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Juniper Unveils Next-Generation Data Center Program
Juniper Networks is developing a program to create a next-generation data center fabric with the goal of increasing scalability, performance and simplicity. For solution providers, the program could provide the ability to support fully converged and virtualized data center environments. Code-named Stratus Project, the program will be developed by a new Data Center Business Group…
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Enterprise Mobile Helping Large Enterprises Hit the Road
A Microsoft-backed integrator Enterprise Mobile is capitalizing on the fact that enabling business applications on mobile devices isn’t always easy, especially for large companies. “We create services that enterprises need to help manage their mobile environment,” said Mort Rosenthal, chairman and CEO of the Watertown, Mass., systems integrator. Enterprise Mobile helps mobile device users from…
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Tech Job Loss Stanched in February
February technology layoffs dropped more than 70 percent from January’s record pace, with more than 33,000 technology jobs displaced. Panasonic announced a cut of 15,000 employees, representing 5 percent of its total work force. “Business conditions have worsened particularly since last October,” Panasonic said in a statement, “due mainly to the rapid appreciation of the…
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Coyote Point Unveils New Channel Midmarket Program
Load balancing and application acceleration experts Coyote Point Systems, Inc., based in San Jose, Calif., announced a multi-tiered channel program to support increasing demand for its new Equalizer GX family of application acceleration and load balancing solutions, aimed at small to medium-size businesses (SMBs). The company says the their Tiered Partner Program is designed to…
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Gartner: PC Unit Sales to See Worst Decline in History
The outlook for computer hardware sales—desktop PCs, servers and even notebooks—has grown bleaker for 2009 as demand appears to have dropped out of the market. Gartner is now forecasting a drop of 11.9 percent in 2009 from 2008, the sharpest unit decline in history. Before now, the sharpest decline had been in 2001 when unit…
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Free Citrix XenServer for Everybody
Citrix will make its XenServer virtualization platform free to all users for unlimited production deployment, hoping to kick off a new wave of server virtualization for SMBs and midmarket customers. While basic hypervisors have been available at no charge for years, most aren’t much use in an actual production environment, says John Humphreys, senior director…