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Hewlett-Packard announced on Tuesday new blade and rack servers designed to deliver more performance while combining hardware and software capabilities to improve server reliability and lower energy costs. The just-released G7 series of servers includes new processors from Intel and AMD, which help the servers deliver a big performance boost over its predecessors, the company [...]

Acer showed off a prototype tablet device and an e-reader at a press conference in Beijing on Thursday, setting the stage for the company to push into new mobile product segments. President and CEO Gianfranco Lanci unveiled the tablet prototype. It runs Google’s Android operating system, has a 7-inch display and keypad. Acer didn’t reveal [...]

Lenovo is updating its ThinkPad line with a new series of budget laptops designed to help it reach a wider audience of business users. The ThinkPad L series is designed to provide a lower-cost alternative to Lenovo’s standard, higher-priced business laptops, said Rajat Aggarwal, worldwide product marketing manager for Lenovo’s ThinkPad line. [ Looking for [...]

Microsoft is beta testing a PC management service aimed at supporting midsized businesses, the company announced Monday. The service, called Intune, will be available to 1,000 users in the U.S., Canada, Mexico, and Puerto Rico. [ Follow the cloud with InfoWorld's Cloud Computing blog and Cloud Computing Report newsletter. ] The service streamlines administrative functions [...]

Micron Technology will bring faster interfaces to its enterprise SSD (solid-state drive) line in June when it begins shipping its P300 drives to makers of storage equipment. The P300 line will use the SATA 3.0 specification, with throughput as high as 6Gbps, in place of the SATA 2.0 standard that Micron uses on its P200 [...]

Open source enterprise software company Red Hat has updated its virtualization platform, Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization (REV), to include support for desktop virtualization, the company announced Monday. The beta version of REV 2.2 will include a number of new programs that will allows customers to run a virtualized desktop infrastructure (VDI). [ Track the latest [...]

Citrix Systems has launched version 6 of XenApp, its platform for centralized application delivery that features centralized management and access to Windows applications from Android-based smartphones and Apple computers, the company said on Wednesday. XenApp lets users access programs running on a server, and applications can be streamed to the client. It can also be [...]

Lenovo on Tuesday introduced ThinkPad ultraportable laptops, including a tablet, which the company said enterprises prefer over the new breed of keyboardless tablets, which are also called slates. The ThinkPad X201 Tablet has a 12.1-inch screen and runs on Intel Core i7 processors, the company said. The laptop has a traditional convertible tablet design, with [...]