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Dell’s Shopping Spree. Is Networking Next?
Could Dell be in the market to acquire a networking company in an effort to build its data center product line to compete with the likes of Cisco and HP? That may very well be the case. Dell’s global head of the Enterprise Architecture certification group recently told Channel Insider that Dell is planning to…
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HP Gets Closer to Polycom After Cisco Divorce
Just weeks after HP severed its reseller agreement with Cisco amidst growing competition between the two technology giants in the data center, HP has gotten closer to Cisco’s telepresence and unified communications rival Polycom. Click here to read how Cisco’s biggest partners stand to win more business following the Cisco-HP rift. Polycom and HP have…
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Microsoft Updates Windows XP Mode, Partners with Citrix
Microsoft has opened up upgrades to its Windows 7 operating system to a whole host of new users by removing the hardware requirement for the use of Windows XP Mode, the technology that enables users to run older applications on the 64-bit operating system. "It’s a very good development to not require hardware virtualization support…
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China: Some HP Laptops Faulty
(Reuters) – China’s quality control watchdog said an investigation into Hewlett-Packard Co showed the company had sold some faulty laptop computers, and ignored consumer protection regulations. The General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine said in a statement on its website (www.aqsiq.gov.cn) that after consumer complaints, it had found several models were affected by…
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More Users Plan Microsoft Windows 7 Upgrade Before SP1 Release
New research from recent Dell acquisition Kace finds 87 percent of IT professionals surveyed plan to deploy Windows 7, up dramatically from a similar study done in April 2009. Of more significance to the channel, almost half of the 900 respondents plan to move to Windows 7 before the anticipated summer release of Service Pack…
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Google Apps Adds Server-Side Microsoft Exchange Migration Tool
Google ramped up the noise for its Google Apps this week by offering a new server-side tool to help organizations and partners migrate company email, calendar and contact data from Microsoft Exchange to Google Apps. The move by Google is only the most recent against incumbent Microsoft which has dominated the corporate space with its…