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VMware Express Motoring On
Interested in desktop virtualization and thin-client technology, but just feel like you need to see it work before you’re ready to look into it further? Well, the VMware Express is for you. The 18-wheeler truck will be rolling on a U.S. tour this year and is likely coming to a town near you. Look inside:…
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Selling Small Business Customers on Unified Communications
Image via Wikipedia For all the benefits it provides, including saving employees an hour of productivity a day (according to a study), unified communications isn’t always an easy sale. It’s cool technology – unified e-mail inbox, instant messaging, conferencing by video and/or phone, presence – but in 2010 CIOs are looking for hard ROI numbers.…
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Small Business on Microsoft Hyper-V Virtualization: Free, Good Enough
Image via Wikipedia If you are a small business with under 10 servers, does it really make sense to jump into virtualization? For these organizations the benefits of virtualization may be less about server consolidation and more about portability, disaster recovery and centralized management. If your servers go down, is your business still operating? Or…
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Resellers Still Waiting for Apple Answer on iPad Sales
Image by d!zzy via Flickr Nearly two weeks after Apple announced its iPad tablet, sparking gadget lust among both consumers and business users who have to wait weeks and weeks to get their hands on the device, Apple has yet to let its resellers know whether they will have access to the product to sell…
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PC to Thin Client, a Transition Strategy for Desktop Virtualization
Greater energy efficiency, centralized management savings, lower acquisition costs and a longer lifetime. When you put it that way, what’s not to like about desktop virtualization and thin clients? But many companies have balked at the idea of what they see as some trimmed-down terminal model of computing. Users want their familiar PC desktop. Tell…
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Can Tablet PCs Move from the Consumer Market to the Boardroom? iPhones Did
Even sight unseen, tablet computers certainly seem to be the hot new form factor of 2010, as Apple prepares to release its market entry on Jan. 27, Acer tells a Bloomberg reporter that it is planning a tablet and several other companies have said they are also planning tablet computers. Is it any wonder? The…
