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  • Desktop, Laptop PC Refresh on the Way, Eventually

    You may be reading all the stories about amazing new processors and high-performing, low-power PCs on the market today, but chances are you aren’t reading this story on one of them. Unless you are at home. Responding to a deep economic recession, companies across the board have delayed their PC refresh cycles, and today’s corporate…

  • Oracle Reportedly Shuts Down Virtual Iron

    Virtual Iron resellers have just days left to sell products under extremely restrictive terms before Oracle, the company’s new owner, shut down the virtualization software company. According to a report by The Register, Oracle is prohibiting partners from selling Virtual Iron products to new customers and is restricting sales outside of existing customers after June…

  • Technology Investments Yield Higher Profits

    MIT Sloan School of Management researchers on Friday released an IT management book based on a global study of 1,800 organizations that demonstrates what many solution providers and integrators have known for years: Smart IT investments equal strategic business assets to a company and increase margins, drive revenue growth and increase efficiencies. The business case…

  • Virtualization Is Just a Tool, Says Expert

    A new state program in Virginia provides $35,000 grants to businesses that allow employees to telecommute. With virtualization, small businesses can extend applications and data to remote workers, providing the same user experience and productivity capabilities as if they’re in the office. But virtualization is not the solution that enables small businesses to participate in…

  • Ballmer says Microsoft Putting Investment Behind Search

    (Reuters) – Microsoft Corp is willing to invest up to 10 percent of its operating income in its Internet search business for up to five years, Chief Executive Steve Ballmer said on Thursday, as its "Bing" search engine starts to gain ground with Web surfers. Bing — part of Microsoft’s perennially money-losing online services unit…

  • Distributor Westcon Brings Microsoft into the Fold

    Westcon Group, which focuses on the networking, convergence, security and mobility market, has added Microsoft to its roster for the first time. The agreement applies only to the United States at this time. Through the deal, the two companies will focus on service-oriented offerings, which include unified communications, virtualization, Microsoft BPOS hosted services and security…

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