0 of its private cloud storage solution designed for VARs and service provider distribution. The solution aims to take advantage o f the growing need for easy-to-manage storage solutions while data amounts continue to expand. The ParaScale Cloud Storage software product provides distributed performance of cloud…
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Apple iPhone Infiltrates BlackBerry’s Enterprise Stronghold
Solution providers looking to support mobility and mobile phones such as BlackBerry and Treo as a part of their practice have been noticing something different lately. The realm once ruled by BlackBerry has been infiltrated by a young upstart—the Apple iPhone. During Apple’s most recent earnings call, company executives told analysts that iPhones were being…
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Virtualization Will Be a Driver for 2010 Server Refresh
Server vendors are at the ready as 2010 approaches, awaiting what could be a significant refresh of server hardware. Hewlett-Packard, Dell, IBM and even Cisco Systems have introduced new server hardware as the new year approaches. That’s because some IT organizations have used virtualization as a tactic to postpone server hardware upgrades during the recession.…
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Intel to Ante Up $1.25 Billion to Settle Suits with AMD
(Reuters) – Intel Corp will pay rival chipmaker Advanced Micro Devices Inc $1.25 billion to settle all outstanding legal disputes, in a move that can hasten the resolution of Intel’s antitrust troubles. AMD, whose shares jumped 22 percent, agreed to withdraw essentially all its regulatory complaints and litigation against Intel, ending a global campaign that…