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Managed Services Is Just the Tip of the Iceberg
The managed business model seems tailor-made for the VAR community. Any VAR not seriously looking into providing this type of service for its clients, whether it be on the database, network, security, server or storage management front, is missing a huge opportunity. And I am here to tell you that 99 percent of VARs that…
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IBM Woos SMBs with Open-Source Tools
IBM has announced plans to extend Linux support for its collaboration tools and to release to the open-source community its framework for searching unstructured data. Continuing its push to woo small businesses into adopting its portal-based Workplace Services Express team collaboration offering, IBM teamed up with Red Hat Inc. to make it easier for SMBs…
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Intel Cuts P4 Prices
Intel Corp. over the weekend cut prices on its 64-bit line of desktop processors. The Santa Clara, Calif., chip maker reduced the cost of its five single-core Pentium 4 6xx chips from 20.15 percent to 33.72 percent. All feature 2MB of Level 2 cache and an 800MHz front-side bus, with the key difference being the…
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Intel Swaps Clock Speed for Power Efficiency
Intel, which next week is expected to announce plans to move to a new processor architecture, is switching to a new yardstick to measure processor performance: performance per watt. Intel Corp. is expected to detail next week at its IDF (Intel Developer Forum) a plan to begin building multicore chips with the architecture, a modified…
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Fledgling USB Backup System Vendor Takes on Tape
Darren McBride wanted to a make a point when he came up with a name for the backup systems he started selling last year: He named them Highly Reliable Systems. That name, says McBride, goes to the crux of why he got into backup systems in the first place. Four years ago, after a couple…
