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Cisco, Microsoft Partner on Unified Computing
Cisco Systems is taking its Unified Computing System mainstream with reference architectures that support Microsoft SQL server. The partnership puts Cisco in the same realm as a Microsoft partner as competitors HP, IBM and Dell. New data center solutions from Cisco include Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 Fast Track Data Warehouse 3.0 for Cisco UCS,…
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Microsoft Focuses on the Cloud at TechEd 2011
Atlanta—At the Microsoft TechEd North America 2011 conference here, Microsoft officials spoke on how to build, deploy, manage and scale applications for the cloud and for devices. In a keynote, Robert Wahbe, corporate vice president of the Server and Tools Marketing Group at Microsoft, said as the trend toward virtualization increases, the move to the…
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HP Launches New Pavilion Desktop PCs
It’s an increasingly mobile world. The rise of smartphones and tablets has ushered in an era of “the PC in your pocket,” and each succeeding device seems to cram more and more memory and processing power into a smaller and smaller form-factor. Within this context, what use is the traditional desktop? Placed side-by-side with the…
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HP Drops Quarter Forecast, Hints at Layoffs
HP (NYSE:HPQ) CEO Leo Apotheker hinted at layoffs in a memo to top executives and then pulled the company’s earnings announcement forward by a day after that memo was leaked and a story published by Bloomberg. The HP layoff news comes a week after Cisco (NASDAQ:CSCO) CEO John Chambers promised $1 billion in cost cutting…
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Lenovo’s IT Mettle vs. Google Chromebook
Image via Wikipedia Google’s Chromebook notebook play, announced during the company’s Google I/O conference, may be aimed at businesses, governments, and educational institutions, as well as consumers, but will any of these end-users or end-user organizations be interested in buying what Google wants to sell, or lease, as the case may be? Google’s hardware-as-a-service (HaaS)…
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IBM’s New Program Tries to Lure Customers Away from the Competition
IBM has launched yet another effort to get its competitors’ customers to move over to IBM’s software and systems. In particular, IBM is targeting Oracle with new migration resources to help Oracle software customers switch to IBM software. The new resources include no-charge financial and technology assessments, skills training courses, and proof of concepts to…
