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Google: Publishers Friend of Foe?
Google chief executive Eric Schmidt walked into the lion’s den yesterday, speaking at the annual Newspaper Association of America’s meeting in San Diego to assure publishers of struggling newspapers across the country that the search giant is their friend. But these are not good times for newspapers and other periodical publishers, such as the New…
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AMD Server Processor Discount Pits Opteron Against Intel Xeon
Processor maker AMD is offering a discount of up to 30 percent to solution builder channel partners and customers upgrading AMD Opteron server processors. By upgrading just the server processor instead of the entire server, reseller partners can help their end-customers gain significant performance improvement while at the same time saving money during a budget-strapped…
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Apple Nehalem-Based Servers Now at Resellers
Claiming an 89 percent improvement in performance per watt, Apple today announced immediate availability of its updated Xserve server that uses Intel’s Nehalem Xeon 5500 processor. It’s a message that Apple hopes will resonate with customers in education, business and creative services, where Apple is targeting the workgroup server. Resellers contacted by Channel Insider say…
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9 Ways to Look Good to Your Company
At a time when many organizations have frozen or reduced salaries and bonuses; suspended discretionary spending; laid off staff; and reduced employer contributions to company sponsored share purchase and/or retirement plans, employee morale and engagement have likely been negatively impacted. While we can argue that "it’s the economy, stupid", and await better times, employers are…
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End Users Willing to Switch Suppliers for Recovery Management
Computer Associates has announced the results of a global study indicating that while most enterprise and SMB IT organizations are satisfied with their current backup product, 70 percent of them would consider switching to backup that is integrated with other key recovery management functions, including replication and CDP. The study showed that key business objectives,…