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Symantec Buys into e-Discovery with Clearwell
Data storage and protection provider Symantec, which has just about everything in its feature arsenal but a complete e-discovery option, took care of that detail May 19 by acquiring Mountain View, Calif., neighbor Clearwell Systems for $390 million. Clearwell’s eDiscovery software package, which Time Warner Communications recently bought for its own corporate system, is well…
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Dell Quarter Profit Grows on High-Margin Products
Dell (NASDAQ:DELL) reported a one percent increase in first fiscal quarter revenue year over year and a 177 percent increase in net income as a focus on higher margin products and services boosted the company’s bottom line. Dell’s results stood in stark contrast to HP’s (NYSE:HPQ) results announced earlier this week. HP saw a decline…
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HP, Dell Launch Servers for High-Performance Computing
Hewlett-Packard and Dell are continuing to build servers that bring graphics chips into the data center. HP officials on May 17 announced that Nvidia’s new Tesla M2090 GPU (graphics processing unit) will appear in a number of upcoming HP ProLiant servers aimed at the HPC (high-performance computing) space, a move they say will address organizations’…
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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…