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Symantec Unveils Deduplication Strategy
Symantec Corp. announced its deduplication strategy with plans to deliver on it over the next year as well as several updates and enhancements to its flagship backup and recovery solution NetBackup. With data volumes increasing daily, companies need a better way to balance backup storage costs with business needs for rapid and reliable data recovery.…
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Corporate PC Refresh Cycle Coming Spring 2010
Just when you thought PC sales would never return, there’s a glimmer of hope for a significant PC refresh cycle on the horizon—good news for resellers of Dell, Hewlett-Packard and maybe even Apple. Bernstein Research is now forecasting a return to PC unit growth next year—with growth of 11 percent in 2010, 13 percent in…
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Seven Things Partners Want to Hear About at the Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference
Seven Things Partners Want to Hear About at the Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference Microsoft partners are clamoring for clarity around the vendor’s software-as-a-service play. Last year’s excitement at the introduction of Business Productivity Online Suite, in particular, has been dampened by widespread dissatisfaction with the partner business model. Partners complain that margins on BPOS resale…
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Sony to Offer $500 Vaio W Series Mini-Notebook
Sony is getting into the netbook mini-notebook game with the release of its new Vaio W series line, squarely aimed at consumers and carrying a hefty price tag of about $500 in the United States – one that puts the netbook in competition against some of the less expensive traditional laptop computers. Sony is only…
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Gartner: Still No Economic Recovery for IT Spending, Sales
Gartner is now forecasting a 6 percent decline in IT spending for 2009, representing a more significant decline than the market research firm’s previous forecast of a 3.8 percent decline. Gartner says that all four major segments of IT spending will experience declines—hardware, software, IT services and telecommunications. "While the global economic downturn shows signs…
