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Survey: Alternative Vendors Offer Cutting-Edge Benefits
It’s a matter of when, not if. Eventually a customer will ask for some feature, function or price point that just can’t be pulled off with the current vendors’ product set. At that point, a VAR can try to come up with a custom solution from the products it already sells. According to a new…
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HP Overhauls Business, Consumer Notebook Lines
Nearly lost amid the clamor surrounding its launch of a new consumer touch-screen device, Hewlett-Packard on June 10 overhauled its notebook PC lineup with 16 new models in dozens of configurations aimed at both home and business users. The massive refresh from HP’s Personal System Group further distanced the world’s largest computer maker from rivals…
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VMware Prepares for Hyper-V
ORLANDO, Fla.—Eric Horschman knows that the once-cozy relationship that VMware and Microsoft once enjoyed is about to change in the next few weeks. “We’re clearly about to go into direct competition with Microsoft with its Hyper-V technology,” Horschman, the director of product marketing for VMware, said in an interview here at the Microsoft TechEd 2008…
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Symantec, Citrix Unveil New VI Package
LAS VEGAS—Symantec introduced its new Veritas Virtual Infrastructure enterprise product—developed in concert with Citrix—June 10 at the company’s Vision user conference here at the Venetian Hotel. Veritas Virtual Infrastructure combines Symantec’s Veritas Storage Foundation storage management capabilities with the server operations of Citrix XenServer. This combination of technologies will give data center managers centralized control of…
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Netgear’s FVS336G Shows There’s Still Some Life Left in Selling Firewalls
Network security for a small business can be a funny thing. After all, small businesses need the same level of protection that is found in an enterprise, yet small businesses don’t have an enterprise budget, which creates a conundrum for VARs looking to secure those small-business customers. Netgear’s vision is to give small businesses good…
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VMware Faces Virtual Reality
A year after VMware’s successful IPO, virtualization has shifted gears from niche technology to the must-have underpinning for projects ranging from disaster recovery to data backup to desktop application delivery. It’s not surprising, then, that other companies are developing products for the market that VMware has been synonymous with up until now. So CEO Diane…
