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Replacing Desktop PCs with Zero-Client Solutions
With zero-client computing, what’s old is new again. The whole idea is to move computing back to the data center and away from the desktop. A zero-client environment is often less expensive and easier to deploy and manage. Its trio of possibilities is not lost on solution providers and IT directors. Channel Insider’s Guide to Zero…
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How to Get IT Job Security and a 6-Figure Salary
Looking for a six-figure salary and a virtual guarantee of a job? Even as the recession grinds on and unemployment remains high, virtualization engineers are enjoying boom-time salaries and job opportunities. As more companies look to server consolidation and virtualization as their big IT projects for saving money in 2009 and beyond, and others look…
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Top 5 Ways Virtualization Saves You Money
Cisco Systems’ unveiling of its unified computing architecture for the data center will only pour more fuel on the virtualization wildfire. Its blade server framework is heavily reliant upon virtualization technology—such as that provided by VMware and Microsoft (Hyper-V). Cisco’s unified computing architecture is designed for “highly virtualized” environments, which is typically large enterprises. But…
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INX Hosts Cisco Unified Computing Summits
INX, a large systems integrator based in Houston, is likely the first of Cisco Systems’ global network of data center specialty companies to launch headlong into Cisco’s new unified computing systems by hosting a multicity event around the virtualized blade server architecture. Just a day after Cisco took the wraps off its unified computing system…
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NComputing Aims to Disrupt Desktop Virtualization
NComputing is changing the rules of desktop virtualization with its proprietary all-in-one solutions, allowing solution providers to deliver high-performance desktop virtualization solutions at a fraction of the cost of competitors such as VMware and Citrix. NComputing developed its own desktop virtualization software and associated hardware appliances in-house, allowing its solution providers a one-stop solution for…
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EMC Adds VMware to Proven Solutions Portfolio
EMC will add VMware to its portfolio of EMC Proven vendors to help solution providers more easily virtualize their customers’ data centers and increase efficiency and cost savings. EMC’s Proven solutions are packages that incorporate EMC technology with that of other vendors to help solution providers address customers’ most common solutions needs, says Todd Pavone,…