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HP, Cisco Initiatives Highlight Data Center Convergence
Got unified computing? These days vendors are pushing these technologies—preintegrated storage, servers, networking and virtualization—in the form of products or reference designs as the answer for all that ails the data center. The message to customers is that these systems make things all work together more efficiently, saving management time, improving system functions and perhaps…
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Workshare Offers Workshare Compare for PowerPoint
Microsoft partners looking to add some incremental value to Microsoft Office sales, take heed. Workshare has introduced Workshare Compare for PowerPoint, software that tracks changes to Power Point presentations that have been edited and reviewed by users besides the author. It’s a need that’s on the rise. Workshare says that about 30 million PowerPoint presentations…
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Symantec Reveals 2010 Channel Plan at Partner Engage Conference
Security and storage channel providers converged in Orlando, Fla., this week to meet up with representatives at Symantec for the company’s annual Partner Engage conference. The intensive day-and-a-half event is highlighted by several sneak peeks into Symantec’s channel plans for 2010, including a new demo platform and a newly adjusted renewal incentive plan tweaked to…
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Intel Accused of Kickbacks in Antitrust Suit
(Reuters) – Intel Corp was sued by New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo, who accused the world’s largest chipmaker of threatening computer makers and paying billions of dollars in kickbacks to maintain its market dominance. The lawsuit accuses Intel of violating state and federal antitrust law through a "systematic worldwide campaign" of bullying and coercion…
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HP New Data Center Strategy Strikes Back at Cisco
HP is semi-retiring its Adaptive Infrastructure initiative, unveiled in 2003, and announcing the Converged Infrastructure architecture, claiming it is the only vendor that can provide it, albeit in an open and standards-based approach that will be inclusive of other vendors, and which will have a substantial role for the channel. The announcement follows one by…
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Cisco, EMC, VMware Take Pre-Packaged Data Center Solution Vblock to Channel Partners
Looking to make it easier for channel partners to deploy data center and cloud technology at customer sites, Cisco has formed a coalition with EMC and VMware which will create reference designs for an infrastructure architecture it calls Vblock which incorporates technologies from all three companies including Cisco’s Unified Computing line up of products. The…