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Growing Business Intelligence Demand Means VAR Opportunity
I’ve been on a gadget spree in the last few weeks, wrapping up two “home” projects as I write this. First, I’m redoing my home network, retiring the servers I had in my home and replacing them with a new Windows Home Server and a SheevaPlug, which will handle all the tasks that a virtualization…
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Do Microsoft’s Server Moves Indicate a Shift to the Cloud?
Microsoft’s recent decision to end support for Intel’s Itanium chip in its server architecture, along with the elimination of its Essential Business Server (EBS) development, suggests that the company is trying to reposition to take advantage of several developing business IT trends, including virtualization and cloud computing. That paradigm shift is also mirrored on the…
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NEC Offers Intel Xeon 7500-Based Enterprise Server
NEC Corp. of America, a provider and integrator of communications, networking and IT solutions, announced the fifth-generation server in its premier line of enterprise Intel-based servers, the Express5800/A1080a. The server offers flexibility, capacity and configurability, exploiting the functionality of the Intel Xeon Processor 7500 series. >>Click here to read the rest of the story at…
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Non-Profits Get Custom Version of Microsoft Dynamics CRM
Microsoft has released a version of its Microsoft Dynamics CRM customized for nonprofits and non-governmental organizations (NGOs). Although the software platform has traditionally focused on business management, additional tools in this edition include donation and pledge management, basic membership management, basic volunteer tracking, support for online payment solutions, and campaign management. >>Click here to read…
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HP Slate Positioned Against iPad with Video Conferencing
Hewlett-Packard is ramping up its own tablet PC efforts in the wake of Apple’s iPad launch, releasing a new official blog posting and video that shows an upcoming slate product capable of video conferencing, “Think about the last time you chatted with friends over Skype on your notebook,” Phil McKinney, vice president and chief technology…
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Microsoft Calls it Quits on Intel Itanium Support
Days after Intel and Advanced Micro Devices launched new high-end x86 chips that drive the architecture higher up the server chain, Microsoft officials announced they are ending support for Intel’s Itanium chip in their server software. In an April 2 post on the Windows Server blog, Dan Reger, a Microsoft senior technical product manager, said…