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Vidyo is bringing its video-collaboration technology to the cloud. Vidyo officials on Nov. 8 unveiled the Virtualized VidyoRouter, an all-software version of its Vidyo Router appliance that can be run on virtual machines from the likes of VMware and be deployed in hybrid, private or public clouds, such as Amazon Web Services. The offering greatly […]

Rackspace launched a kit that will make it possible for organizations to launch private clouds based on OpenStack and still receive support from the company. The Rackspace Cloud: Private Edition is a package that businesses can use to set up an OpenStack-based private cloud outside of the Rackspace environment, the hosting provider said Nov. 7. […]

Ultrabooks will account for more than 40 percent of all notebooks by 2015, and will reinvigorate a listless PC market that has been hurt in part by the rise in popularity of tablets, in particular Apple’s popular iPad, according to market research firm IHS iSuppli. In a report Nov. 7, IHS iSuppli analysts said that […]

Panasonic unveiled the Toughpad FZ-A1, a 10-inch tablet and the first in its Toughpad family of Google Android-powered tablets designed for highly mobile outdoor workers in conditions like aviation, construction, field service and public safety. Panasonic said it would add a 7-inch tablet to the Toughpad range in the second half of 2012. The FZ-A1, […]

Palo Alto Networks launched new enterprise-class network-security products to protect branch-office and remote users. The next-generation PA-200 firewall comes in a small form factor and allows enterprises to extend the same level of security for applications, users and content available at headquarters to the branch office, Palo Alto Networks said Nov. 7. Additionally, the WildFire […]

Health care IT has a shortage of perfect candidates, yet government regulations such as the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) Act and Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) are creating an urgency for personnel in health care technology more than ever before. “It’s reached a perfect storm stage and is […]

By 2014, 30 percent of midsize companies will have adopted recovery-in-the-cloud, also known as recovery-as-a-service (RaaS), to support IT operations recovery, up from just over 1 percent today, according to Gartner. RaaS describes the managed replication of virtual machines (VMs) and production data in a service provider’s cloud, together with the means to activate the […]

IBM has made good on its promise to deliver Windows integration with the IBM mainframe via the zEnterprise System. When IBM introduced the zEnterprise in July 2010, the company also announced plans to deliver additional general-purpose blades for the IBM zEnterprise BladeCenter Extension including IBM System x-based blades running Linux in 2011. IBM also suggested […]

Many IT professionals are wondering if the exponential growth of disk storage and the associated management chores will ever slow down. Regrettably, for those charged with the day-to-day administration of enterprise storage, the answer is likely no. Several factors are forcing the growth of storage pools, ranging from basic drivers, such as robust applications, to […]

Unified communications and networking specialist Cisco Systems introduced innovations to the company’s Business Edition 3000 and the Cisco Business Edition 6000 (formerly known as the Unified Communications Manager Business Edition 3000 and 6000, respectively). The Business Edition 3000 server makes available IP telephony for as little as $100 per user for a 100-user organization, while Business […]

Storage specialist Spectra Logic unveiled five products and advancements designed for exascale storage, including a high-capacity storage system, the T-Finity enterprise tape library capable of storing more than 3.6 exabytes of data, as well as performance, reliability and data integrity advancements across its complete line of T-Series tape libraries. A single T-Finity library will now […]

IBM unveiled enhancements to its security services portfolio, promising customers improved data analytics and deeper real-time analysis of security threats. Customers can analyze data from multiple sources across the enterprise and determine how to tweak their security strategies and make sure security and business needs are aligned using new intelligence tools and services, IBM said […]