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• Windows 8 touchscreen devices to be priced higher: Dell

  By Agam Shah | 23 May, 2012 09:43

  Touchscreen laptops and tablets with the upcoming Windows 8 OS will be priced higher than their non-touchscreen counterparts, according to Dell's CEO, Michael Dell.

• Dell's profit shrinks in the first quarter

  By Agam Shah | 23 May, 2012 06:51

  Dell has reported a drop in profits for the first quarter, weighed down by a revenue decrease and slower sales of consumer products.

• Silver Peak bolsters virtual WAN optimization software

  By Jon Gold | 22 May, 2012 02:27

  Silver Peak today upgraded the software for its WAN appliance to handle automated optimization for TCP and non-TCP traffic, 512,000 simultaneous connections for 10 gigabit-per-second (Gbps) infrastructures and support for a bunch of common hypervisors.

• China's Baidu unveils new low-end smartphone with latest cloud platform

  By Michael Kan | 15 May, 2012 22:29

  Baidu, which runs China's most popular search engine, has unveiled its newest smartphone, featuring the company's own mobile platform and priced to target the country's low-end handset segment.

• SAP lays out cloud strategy post-SuccessFactors deal

  By Chris Kanaracus | 15 May, 2012 22:06

  SAP announced a broad set of plans to become a player in cloud computing, spanning from a "loosely coupled suite" of business applications to data integration and PaaS (platform as a service) Tuesday during the Sapphire conference in Orlando.

• Dell, IBM announce servers with new Intel Xeon chips

  By Agam Shah | 15 May, 2012 01:09

  Dell and IBM announced servers with Intel's latest Xeon server chips, which will bring faster throughput and memory allowing servers to take on more complex workloads while reducing data center costs.

• Google shares Codie award for best cloud application/service

  By Paul Krill | 11 May, 2012 10:30

  This evening's annual Codie awards for business software features a three-way tie in cloud computing, with Google, Keynote Systems, and Scribe Software all winning in the Best Cloud Application/Service category.

• Dell announces first server with Intel's Ivy Bridge Xeon chips

  By Agam Shah | 08 May, 2012 23:04

  Dell on Tuesday announced a new microserver with Intel's first Xeon server processors based on the Ivy Bridge microarchitecture, which has not been officially announced by the chip maker yet.

• IBM on oath to cut internal apps by 85 per cent

  By Patrick Thibodeaau | 07 May, 2012 23:36

  IBM has reduced the number of applications it uses internally by 70%, but that's not enough for CIO Jeanette Horan.

• Facebook's open-source data-center project gains strength

  By Agam Shah | 03 May, 2012 06:21

  Facebook's year-old project to develop open-source hardware designs with the aim to build efficient data centers gained momentum on Wednesday, with some top technology companies joining the effort and introducing server designs.

• What will it take to get more women execs in IT?

  By Michael Friedenberg | 01 May, 2012 05:57

  As the father of two young girls, I often think ahead to what fields my children might pursue in their professional careers. Since my own career is devoted to high-tech media, I naturally think about the world of STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) and wonder if it's a path I would recommend to my daughters.

• Dell brings 40-Gigabit Ethernet into its PowerEdge blade system

  By Stephen Lawson | 24 April, 2012 22:09

  Dell will flesh out its new virtual networking strategy at Interop next month when it shows off a 40-Gigabit Ethernet switch for its PowerEdge M1000e blade system announced Tuesday, extends its management software and shows its equipment working with the OpenFlow standard for SDN (software-defined networking).

• IBM on path to cut internal apps by 85%

  By Patrick Thibodeau | 23 April, 2012 20:08

  NEW YORK -- IBM has reduced its number of internal applications by 70%, but that's not enough for CIO Jeanette Horan.

• Are IBM, Cisco and Oracle IT platforms really comparable?

  By Jim Duffy | 13 April, 2012 22:39

  IBM's new PureSystems integrated data center offering is drawing comparisons to Cisco's UCS and other convergence platforms from leading IT vendors.

• Dell buys application modernization firm Clerity

  By Chris Kanaracus | 04 April, 2012 00:05

  Dell said Tuesday it has purchased application modernization vendor Clerity Solutions, in its second enterprise software-related acquisition news this week.