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IBM Grows Reach of Blade.org
IBM is getting a boost for its Blade.org group in the form of more financing, additional members and a new product. The Armonk, N.Y., technology giant kicked off Blade.org in February as a vehicle for encouraging other vendors to build products on top of IBM’s BladeCenter platform. The organization was one of the latest moves…
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HP Hires Best Buy Exec to Run Online Sales Effort
Hewlett-Packard announced June 5 that it has hired former Best Buy executive, Sam Taylor, to lead Web sales in a bid to boost direct sales of the company’s portfolio of personal systems and imaging and printing products and services. Taylor, a veteran of online and catalog sales, was named senior vice president of HP Online…
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Microsoft Announces Team Development Tool for Databases
Microsoft announced a new member of its Visual Studio Team System family geared toward database professionals, and the company also gave some more direction on the future of its development tools overall. Microsoft on May 31 announced Visual Studio Team Edition for Database Professionals, expanding Visual Studio 2005 Team System to include tools that let…
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Microsoft Finds (Random) Way to Secure Vista
A security feature used in the open-source world is now helping to harden Windows Vista against buffer overrun exploits. Microsoft has quietly fitted the feature, called ASLR (Address Space Layout Randomization) in Windows Vista Beta 2 as part of a larger plan to make it more difficult to automate attacks against the operating system. “Not…
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Logicalis Opens First HP Demonstration Center
Logicalis, one of North America’s largest Hewlett-Packard resellers, opened a HP demonstration center in Cincinnati on May 30, the first of three planned sites, to test solutions and close sales. The demonstration center, outfitted with HP midrange and SMB (small and midsize business) technology—Integrity servers, EVA (Enterprise Virtual Array) StorageWorks products and BladeSystem infrastructure—will allow…
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Cisco Helps VARs Deploy with ‘Progress Payments’
Cisco Capital, the finance arm of network vendor Cisco Systems, is offering its VARs interest-free advances, called Progress Payments, to help cover expenses during lengthy deployments. The measure will enable Cisco VARs to juggle more projects at once without struggling to keep the lights on while waiting for final payment, said the San Jose, Calif.,…
