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  • HP’s Options after Oracle’s Itanium Gambit

    Hewlett-Packard and its HP-UX customers stand to take the biggest hit if Oracle sticks with its decision to end support for Intel’s Itanium platform, though the server maker does have options for easing the situation, according to an analyst. In particular, HP relatively easily could port HP-UX to its x86 server platform and already has…

  • Microsoft’s InTune: Price Too High for SMB?

    Microsoft’s cloud-based Windows InTune gives IT administrators for midsize businesses an enterprise-style level of control over a network, via a combination of cloud services, on-site PC-management tools and added malware protection. Whether it involves checking that software licenses are up-to-date, or diagnosing unbootable PCs, the platform is supposed to be streamlined for those IT pros’…

  • Dell’s Energy Efficient PowerEdge C5000 Servers

    Designed to help IT hosting and Web 2.0 companies achieve greater efficiencies in their data centers, technology giant Dell introduced its third generation of microservers, the PowerEdge C5000 line, including the PowerEdge C5125 and C5220, designed to meet the requirements of dedicated and virtualized IT hosting, Web 2.0 and cloud builder environments. The series of…

  • HP, Oracle, Intel Tussle Over Itanium

    Oracle ramped up the war of words between itself and HP yesterday, declaring that it would discontinue support of Intel’s Itanium chip – the high-end processor that competes against the likes of Oracle/Sun SPARC – because Intel top management said the chip was about to go end-of-life. HP and Intel fired back, saying Itanium will…

  • Comstor to Offer Cisco TelePresence Solutions

    Distributor Westcon Group’s dedicated Cisco division Comstor will now be offering Cisco’s full TelePresence portfolio to solution providers looking to incorporate more video and communications solutions into their product offerings. Included are products Cisco recently acquired with the acquisition of Tandberg, and the new offerings will help solution providers develop new revenue streams, Bill Corbin,…

  • Cisco Pushes Video, Web Conferencing for Partners

    Cisco is working to make video and unified communications a more attractive proposition for small businesses, predicting that in just a few years 90 percent of network load will come from video applications. That means a big opportunity for partners, who now have the option to resell technology such as WebEx, rather than just refer…

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