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IBM Takes Wraps Off Power7 Systems
IBM is rolling out the first of its Power7 systems as it looks to grab more market share in the $14 billion Unix server space from HP and Sun. The move comes as HP and Intel prepare to release the next-generation Itanium processor and Oracle looks to bring Sun into the fold. IBM is rolling…
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Intel: Spring Peak Laptop Family Offers Hardware Margins over 10%
Intel’s making hardware sales more lucrative for resellers and system builders again, working together with a handful of ODMs on a family of notebook products called “Spring Peak” that can be white-labeled and resold to business end customers at a margins estimated to be above 10 percent. ODMs such as ASI, Equus and Seneca Data…
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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…
