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Dell has released two new displays that are set to challenge the Surface Hub but there are a few notable differences you should be aware of before purchasing.

Migration of legacy archives like Enterprise Vault are often left as the last part of the journey from on-premises servers to Office 365. A wide range of third-party migration tools are available, but many complex twists and turns await the unwary as they cope with journal reports, archive mailboxes, splitting and explosions, and the sheer amount of data to be migrated. It’s an interesting problem to solve.

PC giant Dell announced this morning that it would acquire storage giant EMC in a deal valued at $67 billion. EMC will merge with Dell, but VMware will not.

Aidan Finn weighs whether Dell is nuts for considering an acquisition of EMC. Would Microsoft own a share of VMware? How can this work?

Aidan Finn gives an overview of Microsoft’s Cloud Platform System, which is the company’s cloud-in-a-rack solution built on Dell hardware.

In today’s The Friday Funny, we explore the relationship between Apple, Microsoft, and the stoner as IT product pitchman.