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SafeNet has unveiled migration bundles to provide organizations with a full-fledged authentication platform as an alternative to what they currently have deployed. SafeNet’s trusted authentication system is flexible enough to support enterprises regardless of whether they want to deploy hardware or software tokens, smart cards or even mobile devices, the company said April 13. SafeNet […]

5nine Software, a provider of Microsoft Hyper-V management solutions for small to midsize business virtual data center environments and V-Cloud hosting providers, April 13 announced that it has added Easy Monitor for Hyper-V to 5nine Manager for Hyper-V Free Edition and 5nine Manager for Hyper-V. Manager for Hyper-V is designed to provide user-friendly management for […]

At this still-early stage of the cloud IT era, a software vendor coming up with a bulletproof operating system for running public, private or hybrid clouds could find itself in a golden position in the future. Usual-suspect candidates at this point include hypervisor developers VMware, Citrix and Microsoft, as well as systems providers Hewlett-Packard, IBM, […]

(Reuters) – Cisco Systems Inc (NASDAQ:CSCO) will shut down its Flip video camera business in an overhaul of its troubled consumer products business, following chief John Chambers’ recent admission that the company had lost its way. Cisco’s consumer division, in particular, has been a target of criticism by analysts, who have said it strays too […]

Microsoft is unveiling yet another front in its intensive battle for the cloud, with the announcement at its Convergence 2011 conference that the next major releases of the company’s enterprise-resource planning applications will be running on the cloud-based Windows Azure platform. By positioning its Dynamics ERP offerings as a hosted service, Microsoft expands further beyond […]

After more than a year of saber rattling, Intel officials have taken a significant step in their push into the mobile device space and in ramping up the competition with ARM Holdings, whose chip designs are found in most smartphones and tablets. At the Intel Developer Forum in China April 11, Intel officials unveiled its […]

The Acer Iconia Tab A500 tablet can now be preordered at BestBuy.com. An exclusive offering of the big-box retailer, customers will be able to place orders in the store beginning April 14, and the tablet will finally begin selling Easter morning, April 24. The Iconia Tab features a 10.1-inch multitouch screen, a Nvidia Tegra 250 […]

BlackBerry maker Research In Motion took a break from chasing consumer Apple iPhone and iPad sales to do what it does best: Ease the ills of enterprise workers. In its BlackBerry Beta Zone April 8, RIM introduced BlackBerry Mobile Conferencing, a free application that simplifies setting up, accepting and participating in conference calls. BlackBerry Mobile […]

Place yourself, for a moment, in Microsoft’s position. You’re a multibillion-dollar international corporation that made its name (and dominating market share) in desktop operating systems and productivity software. Along the way, you developed a game console that’s managed to hold its own against Sony and Nintendo, along with a variety of other products to multitudinous […]

Each day, a new company is added to the list of clients affected by the massive data breach at email marketing provider Epsilon. Now, several U.S. senators and House representatives are demanding more details about the magnitude of the breach and how the email thefts are impacting consumers.  U.S. Sen. Richard Blumenthal of Connecticut wrote […]

(Reuters) – Apple’s iPad will continue to dominate the surging media tablet market for years, with Google playing catch-up, research firm Gartner said on Monday. Gartner said it expects 70 million media tablets to be sold this year and 108 million in 2012, compared with just 17.6 million in 2010. Apple’s share of the market […]

International energy management giant Schneider Electric, which supplies power-control products and services for thousands of IT systems, on April 5 acquired Lee Technologies, a services bureau for North American data centers. Financial details of the transaction were not disclosed. Lee Technologies, based in Fairfax, Va., specializes in 24/7-type data center services, such as remote monitoring […]