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Clouds Reign On IBM Channel Parade
Looking to match the hottest item on channel partners’ agendas this year — cloud computing IBM will provide a day of cloud content to 1,000 Tivoli partners Feb. 21 at the kickoff to its Pulse 2010 conference in Las Vegas. It will be the first in a year-long series of cloud computing camps that show…
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Microsoft Forefront UAG 2010 Alleviates Direct Access Headache
Microsoft’s Forefront Unified Access Gateway 2010 addresses many of the shortcomings of the company’s new always-on remote connectivity solution, DirectAccess, providing sorely needed measures of performance and availability scaling, global management, and backward compatibility to help move DirectAccess beyond mere pilot projects to actual deployment on real networks. While Forefront UAG 2010 has its own…
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Virsto Tackles Storage Virtualization
VMware remains by far the market leader in server virtualization, and many VARs have told Channel Insider that they wouldn’t put production servers on anything else, even if their customers may be testing Microsoft’s Hyper-V somewhere in the enterprise. But storage virtualization startup Virsto is placing its initial bet on Microsoft’s Hyper-V. The Sunnyvale, Calif.-based…
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Dell’s Quarter Revenue Expected Close to Estimates
Personal computer and server maker Dell’s (NASDAQ:DELL) revenue and earnings for the fourth quarter are expected to be about $13.82 billion according to consensus analyst estimates and about earnings to be about 27 cents per share when the company announces its quarterly financials on Feb. 18. Analyst firm Bernstein Research said it expects revenues and…
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HP Rebrands, Refreshes LeftHand Storage Lines
HP rebranded its storage offerings and added new products to the mix today, but there’s a lot more behind the move than simply cleaning up the storage line card. In addition to the new nomenclature, the extensions to its Modular Smart Array (MSA) and LeftHand lines mean more opportunity to the channel. "From a channel…