Year: 2009
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Physical Security: Beyond Guns, Guards and Gates
Categories: SecurityThe warehouses of broad-line IT distributor Ingram Micro will soon stock fire control systems, automated door locks and products along since servers, switches and storage arrays that make up the core of its portfolio. Ingram Micro announced yesterday that it will now stock physical security technologies, providing solution providers with the products and support to… Read more
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Microsoft to Set Up Cloud Research Center in Taiwan
(Reuters) – Microsoft Corp. and Taiwan’s economics ministry said they plan to set up a research center on the island by next year, in the software company’s first Asian foray into the budding cloud computing industry. Cloud computing — the hosting and storage of services and data on remote centralized computers, is expected to cut… Read more
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DLP Shortcomings Equals Security Services Opportunities
Categories: SecurityJust how good is contemporary data loss prevention (DLP) technology? Can it do more than identify and stop the release of Social Security and credit card numbers? On Friday, I wrote about how DLP “probably” couldn’t have prevented the security breach that resulted in the authorized disclosure of more than two dozen Congressional lawmakers under… Read more
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NetWitness Updates NextGen IT Forensics Platform for Enterprise
The IT forensics gurus at NetWitness Nov. 4 announced a refresh for the company’s NextGen enterprise network forensics and advanced threat intelligence platform, which they say will improve its marketability in the enterprise market and could make it easier for channel partners to compete with a more complete security offering. "What we’ve done with Version… Read more
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HP New Data Center Strategy Strikes Back at Cisco
HP is semi-retiring its Adaptive Infrastructure initiative, unveiled in 2003, and announcing the Converged Infrastructure architecture, claiming it is the only vendor that can provide it, albeit in an open and standards-based approach that will be inclusive of other vendors, and which will have a substantial role for the channel. The announcement follows one by… Read more
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Cisco, EMC, VMware Take Pre-Packaged Data Center Solution Vblock to Channel Partners
Looking to make it easier for channel partners to deploy data center and cloud technology at customer sites, Cisco has formed a coalition with EMC and VMware which will create reference designs for an infrastructure architecture it calls Vblock which incorporates technologies from all three companies including Cisco’s Unified Computing line up of products. The… Read more