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Gasp! Microsoft Takes Linux Hyper-V Drivers Open Source
Microsoft temporarily suspended its fear and loathing of all things Linux this week. The Windows juggernaut released Linux Hyper-V drivers under the GPL version 2 and submitted them for inclusion in the main Linux kernel source tree. What next? Sharepoint running natively on Linux? Let’s not go that far. But while submitting device driver code…
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Microsoft Deal Talk, Optimism Overshadow Down Results
(Reuters) – Microsoft Corp will likely report the first annual sales dip in its history as a public company, but investors are looking beyond that for upbeat comments on Windows 7, signs of a tech sector recovery, and even a deal with Yahoo Inc. to challenge Google Inc. The question for investors when the world’s…
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Finding the Growth Markets
Looking for a growth market? More IT vendors these days are targeting the small business and midsize business space because those markets are forecast to have a higher growth rate than enterprises. It’s not just the existing small businesses, but it’s also the small businesses that may be just starting up as their founders become…
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Lenovo Broadens ThinkServer Line with New Tower and Rack Servers
Lenovo is continuing to build out its server portfolio with the launch of ThinkServer TD200 and TD200x tower servers, and the RD210 and RD220 rack servers. Aimed at the small- and medium-sized business (SMB) market with up to 5,000 employees, the new ThinkServer products follow on the announcement that Lenovo was entering the server market…
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How One VAR Saved the Army $1 Billion a Year
The U.S. Army is a fighting force of more than 1.1 million soldiers and several hundred thousand civilian support personnel and contractors. Each person serving the Army is evaluated annually for fitness and performance, a process that was consuming tens of thousands of work hours and millions of pounds of paper at a cost of…
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There’s No Such Thing as Ubiquitous Security
A headline in USA Today last week read: “Jakarta blasts puts spotlight on hotel security.” In the same week, a headline on CNN read: “Twitter hack raises questions about ‘cloud computing.” Why are these two headlines linked? It’s because they’re making sweeping assumptions about the consistency of security threats based on two isolated incidents. Let’s…