February 4, 2010
Fujitsu and Symantec tie-up storage bundling deal
The Register
Chris Mellor shares details around some new product bundle offerings from Fujitsu and Symantec.
“(Fujitsu and Symantec) will jointly identify and provide bundles integrating both of their products and services which they will sell to medium and large enterprises. Fujitsu will contribute its Primergy servers and Eternus storage arrays. Symantec will throw in the usual suspects of Backup Exec, Backup Exec System Recovery, Net Backup, Storage Foundation and Endpoint Protection.”
Netbooks to see speed boost this year
Register Hardware
Tony Smith writes about improvements to watch out for in regards to netbook memory.
“Expect to see Atom-based netbooks speed up a little in the latter half of the year when Intel releases upgraded Atom CPUs able to talk to faster memory than the current lot can manage. Today’s top-of-the-line netbook Atom, the 1.66GHz N450, connects to DDR 2 Ram through its built-in memory controller. Later this year, Intel will release the N455, which will hook up to DDR 3 memory. DDR 2 runs at up to 800MHz. DDR 3 can clock at more than double that frequency.”
2010 Desktop Virtualization Trends
Network World
Mark Bowker writes about the desktop virtualization landscape.
“Is desktop virtualization part of your plans for 2010? It should be: 18 per cent of IT decision makers we recently surveyed consider it to be a top priority for 2010. You can see further details, trends, and analysis in my brief, 2010 Desktop Virtualization Trends. There are plenty of gaps in solution and technology maturity, market consolidation, and education that need to be filled, but the opportunity is looking ripe. Also look for Windows 7 to act as a catalyst for the desktop virtualization market.”
