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Steve Jobs Strides Back onto Apple Stage
(Reuters) – Steve Jobs stepped back into the spotlight for the first time in nearly a year on Wednesday, drawing a standing ovation before unveiling new and cheaper iPods for Apple Inc. But Apple’s shares closed 1 percent lower after hitting a year’s high in the session. Analysts said they dipped because investors took profits…
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Symantec Calls a Quorum with Reputation-Based Tech
Symantec says it wants to take advantage of the wisdom of crowds with a new reputation-based malware technology that it made available to the channel this week. The company took the wraps off of the technology, dubbed Quorum, as it released its latest 2010 Norton line-up. Integrated into Norton Internet Security 2010 and Norton AntiVirus…
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Dell Intros PowerEdge Servers at Small Business Prices
With price points aimed at attracting small and midsized businesses that buy through reseller channel partners, Dell has introduced a series of PowerEdge servers and PowerVault storage systems featuring a new series of Intel’s "Nehalem" processor also aimed at systems for SMBs. The question is whether Dell’s new PowerEdge servers, which start at $599 and…
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Channel Insider, HTG Peer Groups Launch Cloud Computing Research Program
Channel Insider, the leading source of channel intelligence and analysis, and HTG Peer Groups, the groundbreaking collaborative network of IT resellers and service providers, announced a collaborative partnership dubbed “Project Nimbus” to produce community-based guidance on cloud computing in the IT channel. Cloud computing, managed services, and hosted infrastructure and applications are rapidly transforming the…
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Virtualization Gives SMBs Control
I love speaking to user groups and admittedly I really enjoy working with other solution providers and talking about what we all do. So when I get the opportunity, I try to make these conversations constructive. One of the big questions I hear all the time from customers is, “Is virtualization right for us? We’re…
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Storage Market Continues Decline, iSCSI a Bright Spot
Even as the worldwide external disk storage market remains in decline, certain categories continue to show double-digit growth – categories likely to be sold by solution providers. iSCSI SAN (storage area networks) grew by 57.2 percent year over year in Q2 and fiber channel SAN grew by 66.8 percent for the same period, both in…