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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…
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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…