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IBM: We Don’t Want To Be Google
LAS VEGAS – IBM has the capability to compete with Google or Microsoft’s Bing in the search arena, but the company has no interest in moving in that direction despite the strong showing IBM made in answering a variety of complex questions with its Watson supercomputer in a Jeopardy! quiz show competition. At IBM’s Pulse…
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Cisco at a Crossroads: Back to Basics or Continued Expansion?
(Reuters) – For years, the question at Cisco Systems Inc (NASDAQ:CSCO) was what to buy next, expanding from routers and switches into consumer electronics in an effort to keep its revenue rising by double digits. Now, the question may be what to cut or sell off. Since Cisco reported a weak outlook and lower-than-expected margins…
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Winter Edition of Hot Channel Stories from All Over
This week’s company to watch MSP Mentor did a great job of laying out why MSPs and VARs should watch Parallels. The cloud and virtualization company, known for its Mac desktop virtualization software, named a new CEO and held its Parallels Summit in Orlando, Fla. this week. As MSP Mentor reports, plenty of channel and…
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Cisco’s Hosted E-Mail Service Says Goodbye
Cisco Systems pulled the plug on Cisco Mail, the hosted e-mail service it launched a mere 13 months ago. While Cisco Mail was “well received,” Cisco found that customers were not interested in hosted e-mail as much as they cared about “social software and video,” Cisco said in a Feb. 22 blog post announcing the…
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Juniper Launches QFabric Networking Platform
Juniper Networks is rolling out a new networking platform executives say will simplify the data center infrastructure, driving up throughput, scalability and efficiency while reducing latency, operating costs and the number of devices required for a networking architecture. During a Webcast event from San Francisco Feb. 23, Juniper executives unveiled their QFabric architecture, a $100…