New Year, New Beginnings for Dell Channel

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Dell’s fourth quarter (November-January) included events such as Dell World where we announced new improvements to the PartnerDirect program, adding $125 million in enhanced incentives and programs, including the Dell Storage Accelerator, Windows Server 2003 Migration, and Growth Accelerators for the Client Solutions and Enterprise Solutions Groups that are all launching this year.

Nathalie Cabrol: How Mars might hold the secret to the origin of life

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While we like to imagine little green men, it’s far more likely that life on other planets will be microbial. Planetary scientist Nathalie Cabrol takes us inside the search for microbes on Mars, a hunt which counterintuitively leads us to the remote lakes of the Andes mountains. This extreme environment — with its thin atmosphere and scorched land — approximates the surface of Mars about 3.5 billion years ago.

IT's cloud security concerns do not correlate to actual failures

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A new report from researcher Ovum and managed service provider FireHost concludes that companies aren't exactly confident in their cloud providers' ability to provide the right level of security.In the survey of IT pros, 92 percent are concerned about the shared cloud infrastructure's security, 92 percent are concerned about a lack of control over where the data resides, and 91 percent are concerned about a lack of visibility into security controls.[ Cloud computing shares resources never shared before, creating new risks and demanding new security practices.

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