Recent Articles
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Cisco’s Chambers: Partners Crucial to Success of Tandberg Deal
On the heels of announcing plans to acquire video conferencing stalwart Tandberg for $3 billion, Cisco‘s CEO John Chambers along with Tandberg CEO Fredrik Halvorsen put out a video blog meant to assure partners of their critical role in selling the combined technologies and solutions. Check it out.
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LifeSize Passport Brings Video Conferencing to Masses
One day after Cisco announced its HD video conferencing juggernaut through its acquisition of vendor Tandberg, upstart rival LifeSize punched back, announcing its LifeSize Passport HD video communications solution at a sub-$2,500 price. The system, which consists of an HD video camera, a remote controller and a codec small enough to fit in the palm…
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Virtualization’s Impact on Managed Services
I’ve been giving a lot of thought to what virtualization means to managed services. Evolve, my company, recently moved our virtualized server infrastructure to a hosted cloud, which I detailed this in my own blog. We did the math and found we could save money on our hardware investment by not buying more and instead…
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HP Pulls ProCurve in As Part of Family
At least since Cisco’s ‘Californication’, when the network giant announced it was entering the data center server market, HP has been busy shoring up its networking portfolio, culminating in this week’s announcement that its data center and network businesses will be closely tied together at some point in the near future. In addition to making…
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IBM Targets Google With Online Email
(Reuters) – IBM is introducing an inexpensive Web-based corporate email service that will compete with Google Inc’s Google Apps, which has recently suffered several high-profile outages. International Business Machines Corp will likely try to capitalize on the damage that those outages have caused to Google Apps over the past year. Last month millions of business…
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Does Windows Mobile 7 Delay Portend Zune Phone?
The repeated delay of Windows Mobile 7 is throwing the rumor mill into overdrive following the recent online leak of photos thought to represent phone prototypes from a development project at Microsoft called Project Pink. The photos and speculation around them place Microsoft’s acquisition of Danger in the spotlight and are leading many to conclude…