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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…
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Dell Reorganization Puts Focus on Smartphones
For the second time in less than a year, Dell is reorganizing its business divisions, this time adding a communications division to head up its smartphone initiative and combining its consumer and SMB divisions into a single division. A Dell spokesman tells Channel Insider that the combination of the consumer and SMB divisions will simplify…
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Absolute Acquires Asset Management Company
Absolute Software yesterday announced the $12.1 million acquisition of Pole Position Software, owner of LANrev, in a deal that will help expand Absolute further into asset management. Absolute is best known for its Computrace software suite, which enables enterprises to track the location of mobile assets with its geotechnology feature and freeze device data in…
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Busted: Microsoft’s Anti-Piracy Blitz
Claiming a more than 100 percent increase in reports from people who unknowingly purchased counterfeit software, Microsoft Corp. (www.microsoft.com) has announced Consumer Action Day, a simultaneous launch of education initiatives and enforcement actions in more than 70 countries to “help protect consumers and increase awareness of the risks of counterfeit software.” The company reports more…
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Cisco Gains More Than 90% of Tandberg Shares
The Cisco/Tandberg deal will be completed after all, for the raised price of about $3.4 billion. Cisco announced on Dec. 4 that it now controls 91.1 percent of shares and voting rights of Tandberg, meeting the networking giant’s set requirement of 90 percent of shares it needed to acquire the company. Cisco’s acquisition means that…