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HP Denies Report Its PC Business Is for Sale
Hewlett-Packard officials have moved quickly to stamp out rumors that the company was planning to sell its PC business. In a terse two-paragraph statement issued March 10, Bill Wohl, HP’s senior vice president and chief communications officer, said the rumors were unfounded and illogical, and took aim at the source of the rumors. "Irresponsible reporting…
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Sensitive Data More Likely to be Transferred on Tablets
Tablets are fast gaining interest in enterprise segments, where security has long been a major concern, but IT managers are slowly softening to the idea of supporting employee-owned devices. However, tablet users, it turns out, are transferring sensitive information at a greater rate than even smartphone owners, according to a March 10 report from Harris…
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MSP CSG Healthnet Solutions Sinks its Teeth into Dental Market
Stricter regulations over the management of patient records combined with a technology world that is moving more towards the public cloud and managed services places additional hurdles in front of healthcare businesses and their trusted IT advisors, but with these challenges come rewards for integrators and MSPs. Regulations and a changing IT landscape are creating…
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Channel Headlines – Mardi Gras Week Edition
Image via Wikipedia Heard of a little something called the cloud? You can’t venture anywhere these days without hearing the cloud buzzword. But that’s with good reason. Cloud is fundamentally changing how people and businesses consume technology and how vendors, telcos, and IT solution providers operate their businesses. Maybe that’s why Michael Capellas, former Compaq…
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Midmarket Companies Lagging on Mobile Security: Report
Midmarket companies are not doing enough to protect their mobile phones, according to survey results by research firm Canalys. Based on 814 SMB (small and midsize business) respondents, the report indicated that 86 percent of SMBs have not yet adopted mobile phone security throughout their organizations. The research signals an “alarming gap” between the growing…
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VMWare Launches Cloud Control Platform
VMware already supplies the world’s most popular virtualization layer for IT systems. Now the company wants to become your handy-dandy cloud computing operations provider. VMware on March 9 launched a new platform, VMware vCenter Operations, which centralizes and automates administrative control of dynamic virtual and cloud environments. The new package provides visibility throughout a private…
