Year: 2009
-
Intel Accused of Kickbacks in Antitrust Suit
(Reuters) – Intel Corp was sued by New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo, who accused the world’s largest chipmaker of threatening computer makers and paying billions of dollars in kickbacks to maintain its market dominance. The lawsuit accuses Intel of violating state and federal antitrust law through a "systematic worldwide campaign" of bullying and coercion… Read more
-
Data Dedupe Heats Up with Acquisitions Such as Data Domain and Kadena
Data dedupe and backup-and-restore software were put under the spotlight recently when EMC outdueled NetApp to buy Data Domain, shelling out $2.1 billion for a company that was generating less than $300 million in annual sales. The good news for EMC is that Deloitte LLP ranked Data Domain as the seventh fastest growing technology company… Read more
-
ArcSight Introduces Log Manager with IT Operations and Security Capabilities
Categories: SecuritySecurity information and event management company ArcSight introduced a new log management product this week that it claims will help resellers and other channel partners better sell to both information security and IT operations stakeholders within client companies. The new ArcSight Logger 4 is designed to collect, search and analyze both unstructured and structured data… Read more
-
Illume Capitalizes on Texting and Driving Debate
Categories: News and TrendsThe political debate over texting while driving is heating up and one software player is positioning itself to take full advantage. Illume Software, maker of mobile safety application iZup, added some big-name political power players to its advisory board this week, including former Senator Tom Daschle and former Nebraska Senator and Governor Bob Kerrey. The… Read more
-
Brocade Reinforces Vendor-Neutral Strategy With Oracle
Taking a shot at Cisco’s ‘proprietary’ Unified Computing strategy, Brocade is stressing its open approach with Oracle solutions from hardware OEMs HP, Sun, EMC and NetApp, to be sold through their channels. Brocade is announcing a set of solutions designed to enhance the performance of Oracle database and application suites. The two companies have collaborated… Read more
-
Zlago, NMGI Partner to Tackle Accounting Market
At the ConnectWise Partner Summit today, managed service provider Network Management Group Inc. (NMGI) and Zlago, a provider of cloud-based Microsoft applications and services, will announce a strategic partnership to form a master VAR relationship to enable resellers to deliver cloud apps to the accounting market. According to the joint announcement, NMGI will resell Zlago’s… Read more