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Verizon Plans Cloud Security Offering
Verizon Business outlined its strategy for pushing its security portfolio into the cloud. The announcement is meant to complement the company’s on-premise MSS (managed security service) offerings, and will be rolled out in phases between June and early next year. “Secure connectivity is the natural entrée into higher-end services of the everything-as-a-service model…CAAS, cloud-based storage…
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Citrix Taps VARs, Microsoft to Beat VMware in Desktop Virtualization Market
SAN FRANCISCO: Citrix is looking to leverage its VARs and its relationship with Microsoft to cash in on one of the hottest emerging IT segments – desktop virtualization. It’s a space that many VARs and CIOs are looking to as a potential money-saver as they look to reduce their administrative and management overhead at the…
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Technology Strategies to Help Enterprises Recover with the Economy
Are you and your enterprise customers ready to take advantage of the economic recovery? Do you have the right strategies in place? A recent report by experts at PricewaterhouseCoopers examined a number of strategies to help companies best position themselves for recuperation while the economy shifts upward in momentum. Several of these strategies have…
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CDC Software Cloud Goes Mobile via Servicepower Partnership
Enterprise application software vendor CDC Software has tapped SaaS-based field service and management provider Servicepower for its new offering, and inked a dual OEM agreement that would provide an expanded mobile and field service market opportunity into both customer bases. As part of the deal, CDC will embed Servicepower’s SaaS solution into its existing eCommerce…
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Ex-President of HP to Head Cisco, EMC Data Center Initiative
Former HP President and Compaq CEO Michael Capellas will lead the Cisco, EMC and VMware effort to change the architecture in data centers with the technology to ease deployment of private clouds. The move comes as the war between Cisco and HP to dominate the evolving virtualized data center has escalated on all fronts. Capellas…
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IBM Rolls Out Cloud IT Certification Program, WebSphere Enhancements
LAS VEGAS—IBM used its Impact event for SOA (solutions-oriented architecture) and BPM (business process management) to roll out more than 30 new products and services to the 6,000 partners that attended the conference here. As more customers and partners look to cloud computing as a potential answer to their IT headaches, IBM has valued the…