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Juniper Networks
Juniper Networks Market cap: $15.9 billionAnnual revenue of $3.3 billionIf You Are Betting at Home: Juniper’s product portfolio includes routers, switches and security products, among others, but this company is financially out of Dell’s league. Brocade Communication Systems Market cap: $2.58 billionRevenue: $1.9 billionNet loss: $76.58 million (compared with a net income of $167.1 million…
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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…
