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VMware, Others Unveil New Virtualization Technology at VMWorld
While most technology vendors have been socked with double-digit declines in sales during the ongoing economic recession, virtualization technologies have been named by many VARs and vendors as something that’s been immune to budget cuts. That’s because virtualization is widely viewed as fulfilling this recession’s mantra: "Do more with less." And judging by the interest…
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IBM Sets Sights on Sun’s Partners
It’s been one of the longest standing IT cross-town rivalries for decades. Innovative, irreverent, scrappy Sun Microsystems maneuvering to compete with big, formal, complex IBM, most loudly beginning back in the early ’90s. A more stark contrast in cultures and marketing campaigns had never before been seen. In the wake of Oracle’s recent winning bid…
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Keep the Funny Stories Coming
Have you heard the one about the college student who couldn’t understand why her PC’s warranty was voided because it didn’t cover accidental or intentional emersions in swimming pools? How about the one about the executive who berated her service provider because they couldn’t provision her email to automatically deliver messages without her having to…
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Netbooks, Nettops Threaten 2010 PC Refresh Cycle
Plenty of industry-watchers say that netbooks are cannibalizing sales of traditional notebooks and sacrificing average selling prices of portable PCs. But could that just be the tip of the iceberg? While PC giants such as Dell and HP are forecasting a significant PC refresh cycle for early to mid-2010 as pent up demand and the…
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SenSage Hires New Business Dev Exec from McAfee
The event data warehousing gurus at San Francisco-based SenSage are hoping to up their channel play with the recruitment of a new vice president of marketing a business development plucked straight from McAfee. Just a few weeks ago Joe Gottlieb took the newly created position at SenSage after serving as vice president of corporate strategy…
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IBM Report Finds State of Web Insecurity Unprecedented
IBM has released results from its X-Force 2009 Mid-Year Trend and Risk Report. The report’s findings show an unprecedented state of Web insecurity as Web client, server, and content threats converge to create an untenable risk landscape. According to the report, there has been a 508 percent increase in the number of new malicious Web…