The New ThinkPad Edge laptop series is aimed at “today’s budget-conscious customers.” ThinkPad Edge models are even being made available in Best Buy stores.

Lenovo adds Intel dual core processor models, upgrading multitouch screen options and battery life in certain laptop and workstation products.

Processors feature chips that integrate graphics and memory controller in the CPU, enabling power reduction, smaller systems, and performance improvements.

The XO Session Initiation Protocol trunking solution from XO Communications has been certified to work with Toshiba’s family of Strata CIX IP business communication systems.

AMD to offer two new SKUs, SP5100R and SP5100R5, incorporating Dot Hill RAIDCore Virtual RAID Adapter technology.

New storage platform is designed to eliminate the risk, cost, and complexity of traditional siloed NAS storage solutions.

With the Own Web Now’s ExchangeDefender addition, Autotask clients can use a single Command Center dashboard to manage and track all network security services.

Dell’s EqualLogic gets some competition in the midmarket as the iSN 1000 integrates Scale Technology’s intelligent clustered storage technology onto the System X server platform.

Company seeks to provide the channel with “a diverse range of deployment needs, ranging to 750 Mbps of Carrier Ethernet for worldwide deployment.”

Firmware adds support for the TRIM command in Windows 7, enabling the OS to “clean” previously deleted or “invalid” data from the drive’s memory cells.