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Go Configure: Web-Based Tools for Storage Are Showing Up
For resellers, Web-based server configurators are old hat. Storage configurators, however, mark a newer area of activity. Manufacturers and distributors are both rolling out these storage tools on the Web. Configurators are intended to help resellers sort through storage options, speed up the design phase and determine whether a solution will work in actual practice.…
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IBM’s PC Biz Sale Will Be Ho-Hum for Resellers
The revelation that IBM may be selling off its PC operations isn’t exactly a surprise. Market analysts have been pressing IBM to do this for years, but the company has resisted. Now, with competition getting tougher and margins declining or disappearing, the time apparently has come. IBM won’t be selling IBM PCs, assuming that current…
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IBM PC Retreat Would Shift Market Balance to Asia
Reports that IBM might spin off or sell its PC business have refocused attention on the evolving role of contract manufacturers and Asian ODMs, those companies who actually build the PCs that are later branded as “Dell” or “HP.” The same factors that have helped “original device manufacturers” such as Hon Hai Precision Industry (Foxconn)…
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Unified 802.11n Wi-Fi Standard to Emerge in Mid-2006
SAN JOSE, Calif.—The first products that support a fully unified 802.11n Wi-Fi standard will start reaching the market in the second quarter of 2006, according to some of the wireless industry executives who are working to define the standard. The executives, speaking here at a Wi-Fi Planet Fall 2004 panel on “N Wars—the Struggle to…
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IBM Prepares to Leave an Industry It Created
In August 1981, the world of computing changed. When IBM launched its first IBM PC, most observers at the time simply thought it was a good move by a company that was already a leader. The new computer would help IBM stay relevant and provide a new class of computers that would add some revenue.…
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Analysts: Is Lenovo Right for IBM’s PC Biz?
A report in The New York Times that IBM is poised to sell off its PC unit has provoked mixed reactions and tentative interpretations from analysts who follow the historic company. The Times’ story said negotiations of such a sale have progressed between Armonk, N.Y.-based IBM and Lenovo Group, China’s biggest maker of personal computers,…
