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Microsoft Windows 7 to Hit Market in October
(Reuters) – Microsoft said on Tuesday its new Windows 7 operating system will be generally available on October 22, well ahead of its original schedule and in time for the holiday shopping season. The new operating system, which will replace the unpopular Vista, was originally planned for roll-out at the beginning of next year, but…
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Cisco Pulls Back Curtain on Rack-Mounted Servers
When Cisco Systems announced it was entering the blade server market at the beginning of the year—on the heels of earlier jumps into storage, unified communications and security—it was clear that the titan of networking was seeking a world beyond switches and routers. At the Cisco Partner Summit in Boston on June 3, the company…
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Battle for Data Domain: Two Weeks in the Making, Months to Go
NetApp’s deal to acquire deduplication leader Data Domain took two weeks, from start to finish, to mead out. Now, it appears that what seemed like a done deal will take weeks—if not months—to sort through. Just two weeks ago, NetApp was celebrating its proposed union with Data Domain in a cash-stock deal worth $1.5 billion.…
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HP Software Revamps Partner Program Licensing
Hewlett-Packard is revamping its software licensing options and software channel program in an effort to make more of a play for the managed services platform space and to better accommodate the way end-user companies and solution provider channel partners would prefer to pay. "We are helping partners reduce their risk [and] improve their cash flow…
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Cyberwar Arms Race May Create New Channel Opportunities
President Obama’s plan to form a new cybersecurity czar post and a coordinate campaign to secure the nation’s critical digital infrastructure is spurring the Pentagon and other government agencies to think — as they say in football — on both sides of the ball. In other words, both offensive and defense. Almost immediately after the…