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EMC Presses Forward with Hostile Bid for Data Domain
The "love triangle" involving data storage competitors NetApp and EMC and the object of their affections, storage systems and deduplication provider Data Domain, took a second turn June 3 when the Data Domain board of directors unanimously accepted a revised $1.9 acquisition offer from NetApp that it had received earlier in the day. However, EMC,…
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Apple Plans First East Coast Data Center
(Reuters) – Apple plans to invest up to $1 billion over the next nine years to build a data center in North Carolina. The data center would represent Apple’s first on the East Coast of the U.S., said Apple spokeswoman Susan Lundgren. Lundgren said Apple is not commenting on how the data center will be…
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VARs to CEO John Chambers: We Want UCS and ‘Unified Cisco’
Cisco’s annual Partner Summit winds down in Boston today but there’s one more event attendees have to look forward to this afternoon: Cisco’s longtime CEO John Chambers’ keynote. Channel Insider asked select Cisco solution providers to share their thoughts on what they’d like to hear from the big man himself about how Cisco will move…
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FrontRange Updates Partner Program, Introduces Deal Registration
FrontRange Solutions, which makes IT service management and infrastructure management software, has simplified its partner program and introduced deal registration. "By enabling our partners with a transparent process for deal identification and management, we can focus as a company on ensuring the optimum solution is being provided to the customer," said Jim O’Gara, vice president…
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Color MFP Continues to Do Well Despite Down Economy
The brightest spot in the overall worldwide hardcopy peripherals (HCP) market during the first quarter of 2009 (1Q09) was color laser multifunction peripherals (MFPs). It registered a strong showing of 6% year-over-year growth in a challenging economic environment. According to IDC’s Worldwide Quarterly Hardcopy Peripherals Tracker, the overall MFP market has fared much better than…