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Dell had a coming-out party for its new solutions for business and government in San Francisco, which it had been building both organically and through acquisitions. To showcase the progress it has... More >
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Last week, Cisco reported a major component failure with its new suicidal server blades . Evidently, the company tried a software fix first and another server flamed out after the patch, so it decid... More >
Microsoft’s Steven Sinofsky announced Windows on ARM (WOA) in a blog today and the word “disruptive” is hardly adequate. Other than the fact that Microsoft needs some serious work on naming, isn’t ... More >
The interesting thing about EMC's new flash storage technologies named "Lightning" and "Thunder" is that they likely make all large-scale databases obsolete from a performance perspective. That was... More >

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