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Storage Specialist Xiotech Snags $10 Million in Financing
Just five months after it laid off about 14 percent of its workforce, Eden Prairie, Minn.-based Xiotech hopes to accelerate its storage networking business out of the recession with a new round of $10 million in financing that it says will help it build out new product offerings for release in early 2010. A specialist…
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Xerox Fires Back on Managed Print Services
Xerox says just because HP has created a big hoopla around managed print services with its host of product, alliance and MPS announcements this week doesn’t mean they are the best choice for all customers or maybe even any customers. It’s not surprising to hear Xerox take such a stance. After all, Xerox is a…
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Avoiding Jihad in Favor of Business Acumen
If there is nothing we like more in IT, it is religious wars. Our passion for technology often comes out in odd ways, resulting in aggressive stances on technology choices. Let me list some of the jihads we seem to find ways to debate. PC vs. Mac. Open source vs. proprietary. Android vs. iPhone. Cloud…
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HP Snags Web Pioneer Andreessen for Board
(Reuters) – Hewlett-Packard Co named Internet pioneer Marc Andreessen, 38, to its board of directors, tapping one of the industry’s best known investors to help guide the world’s biggest PC maker. Chief Executive Mark Hurd is likely to look to Andreessen, one of the developers of the first widely used Web browser, to help expand…
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Microsoft Puts Web-Based Office Apps into Beta
In a telling move that indicates the momentum of cloud computing, Microsoft this week placed into technical preview its forthcoming Web versions of its juggernaut Office suite. Originally announced at Microsoft’s Worldwide Partner Conference in July, the now officially dubbed Office Web Apps are lightweight versions of their on-premises counterparts. The technical preview program will…