Recent Articles
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Ultralights, MacBook Air and Netbooks, Oh My
If you want to create some controversy, just say something along the lines of “The MacBook Air sucks for business.” While that may be a blanket statement that unfairly casts the MacBook Air in a negative light, there’s some truth to the statement when one takes a look at competing products and how they are…
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Texas Memory Intros RamSan-20 PCI-Based Storage
Texas Memory Systems’ new RamSan-20 delivers a complete storage system on a PCI-e card, allowing solution providers to offer customers increased capacity and performance that installs in minutes. SSDs (solid-state disks) are becoming increasingly popular in data center deployments, and improvements in flash technology and pricing are creating demand for different form factors and connectivity…
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Pillar Debuts SSD-Based Axiom Storage Solution
Pillar Data Systems will add solid-state drive technology to its Axiom storage solutions, allowing solution providers to deliver faster, more cost-effective, highly available solutions for midmarket and enterprise customers. The introduction of SSD drives into Pillar’s Axiom chassis allows solution providers to add a fifth tier of storage capability to the solution, says Bob Maness,…
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Big Companies to Spend on IT Hardware
About four out of five midsize and large companies plan to buy IT hardware in the next six months—a statistic that is in stark contrast to recent analyst reports of hardware sales declines in 2009. The note of optimism comes out of the CDW IT Monitor, CDW’s bimonthly survey of 1,000 IT professionals about their spending plans…
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Juniper Unveils Adaptive Threat Management Appliance
Juniper Networks is continuing its push to create greater interoperability with its products with the release of a new threat management platform in its SRX 3000 Services Gateway appliance. Over the last several months, Juniper has rolled out several initiatives and products designed around the themes of ease of management, ease of use, and open…
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Sell Software, Not Shelfware
If you check out the CIO Insight top IT spending priorities for 2009, you’ll see that one-half of the 15 technology sets are software. C-suite executives are allocating their precious budget dollars to operating system upgrades, compliance applications, software-oriented architectures, knowledge management systems, business intelligence suites, information lifecycle management, business continuity and virtualization. Looking down…