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MAY 12, 2008Issue 1178

I am really excited about [HP's ExDS9100]. I do think that it is going to be a big shift in storage to allow companies to scale bigger, faster and easier to meet the massively growing needs for data.

Andrew Reichman, a senior analyst at Forrester Research.

	Glenn Bontje, business development manager for storage and high performance computing at HP Canada

HP introduces extreme storage
Once only available for web companies needing storage for rich media content and highly scalable unstructured files, HP's extreme storage will be available for the general enterprise customer -- but not until the fall.
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Solution provider Softchoice continues huge growth in revenues
Softchoice reported its revenues increased 77 percent to $299 million (US) in 1Q08, with its' hardware revenue growing by 167 percent, although integrating new acquisitions did cause its net income to be only half what it was last year.
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Companies not properly preparing for commoditization
Gartner says that IT managers cannot see the forest from the trees as they integrate components and applications, and fail to appreciate when customization just adds costs that could be eliminated with a standard product.
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How Hyper-V can benefit you and your clients
It is important to educate your clients about the benefits of Microsoft's Hyper-V to help them in their virtualization decision process. Learn the three most important benefits of Hyper-V and get access to a release candidate version of this emerging technology now
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IT marketing and sales budgets to rise in '08
IDC says executives should investigate costs at the intersection of marketing and sales to improve on investment returns. The market research firm expects IT marketing and sales investments to increase in 2008 by 4 percent and 7.9 percent respectively.
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