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  • Virtualization, Backup Demand Drives New EMC/Ingram Micro Solution Demo Center

    While so much of technology spending has suffered from the ravages of the recession over the last nine months, a few areas have enjoyed relative immunity, and storage and virtualization technologies are often mentioned as two of those areas. Now Ingram Micro, recognizing the strength of and demand for those technologies, is offering a way…

  • Chrome May Usher in a Shiny Future

    Talk about awkward: A chance encounter between Microsoft messiah Bill Gates and Google head-honcho Eric Schmidt just days after Google announced its intention to go after the foundation of the Microsoft empire: Windows. Gates –defender of the Windows faith – was confronted by reporters at last week’s Sun Valley business executive summit about rival Google’s…

  • Microsoft VARs View Google Chrome OS as Opportunity

    Plenty of pundits are talking about how much Microsoft has to lose when Google releases its Chrome operating system, scheduled to debut on consumer netbooks at the end of 2010. And aside from Linux itself, Google’s forthcoming Linux-based Chrome OS may very well pose the biggest threat to Microsoft’s OS dominance that the company has…

  • Wyse VDA Accelerates Cloud Computing over Long Haul

    Thin client technology vendor Wyse Technology today is releasing new software designed to enable thin clients to access far-away data centers without the associated degradation in performance. The Wyse Virtual Desktop Accelerator is designed to make thin-client computing — using either thin client hardware or a repurposed PC — viable for private networks over the…

  • Watching Old Friends Become Enemies

    In a global virtual press and analyst roundtable, Cisco CTO Padmasree Warrior said blade servers being developed by Cisco for its Unified Computing Systems are not intended to compete with existing servers offered by IBM, Dell, Hewlett-Packard or Sun Microsystems. Rather, she says, the UCS strategy is to put the assets in place to help…

  • VMware Boosts Service Provider Partner Program

    Responding to the explosive growth of its VMware Service Provider Partner Program (VSPP), VMware today announced enhancements to the program designed to help service providers better serve customers of all sizes. Launched in 2008, VSPP has seen a more than 450 percent growth rate in the last six months, says Geoff Waters, director of emerging…

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