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Cisco Cozies Up to BT on Unified Communications Soon After Polycom-BT Deal
BT and Cisco Systems announced Dec. 9 that they will collaborate to put unified communications in the cloud, letting customers buy UC services on a per-user utility basis, a service available in the United Kingdom now and in the United States and Europe, Middle East and Africa in 2010. The companies say the "scalable, business-grade,…
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IBM Targets SMBs with Cloud-Based IT Monitoring
IBM is reaching out to small-medium businesses with online software intended to help monitor, predict and prevent IT outages. Tivoli Live Monitoring Services is being offered on a monthly subscription basis and Big Blue’s channel partners can sell it either as an agent or as a host, says IBM’s Dave Mitchell, Director of Strategy and…
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Cisco, Savvis Team Up to Build Private Clouds
It looks like Cisco’s Unified Computing System (UCS) is taking a step forward from theory to reality with the newly announced partnership with infrastructure-as-a-service provider Savvis, which will leverage Cisco’s virtualized data center technology to build and deliver private clouds to the enterprise. This is reportedly the first such private cloud partnership in Cisco’s virtualized…
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Microsoft Picks Washington, D.C., for 2010 WPC
The 2010 Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference is heading to the nation’s capital. The Washington Convention and Sports Authority announced this morning that it secured the annual gathering of more than 10,000 Microsoft reseller and independent software vendors. In a statement, Elliott Ferguson, president and CEO of Destination DC, said: "This is a huge win for…
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Ingram Micro Brings Cisco Vblock Designs to Broader Channel
Cisco’s Vblock infrastructure architecture isn’t just for giant solution providers anymore. IT distribution giant Ingram Micro this week announced that it would make the Cisco, EMC and VMware’s Vblock data center reference designs, the products to build them, and the support needed to do it, available to the 2,500 of its channel partners who are…
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Intel Bails on Larrabee Graphics Chip
(Reuters) – Intel Corp (INTC.O) has scrapped plans to launch an advanced graphics chip based on its novel Larrabee design, after concluding that delays in the project would make it uncompetitive, a spokesman said on Sunday. The move is a setback to Intel’s plans to compete with Nvidia Corp (NVDA.O) and Advanced Micro Devices Inc…