Year: 2006

  • Cisco Lets VARs Approve Leasing Options for Customers

    Cisco Lets VARs Approve Leasing Options for Customers

    Scott Ferguson

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    Cisco Systems Capital, the financial subsidiary of Cisco Systems, announced Oct.16 that it would begin allowing VARs to approve up to $50,000 in leasing credit for their customers. The new leasing program is aimed at SMBs (small and midsize businesses) and gives cash-conscious companies the opportunity buy Cisco products with fewer upfront costs, said Maryann… Read more

  • Survey: Hacker Attacks Scariest Threat of All

    Survey: Hacker Attacks Scariest Threat of All

    Deborah Rothberg

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    In a survey of IT security professionals attending the RSA Conference, one-third of respondents cited uncovering identity management as their biggest organizational concern. While 29 percent of respondents ranked e-mail viruses as their most significant threat, 68 percent listed Web viruses, suggesting that Web viruses pose more of a threat than e-mail-born ones. Paul Davis,… Read more

  • IBM Births New Server Type

    IBM Births New Server Type

    Lisa Vaas

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    IBM on Oct. 16 announced a new species of server: the IBM Information Server. The new server is all about grafting formally siloed information-handling products such as data cleansing and profiling platforms into one product with a common interface. IBM unveiled the Information Server at its first Information on Demand Global Conference in Anaheim, Calif.… Read more

  • Calence to Acquire Global Data Systems, Texas Presence

    Calence to Acquire Global Data Systems, Texas Presence

    John Hazard

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    Calence, which is fast becoming one of the nation’s largest service providers, agreed on Oct. 16 to acquire the Texas operations of Global Data Systems, a nationwide VAR. The acquisition increases Calence’s presence in the education and public sector spaces and several key Texas markets—Austin, Corpus Christi, Dallas, Houston, Laredo, McAllen, San Angelo and San… Read more

  • Oracle Updates Enterprise Manager 10g’s ALM

    Oracle Updates Enterprise Manager 10g’s ALM

    Scott Ferguson

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    Oracle announced Oct. 16 that it’s tweaking Enterprise Manager 10g’s application lifecycle management so as to allow IT professionals to monitor the entire database and pinpoint specific changes in the database environment, approve changes, and take “snapshots” of the environment. Oracle’s achieving this by deploying service-level management, application performance management, configuration management and change automation,… Read more

  • Circuit City Parts Ways with Its CIO

    Circuit City Parts Ways with Its CIO

    Evan Schuman

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    One of retail’s most important IT executives—Circuit City CIO Mike Jones—has left the $11.6 billion chain, with the chief IT job going to his VP of business applications. Jones had a creative and visionary perspective for the chain and a company statement left unclear the circumstances of his departure, although the phrase “to pursue other… Read more