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FTC Sues Intel for Alleged Anticompetitive Practices
What’s already been a very troubling year for Intel just got worse. The Federal Trade Commission is suing the world’s biggest computer chip maker, charging that the company has illegally used its dominant market position for a decade to stifle competition and strengthen its monopoly. They allege that Intel “has waged a systematic campaign to…
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Dell Zeros In on Data Center Storage
The battle for the data center has been heating up recently with the likes of Cisco’s California, HP’s Converged Infrastructure, IBM’s Smarter Planet and the disappearance of Sun, so Dell’s decision to throw its hat in the ring with its own IT-as-a-commodity approach should come as no surprise. However, somewhat buried in the company’s grand…
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Dell Strikes Back at Data Center Rivals HP, Cisco
Dell is taking the build-to-order philosophy that vaulted the company to success in the 1990s and applying it to the data center with a plan for modular components of computing, storage, networking and infrastructure management that can be easily assembled, deployed and managed. The announcement Dec. 10 is Dell’s answer to Cisco Systems’ and Hewlett-Packard’s…
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Analyst Says Dell Stands to Gain First in Server Rebound
Nobody’s going to argue with the fact that x86 server sales were dismal in 2009. Blame it on a combination of a recession that tightened IT budgets together with the effects of virtualization and server consolidation and purchase delays. But what will 2010 look like for VARs looking to sell server hardware to customers? Plenty…
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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…