Dell today unveiled a series of end-to-end storage portfolio updates aimed at further optimising enterprise data at every point of its lifecycle. The new products were revealed by Darren Thomas, VP and GM, Dell Storage, at the ...
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It’s clear that Frank Frankovsky, VP of hardware design and supply chain at Facebook, didn’t study marketing in school. At a press event Tuesday announcing Intel’s new low-power Atom processor, he described the chip as ...
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When economic times are hard there is always pressure on budgets in every area of business operations. Indeed justifying any spend at all has become subject to ever more intense scrutiny and in IT this has been reflected by vendors ...
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Brocade yesterday announced that it will acquire privately held Vyatta in an all-cash transaction. Vyatta is based in Belmont, Calif. and is a networking industry innovator through its software-based network operating system that is ...
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Dell Powee M1000e Blade chassis Brocade has announced a partnership with Dell in the hope of offering the industry’s first complete, end-to-end 16 Gbps Fibre Channel (FC) solution based on Dell Compellent. The solution includes ...
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Dell announces Quest Software acquisition… finally Dell has entered into a definitive agreement to buy desktop virtualisation-related vendor Quest Software for $2.36bn (pound 1.51bn). Under terms of the agreement, Dell Inc. will ...
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Citrix has extended the XenApp product lifecycle to align it with the lifecycles of corresponding Microsoft server platforms. But IT pros are advised to upgrade quickly to avoid extended support costs that could add up to about euro 200,000 ...
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As Cisco wraps up migrating its Catalyst 6500 installed base to either the E-series chassis or the Nexus platform, the company has plenty on tap next year for the venerable core switch. Cisco's working on some new ASICs for the entire ...
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VMware warned on Sunday that more of its source code for its ESX hypervisor technology could become public after another batch of code was released by a hacker. The source code dates from 2004 and is related to other code released in ...
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Salford City Council will offer a private cloud service to local businesses through a partnership with ANS Group. The community cloud project is built on a multi-tenanted cloud platform installed and supported by ANS Group in partnership ...
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Virtualisation has been highlighted as the technology that delivers the most positive results for businesses as IT heads meet the challenge of doing the same for less. Research of 100 CIOs at firms with more than 1,000 employees, carried ...
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Cisco Systems is to cut around 1,300 jobs or 2% of its workforce in continued efforts to cut costs and streamline decision making. The company said in a statement: "We routinely review our business to determine where we need to align ...
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Microsoft officially launched Windows Server 2012 today in Dubai, describing it as a cornerstone of the Cloud OS that provides customers with a modern platform for the world’s applications. Samer Abu Ltaif, General Manager, ...
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FirePro S9000 and S7000 are designed to meet the multiple data centre deployment requirements Semiconductor firm AMD has launched two new server graphics cards, FirePro S9000 and S7000, for compute, virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) ...
Combines the new 'Piledriver' CPU architecture with DirectX 11-capable AMD Radeon HD 7000 Series graphics Semiconducter company AMD has launched new Embedded R-Series accelerated processing unit (APU) platform designed for mid to high-end ...
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