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The networking vendor has been building out its Adaptive Threat Management solution since last summer when it made announcements around high-end routing and switching, but now it’s broadening the solution. While WAN acceleration capabilities have been available for some time, the new WAN acceleration capabilities in the Juniper product are focused around identity- and role-based […]

Dell Inc (NASDAQ:DELL) said demand from businesses large and small is still very weak and the company faces a big challenge long-term in its hardware business, where falling PC prices will pressure margins. Shares of Dell, the No. 2 maker of personal computers, fell 8 percent in morning trade, a day after it forecast lower […]

Six in 10 companies in a survey plan to skip the purchase of Microsoft Corp’s Windows 7 computer operating system, many of them to pinch pennies and others over concern about compatibility with their existing applications. Windows 7 will be released October 22, but has already garnered good reviews, in contrast to its disappointing current […]

IBM and Synnex are ending their distribution agreement in the U.S. for IBM software as of Oct. 1st, 2009, which follows on an announcement last October that had the two companies parting ways over IBM System x products. News of the end of the software distribution agreement between the two companies came after it was […]

(Reuters) – Google Inc Chief Executive Eric Schmidt said there may be announcements later this year about netbook PCs running its new Chrome operating system, as the Internet giant makes its deepest push into Microsoft Corp’s business. Schmidt also said on Thursday that while the worst of the economic downturn has passed, there aren’t any […]

EMC Corp. announced this week that it has stolen rival NetApp’s thunder when it entered into a definitive agreement with Data Domain Inc. to acquire the company in a cash tender offer for $33.50 (US) per share or approximately $2.1 billion. EMC’s all-cash tender offer commenced on June 2 and is scheduled to expire at […]

HP has launched a series of online videos for small businesses that offers information on a variety of things related to their businesses and technology. Being offered through the HP Total Care portfolio, the "Insights from the Experts: Technology Tips for Small Business" video series is a five-part series that features Jim Louderback, CEO of […]

EMC is unifying its IT management software solutions into the new Ionix family to better help its customers accelerate their migration from physical to virtual to– eventually–cloud infrastructures. EMC Ionix is geared towards helping customers accelerate that migration and is the culmination of a five-year company strategy around IT management, said Jon Siegal, director of […]

(Reuters) – Google Inc is planning a direct attack on Microsoft Corp’s core business by taking on the software giant’s globally dominant Windows operating system for personal computers. Google, which already offers a suite of e-mail, Web and other software products that compete with Microsoft, said on Tuesday it would launch a new operating system […]

Symantec Corp. announced its deduplication strategy with plans to deliver on it over the next year as well as several updates and enhancements to its flagship backup and recovery solution NetBackup. With data volumes increasing daily, companies need a better way to balance backup storage costs with business needs for rapid and reliable data recovery. […]

(Reuters) – The U.S. Justice Department has begun looking at big telecom companies such as AT&T Inc and Verizon Communications to try to determine if they have abused their market power, the Wall Street Journal reported in its online edition on Monday. The journal, which cited people familiar with the matter, said the Antitrust Division’s […]

Tone Software Corp., an Anaheim, Calif.-based provider of end-to-end monitoring and management solutions, launched the ReliaTel-Streamline Partner Plus Program, providing managed service providers (MSPs), integrators, value added resellers (VARs) and channel partners with strategic sales, marketing and engineering support, the company says. The program is designed to empower Tone’s ReliaTel-Streamline MSP partners to build managed […]