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I Don’t Care if It’s Virtual, I Want to Look at It Anyway
On the premise that buyers are more likely to spend on something they can see and touch–even if it’s virtual–Tech Data is offering two mobile virtualization labs available to ship to resellers or their customer sites for demonstration purposes. The labs are 25U racks configured with IBM and HP servers and storage running virtualization solutions…
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The Tech That Had VARs Talking in Hershey
This week’s D&H Mid-Atlantic Technology show drew some 1,000 attendees to Hershey, Pa. Besides great door prizes, the buffet dinner and the promise of a six-hour open bar, which products from the 128 vendors at the show had VARs clamoring to get into the exhibit hall? The results range from the practical to the frivolous. Henry…
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Survey: Alternative Vendors Offer Cutting-Edge Benefits
It’s a matter of when, not if. Eventually a customer will ask for some feature, function or price point that just can’t be pulled off with the current vendors’ product set. At that point, a VAR can try to come up with a custom solution from the products it already sells. According to a new…
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HP Overhauls Business, Consumer Notebook Lines
Nearly lost amid the clamor surrounding its launch of a new consumer touch-screen device, Hewlett-Packard on June 10 overhauled its notebook PC lineup with 16 new models in dozens of configurations aimed at both home and business users. The massive refresh from HP’s Personal System Group further distanced the world’s largest computer maker from rivals…
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VMware Prepares for Hyper-V
ORLANDO, Fla.—Eric Horschman knows that the once-cozy relationship that VMware and Microsoft once enjoyed is about to change in the next few weeks. “We’re clearly about to go into direct competition with Microsoft with its Hyper-V technology,” Horschman, the director of product marketing for VMware, said in an interview here at the Microsoft TechEd 2008…
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VMware Faces Virtual Reality
A year after VMware’s successful IPO, virtualization has shifted gears from niche technology to the must-have underpinning for projects ranging from disaster recovery to data backup to desktop application delivery. It’s not surprising, then, that other companies are developing products for the market that VMware has been synonymous with up until now. So CEO Diane…
