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HP Intros New Storage, Virtualization Solutions
Hewlett-Packard has introduced new storage products and services that it hopes will allow customers to successfully weather the economic downturn and emerge from the economic crises stronger than ever. Kyle Fitze, director of marketing for storage platforms for HP StorageWorks, says HP’s new products and services focus on customers’ needs to optimize and automate their…
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VPro ROI Doesn’t Require a Complete PC Refresh
More than 30 million business-class PCs have been sold with Intel’s remote management VPro technology since 2006. Yet, many organizations have only refreshed parts of their computing fleets or haven’t activated VPro capabilities until they reach a critical mass of machines. The reason end users are waiting is they’re either waiting to purchase a critical…
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USA.NET, HP Partner to Deliver SaaS to Target SMBs
USA.NET will partner with Hewlett-Packard to deliver a more comprehensive set of hosted services and advanced collaboration tools that can generate new revenue streams for solution providers. The agreement, announced last week, will allow HP’s approximately 25,000 solution provider partners access to USA.NET’s hosted e-mail, messaging and collaboration solutions as a part of their software-as-a-service…
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Symantec’s New CEO Is Committed to Growing with the Channel
Competitors have crowed about stealing accounts and robbing market share away from Symantec. They say they’re slowly chipping away at Big Yellow’s dominance in the security industry because Symantec has become distracted by its adventures in storage and systems management. And many solution providers say they are switching away from Symantec because of poor products…
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Librato Leverages Old-School Concepts for New-World Data Centers
Librato’s newly announced channel partner program will leverage old-school workload management concepts with cutting-edge technology to better support solution providers who want to take enterprise customers beyond virtualization. John Wernke, vice president of marketing for Librato, says while workload management concepts have been around since the early days of computing, the tenets of resource optimization…
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Ultralights, MacBook Air and Netbooks, Oh My
If you want to create some controversy, just say something along the lines of “The MacBook Air sucks for business.” While that may be a blanket statement that unfairly casts the MacBook Air in a negative light, there’s some truth to the statement when one takes a look at competing products and how they are…