Microsoft Windows

New Edge sync file services highlight broad Hitachi Content Platform upgrades

September 28, 2018 Mark Cox Comments Off

Hitachi Content Platform, which is fundamental to Hitachi Vantara’s second step in their Stairway to Value by enriching data and providing compliance safeguards, gets some important integration upgrades, but the showier part of this announcement is around the sync variant, HCP Anywhere, which now has an Edge capability that broadens its use case into both IoT and larger ROBO environments.

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Veeam announces availability of major new flagship release

December 19, 2017 Mark Cox Comments Off

The 9.5.3 release contains some major elements which were scheduled to be part of Veeam 10, but which were pushed out now since they are ready to go.

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ViewSonic, Userful roll out first joint VDI product for low-cost markets

November 10, 2014 Mark Cox Comments Off

ViewSonic and Calgary-based Userful announced last month that they would bundle Userful’s software and ViewSonic’s hardware into a VDI bundle, and now the first solution from this partnership has been announced.

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Doug Oathout, Vice President of Global Marketing, SMB & Alliances at HP.

HP, Microsoft joint initiative to capture Windows Server 2003 transition

July 14, 2014 Mark Cox Comments Off

With the Windows XP support deadline in the rear-view mirror, HP and Microsoft are turning their attention to the end of support for Windows Server 2003.

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Windows 8 sales grow, but still woeful

June 3, 2014 Larry Walsh (Channelnomics) Comments Off

Microsoft struggles to get legacy Windows XP users to convert to Windows 8 mostly because there’s a better option still available: Windows 7.

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Steve Fairbanks, Vice President of Product Delivery for the Data Management business at CA Technologies

CA Technologies unveils next-gen arcserve

May 7, 2014 Mark Cox Comments Off

CA Technology’s arcserv UDP adds “Assured Recovery” backups, remains 100 per cent channel.

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Nadella reaction: Upbeat with a touch of meh

February 5, 2014 Chris Gonsalves (Channelnomics) Comments Off

Turns out most key industry executives are feeling at least optimistic about Satya Nadella’s Microsoft promotion, but some analysts see it differently.

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Windows 8.1 update brings some PC relief

February 3, 2014 Chris Gonsalves (Channelnomics) Comments Off

A series of leaked Windows screenshots making the rounds seems to indicate Redmond knows how to handle criticism and has made some changes accordingly.

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HP Chromebooks Reflect Erosion in Windows Dominance

October 23, 2013 Larry Walsh (Channelnomics) 2

At a time when HP CEO Meg Whitman says former allies Microsoft and Intel are now rivals, HP’s move towards Chromebook show the challenges Windows faces.

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HP CEO Whitman: Microsoft, Intel Now Rivals

October 15, 2013 Larry Walsh (Channelnomics) Comments Off

Hewlett-Packard CEO Meg Whitman tells analysts longtime partners in innovation Intel and Microsoft are now competitors

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VMWare Acquires Desktone for Desktop as a Service

October 15, 2013 Larry Walsh (Channelnomics) Comments Off

Virtualization vendor VMware is expanding its virtual desktop infrastructure capabilities by acquiring cloud-based provider of such services, Desktone.

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IBM: Cloud-based Disaster Recovery Is Catching On

September 4, 2013 Chris Gonsalves (Channelnomics) Comments Off

IBM says cloud disaster recovery services are catching on, a welcome sign for resellers that the technology is gaining traction.

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Lenovo North American channel chief Chris Frey

Lenovo PC Plus: A Trend Driving Channel Sales

August 19, 2013 Larry Walsh (Channelnomics) Comments Off

The PC Plus strategy from Lenovo allows partners to explain why users should buy touch-enable devices for what will inevitably become a touch-enabled world.

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Microsoft Reorg More About Culture, Operations

July 12, 2013 Larry Walsh (Channelnomics) Comments Off

Microsoft’s massive reorganization has little to do with technology, but rather business structure, corporate culture and operations.

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Hail Lenovo: The New King of PCs

July 12, 2013 Larry Walsh (Channelnomics) Comments Off

Lenovo overtook HP again in quarterly PC shipments, becoming the largest personal computer manufacturer in the world. But the PC market continues to shrink.

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