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HP to Acquire 3Com for $2.7B, Upping Ante Against Cisco
Looking to create a “networking industry powerhouse” and up the ante in its growing rivalry with Cisco, Hewlett-Packard (NYSE:HPQ) has announced it will acquire networking vendor 3Com (NASDAQ: COMS) in a stock deal estimated to be worth about $2.7 billion. HP says the acquisition of 3Com, a provider of network switching, routing and security solutions,…
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Solution Providers Call VMware View 4 Disruptive, Game-Changing
Solution providers are viewing the release of VMware View 4 as a game-changing disruptive technology that could revolutionize how IT infrastructure is deployed today. That’s because the technology, announced this week by VMware, delivers a virtualized PC over IP to the client side, simplifying IT management and disaster recovery in addition to significantly reducing costs.…
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HP, Cisco Initiatives Highlight Data Center Convergence
Got unified computing? These days vendors are pushing these technologies—preintegrated storage, servers, networking and virtualization—in the form of products or reference designs as the answer for all that ails the data center. The message to customers is that these systems make things all work together more efficiently, saving management time, improving system functions and perhaps…
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Virtualization Is No Fad
Gartner released some great information about their predictions on server virtualization. Although server virtualization is not currently as widespread as many presume, the market is growing rapidly, according to Gartner, Inc. Only 16 percent of workloads are running in virtual machines today, but Gartner predicts that this will rise to around 50 percent of x86…
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CA Adds Virtualization Dashboard, Capabilities
Virtualization has remained at the top of IT spending lists this year even as spending on almost every other category has slipped dramatically. And to help IT organizations get the most out of their virtualization investments, solution providers have an array of new technologies to choose from—including a set of offerings introduced by CA this…
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Virtualization: Growing Fast But Still Not Widespread
Virtualization may be a big buzzword in IT circles this year, but it’s not as widespread as many presume. However, its momentum is growing fast, according to the most recent information from Gartner, presented at its Gartner Symposium/ITxpo in Orlando this week. The market research firm says that while only 16 percent of workloads are…