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HP Confirms WebOS for Tablet Devices
After months of rumors, HP officially announced it would be using the mobile operating system it acquired along with smartphone specialist Palm, webOS. The acquisition, completed this week for approximately $1.2 billion, puts HP in place to challenge operating systems such as Google Android or Microsoft’s Windows 7 mobile operating system. The decision could be…
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Cisco Transforms Channel Executive Team
Cisco is shaking up its channel executives promoting Wendy Bahr to senior vice president of Global and Transformational Partnerships, and Cisco is actively seeking a replacement for her in the role of senior vice president of the US and Canada Theater for the channel. Edison Peres is serving as senior vice president of Worldwide Channels,…
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Lenovo Services Sales to be All Channel-Led
Lenovo has introduced a new partner services program called Blueprint that the PC maker says distinguishes it as a channel friendly vendor, even as other hardware vendors such as Dell and HP, which have acquired their own services businesses such as Perot Systems and EDS, have created concern about channel conflict. “There’s a lot of…
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Cisco Prepares Potential Customers for the Cloud
Cisco is providing a menu of cloud system components, including products of its own and from partners such as EMC, NetApp, VMware, Microsoft and BMC. On June 30, that’s what the company did, launching a set of what it calls Cloud Enablement Services to go with its growing Data Center Solutions Portfolio. The idea is…
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HP Acquisition of Palm Complete, webOS Developments Ahead
HP, the world’s top-selling PC maker, with access to Palm’s webOS mobile platform and Pre and Pixi smartphones, will now be able to “participate more aggressively in the highly profitable, $100 billion smartphone and connected mobile devices markets,” HP said in a statement July 1. However, the real draw for HP was Palm’s webOS mobile…
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HP Data Vault Series Gets Level Platforms Managed Workplace
Managed services software specialist Level Platforms (LPI), which offers software for IT solution providers servicing small and midsized end customers, announced its remote monitoring and management software, Managed Workplace, would now be available on the HP StorageWorks X500 Data Vault Series. The company said the expansion would help allow managed service providers (MSPs) address the…