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Desktop Virtualization: Ready for Prime Time or Still Hype?
Is desktop virtualization a promising new technology, or is it still a bunch of hype? Well, if you’re a CIO, chances are you don’t believe that desktop virtualization technology can deliver on everything it promises yet. That’s according to a new survey commissioned by Fujitsu that shows that 49 percent of private-sector CIOs say desktop…
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Hardware’s Not Glamorous
I just completed another hardware spec. Like every hardware spec I’ve done in the past six years, I spent a while tweaking CPU, memory and disk. I could spend an entire day playing with the various RAID configurations for performance versus cost. If I add lots of spindles to a system, I increase performance, but…
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Technology Giants Trend Higher in Quarter Revenues
Boom times may not be on the way anytime soon, but a quick look at the revenues reported by some of the big technology companies in their most recent quarters shows a promising sign. That is, for the most part, even though companies are reporting year-over-year declines in revenues still, they are also reporting revenues…
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Applications On the Go
Virtual desktops and applications are increasingly interesting to me. Today I decided to move my company, Evolve, from Quickbooks 2007 to Quickbooks 2010. I’ve never been a huge Quickbooks fan, but QB 2010 has some dashboard features that actually make a big difference in the way I use the program, and put the information I…
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EMC Adds Desktop, Laptop and Virtualization Support to Avamar Deduplication Technology
While EMC’s biggest news in the deduplication arena may have been around its acquisition of Data Domain earlier this year, that doesn’t mean that the storage and security giant has stopped progress on its other deduplication technology. EMC is expanding its Avamar software—designed as backup software for servers in the enterprise, to officially support desktops…
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Virtualization Will Be a Driver for 2010 Server Refresh
Server vendors are at the ready as 2010 approaches, awaiting what could be a significant refresh of server hardware. Hewlett-Packard, Dell, IBM and even Cisco Systems have introduced new server hardware as the new year approaches. That’s because some IT organizations have used virtualization as a tactic to postpone server hardware upgrades during the recession.…