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Cisco Fires Back at HP, Talks Business Transformation
Even as HP was turning up the heat on Cisco Systems at its partner summit in Las Vegas, held April 26 to 28, Cisco was also acknowledging a new era of intense competition between the two companies during its own partner conference in San Francisco, held the same week. "We know you had a choice…
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LifeSize Offers Disruptive Price on Video Broadcast Services
LifeSize, the value-based video conferencing telepresence upstart, is now offering a streaming video system for broadcast-like streaming capabilities but without the cost of installing a whole video studio. The system requires a LifeSize end point system be used to create the video, enabling the encoding to be performed at that client, leaving the server appliance…
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Virtualization Rises as the Star of Networking Event
More than 80 percent of the products and solutions unveiled at this year’s Interop networking trade show are related to virtualization, representing a seismic shift in the culture and future of a technology space that has been dominated by switches, routers, and, well, networking technology. Today it’s about the data center. The three C’s of…
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Choosing Between Cisco and HP IT Certifications
As the Cisco Systems and HP partner conferences are about to butt heads, both scheduled for the same week of April 26, it’s almost as if the two companies are forcing channel partners to choose one or the other. Case in point, HP has fired its latest shot against long-term rival and once-partner, Cisco, announcing…
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Juniper Offers Discount to Customers Who Switch
Juniper Networks is offering a switch trade-up program — “Switch To Juniper” — aimed at helping customers move from “legacy suppliers” to Juniper’s EX Series products, with discounts of up to 60 percent on the new switches. Juniper says that now through Sept. 30, eligible businesses in the Americas can purchase new Juniper Ethernet Switches…
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Symantec: Fake Security Software Still Top Problem
(Reuters) – Fake security software was the No. 1 cybersecurity woe afflicting computer users in 2009, and Apple users lost some of their immunity to cybercrime as they stored more data online instead of on hard drives, according to the cybersecurity firm Symantec. In a report released on Tuesday, Symantec noted that Brazil had risen…