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Microsoft has announced a set of toolkits to further enable developers to build device applications that take advantage of Windows Azure, the Windows Azure Toolkits for Devices. Microsoft announced Windows Azure Toolkits for Devices, consisting of assets for Windows Phone, iOS and a preview of tools for Android. Using the toolkits, developers can use the […]

Cisco Systems officials over the past few months have built out the capabilities of their Borderless Networks initiative in such areas as mobility, security and management. Now the networking giant is looking to extend the reach of the strategy into branch offices. At Interop 2011 this week in Las Vegas, Cisco officials are showing off […]

Data protection and software management provider Symantec on May 11 reported a 9 percent decline in its profits for its fourth-quarter 2011 earnings, but the company still bettered Wall Street analysts’ projections. The Mountain View, Calif.-based company that makes the popular Norton Security Suite cleared $168 million (22 cents per share) for the three-month period […]

Acer Chairman J.T. Wang reportedly is on the verge of deciding whether to buy a software developer that he hopes could increase the appeal of Acer products and boost profits, which last quarter fell to their lowest in more than six years. Wang wouldn’t offer the name of the developer or share financial details about […]

Egnyte, a provider of cloud file-server solutions, and Netgear, a networking company, announced that Netgear ReadyNAS Pro is now shipping with Egnyte preinstalled as a configured add-on. Egnyte is also making it possible for existing users of Netgear ReadyNAS Pro to access Egnyte Office Local Cloud by updating their firmware. First announced in October 2010, […]

Do you feel it? The pressure? VARs and IT solution providers are under increasing pressure from vendor direct sales creeping into hardware, the threat of vendors taking cloud services direct, the after effects of a lengthy recession, not to mention recent pressure on governments to cut all costs and mandating cloud services. The threat of […]

Cloud-based financial and ERP software suite provider NetSuite has announced a partnership with Oracle to put its cloud offerings on Oracle’s Exadata Database Machine. NetSuite said that the high level of database performance Exadata enables will provide NetSuite customers with better performance, plus additional security, fault-tolerance and transaction processing advances, without having to make their […]

Networking solutions provider D-Link broadened its selection of scalable switching solutions for small to medium-size businesses, including the DGS-6604 chassis-based switch and DGS-3620 and DGS-3120 xStack series switches. The switches offer 10-Gigabit Ethernet aggregation, and Power Over Ethernet support, as well as IPv6 support including IPv6 Tunnel, ICMPv6, IPv6 Neighbor Discovery, DHCPv6, RIPng and OSPFv3. […]

McAfee is launching a new security platform designed to protect content and data traffic as businesses and IT departments move from physical to cloud computing infrastructures. These new security tools also come as the IT industry is digesting how secure the cloud after two notable failures at Sony and Amazon. The McAfee Cloud Security Platform […]

CA Technologies and Microsoft, which have been partners on various products for two decades, revealed May 10 they have signed an agreement to partner on a new cloud platform. Starting in the second half of 2011, CA’s ARCserve SAAS (software-as-a-service) data protection offering will use Microsoft’s Windows Azure cloud platform as its home base. The […]

LAS VEGAS—Even though it appears to be only a matter of time before world storage market leader EMC officially enters the server market, Joe Tucci will admit to nothing of the sort at this point. "No, we’re not," EMC’s triple-threat president, CEO and chairman of the board told eWEEK May 9 when asked that question […]

U.S. employment numbers released last week from the Department of Labor’s Bureau of Labor Statistics revealed a net gain of 17,800 IT-related jobs in April, representing the 11th consecutive month of positive job growth across four primary IT labor segments in federal employment data. But in a continuing pattern that suggests a significant shift to […]