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Array Networks, a specialist in application, desktop and cloud service delivery, announced a partnership with SentryBay to provide SentryBay s EntryProtect anti-spyware capability for Array’s DesktopDirect appliance-based remote desktop access solution. DesktopDirect enables secure access to office PCs or virtual desktops from any device and allows employees to work from any location. With EntryProtect, Array […]

Amazon Web Services has announced AWS GovCloud, a new AWS Region designed to enable U.S. government agencies to move more sensitive workloads into the cloud by addressing their specific regulatory and compliance requirements. Previously, government agencies with data subject to compliance regulations such as the ITAR (International Traffic in Arms Regulations), which governs how organizations […]

Cisco Systems officials in April introduced their Identity Services Engine, designed to help enterprises track visitors coming onto their corporate networks. Cisco s ISE was created to manage not only visitors such as freelancers, customers or contract workers who need access to the corporate network, but also in response to the growing trend of employees […]

Dell is a company in transition during a time of significant economic turmoil, and the results are showing in its financial numbers. Dell executives on Aug. 16 announced a second-quarter profit jump of about 63 percent, to $890 million, up from $545 million during the same period in 2010. That profit growth came on revenues […]

Software bug and security fixes are released all the time from top-tier companies such as Microsoft, Oracle and others, but it’s relatively rare when such a notice emanates from Intel. The world’s largest chipmaker on Aug. 15 wrapped a firmware fix for its solid-state 320 model drives that eradicates a problem involving storage. The affected […]

Sales of Hewlett-Packard’s TouchPad are flagging at Best Buy stores, according to a new report. If accurate, that’s a potential sign of wider trouble for HP’s tablet. “According to one source who’s seen internal HP reports,” read an Aug. 16 piece by Arik Hesseldahl on AllThingsD, “Best Buy has taken delivery of 270,000 TouchPads and […]

Technology VARs are increasingly focused on selling managed services to help small and midsize businesses monitor, manage and maintain their IT networks and equipment. However, according to a study released by CIT Group, a provider of vendor financing solutions, the benefits of offloading IT services — lower costs, increased available resources and reduced IT headcount […]

F5 Networks, which makes application delivery networking products, is buying some assets of bankrupt Crescendo Networks. Financial details of the deal, announced Aug. 15, were not disclosed. The nine-year-old Crescendo currently is in the process of liquidation, and its top engineers in its Israeli headquarters will be moved to F5’s Tel Aviv offices. The deal […]

The issue of price for Intel’s ultrabook concept is being raised again, this time in regard to how much the chip maker is charging OEMs for its processors. According to the Taiwan news site DigiTimes, system makers asked Intel to cut the price of its CPUs by half in hopes of giving them a better […]

Should Google’s acquisition of Motorola Mobility drive Microsoft to buy either Nokia or Research In Motion? That s the question zipping around the blogosphere after Google announced it would snatch up Motorola Mobility for $12.5 billion. The search-engine giant and the handset maker already had something of a tight relationship, as exemplified by the latter’s […]

Microsoft’s ramp-up to Windows 8 is beginning in earnest. In the quarters leading to the release of Windows 7, Microsoft devoted reams of digital ink to discussing not only the features, but also the development philosophy undergirding the operating system. Whether or not that contributed in any meaningful way to Windows 7’s eventual success (pent-up […]

Astute Networks, which specializes in NAND flash-based appliances for virtualized infrastructures, Aug. 15 introduced a network performance accelerator specifically for VMware environments designed to clear out workloads faster via more efficient use of resources. Astute ViSX G3’s first job is to enable efficient adoption of server and desktop virtualization within a network. But it also […]