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Acer, Dell, HP Roll Out New PCs Based on Intel Core vPro Family
If your customers have been waiting for PCs based on the 2010 Intel Core vPro processor family to release their pent-up demand and upgrade to Microsoft Windows 7, their wait is over. Bring on the refresh cycle. Intel has unveiled the processor family, and PC makers Acer, Asus, Dell, HP, Lenovo and Toshiba are introducing…
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HP POD: Have Data Center, Will Travel
Eighteen months ago HP launched a self-contained portable data center to address customers with limited space and/or budgets looking to expand their IT capabilities. Just add the IT products and services and you had a ready-to-run IT facility in a forty-foot container. This week the company expanded its POD (Performance-Optimized Datacenter) line with a 20-foot…
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HP, McKesson Deal on Electronic Health Records Relies on Channel
Looking to get in on the coming rush to digitize medical records, electronic health record (EHR) provider McKesson and technology giant HP announced they are partnering to offer preconfigured bundles of software and hardware. And reseller channel partners will reap the benefits as well. The deal relies on the VARs of both companies to provide…
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Brisk Windows 7 Sales Boost Microsoft Profits
(Reuters) – Microsoft Corp posted a bigger-than-expected 60 percent jump in quarterly profit, helped by strong sales of Windows 7, and said it expected business technology spending to recover this year. The world’s biggest software maker said on Thursday that net profit came to $6.7 billion, or 74 cents per share, for its fiscal second…
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HP Targets SMBs with Zero-Percent Financing
Last month Cisco rolled out a three-year, zero-percent financing offer for its partners to dangle in front of SMB customers and spur buyer demand. Now it’s HP’s turn. This week, HP unveiled a host of financing and lease incentives also aimed at SMB customers and which partners can use to incent purchases. “As demands shift…
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HP Takes Energy, Thermal Efficiency Audit to Channel
Two years after it bolstered its data center services offerings with the acquisition of data center consulting firm EYP, Hewlett-Packard has rolled out to its channel partners the energy efficiency analysis and thermal assessment service it gained from the deal. The move comes at just the right time, as customers are looking at energy and…
