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Microsoft Calls for Trade Rules Governing Software Services
By Doug Palmer WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Countries need to forge new trade rules governing the movement of electronic data across borders as the world becomes increasingly connected, a Microsoft official said on Wednesday. As more and more software services are provided over the Internet, "people will be calling on computers located around the world," said…
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Oracle’s Ellison Talks Up Sun Acquisition
By Jim Finkle SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Oracle Corp CEO Larry Ellison talked up his company’s prospects after a planned purchase of Sun Microsystems Inc, saying he hopes the deal will help more than double revenue within five years. Ellison, who co-founded the company 32 years ago and built it into the world’s No. 2…
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Take 2: N-Able’s CEO Goes On the Record
Gavin Garbutt talks with Channel Insider Editor Carolyn April at N-Able’s partner conference this, waxing on topics from the managed services market to cloud computing to the company’s latest investments in partner enablement. Click here to view the video.
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RSA and VeriSign Partner on Cloud-Based OTP Service
VeriSign announced that it is teaming up with RSA to offer RSA SecurID hardware tokens as a means of second factor authentication in conjunction with the VeriSign Identity Protection (VIP) Authentication Service. Sold both through VeriSign channel partners and direct, VIP is a cloud-based software-as-a-service (SaaS) solution that offers users managed, shared authentication to access…
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Microsoft/Danger Meltdown Taints Cloud Reliability
Cloud confidence took another blow following the massive storage and backup failure that vaporized the archived email, calendars and phonebooks of hundreds of thousands of T-Mobile Sidekick users. Who’s to blame? Microsoft. Here’s the story as we know it. Microsoft’s Danger unit, a developer of Sidekick apps, provides cloud-based storage and data management services to…