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Toshiba Notebook Shows a Melding of Markets
Toshiba has always had to serve two masters with its notebook computer line. Certain systems were designed with the consumer in mind, while others were designed with the business user in mind. After all, the data processing needs of a typical business user are different from the edutainment needs of the typical consumer. But the…
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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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Avnet, HP Team to Offer Backup Vaulting as a Service
Solution providers can now add a hardware-as-a-service data vaulting service to their portfolios and a monthly recurring revenue stream to their top line thanks to a new alliance between Hewlett-Packard and distributor Avnet. Avnet Technology Solutions, an operating group of the distributor, has announced the collaboration with HP that offers a new managed service, HP…
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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…
