Recent Articles
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Software Financing on the Rise
Companies finance durable goods. In technology and the channel, that often means heavy iron – large storage arrays, mainframes, clusters of servers and bulk-ordered notebooks. But you’d finance nondurable goods, such as software? Big software vendors, such as IBM and Microsoft, are expanding their financing programs to include software and associated services to help solution…
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Avocent Delivers New Kilowatt-Killing Technology
In today’s world of spiraling energy costs, CIOs are looking to squeeze every kilowatt out of the data center and minimize the power footprint of every desktop PC, creating an almost insurmountable challenge to solution providers and the systems administrators they support. While energy savings may start with common-sense policies, those policies are often difficult…
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Oracle, HP Team Up on Data Warehousing Hardware
Oracle is taking a hard stance against data warehouse competitors Teradata and Netezza by teaming up with Hewlett-Packard to market an integrated hardware database appliance. Unveiled at Oracle World this week, the HP Oracle Database Machine’s Exadata Storage Server supports up to 12 terabytes of raw storage data and leverages InfiniBand connectivity. Oracle CEO Charles…
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Toshiba Adds 128 GB of SSD Storage to the Portege Product Line
When a small PC demands a big price, something interesting must be going on. In Toshiba’s case, the small notebook is the Portege R500-S5007V, and the price is $3,000. At just 2.4 pounds, the R500 is one of the lightest machines to grace the market, especially when one considers that the Portege is a two-spindle…
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Tech Companies Scramble in Financial Meltdown
By Jim Finkle – Analysis BOSTON (Reuters) – Technology companies will be pulling out the stops to sign deals before the September quarter closes next week as customers spooked by the U.S. financial meltdown shy away from spending. "It doesn’t take much to keep people from signing a piece of paperwork because they are worried,…
