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Citrix’s Cloud.com Acquisition Bolsters Its Cloud Development Portfolio
Citrix has finished its acquisition of Cloud.com, a provider of software-infrastructure platforms for cloud providers. Cloud.com’s products include the CloudStack product line, designed for the deployment and management of cloud services. In theory, these assets will give Citrix a boost in its cloud-deployment aims. More than 30 percent of enterprises are deploying at least one…
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Android, iPhone, BlackBerry Lead Smartphone Adoption: Pew Report
A little more than two out of five cell owners (42 percent) owned a smartphone as of May 2011, according to a new study from Pew Research. Since 83 percent of Americans own some kind of mobile phone, this means that 35 percent of all American adults are smartphone owners. In its first standalone measure…
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F5 Networks Debuts ARX File Virtualization Appliances
Application delivery networking specialist F5 Networks announced the release of a hardware platforms for F5 ARX file virtualization solutions. With the introduction of the ARX1500 and ARX2500 appliances, the ARX product line expands to provide small to medium-size businesses with data management capabilities. For medium-sized storage environments, the ARX2500 platform includes support for 10 Gigabit…
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Cisco Enterprise Content Delivery System Enables Video Content Distribution
Communications and networking specialist Cisco announced the Enterprise Content Delivery System (ECDS), a set of video distribution products that provide a way to manage the video load on the wide area network (WAN) and is also designed to help control the cost of extending video applications across the organization. As a key video infrastructure component…
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Businesses Indecisive on Cloud Computing Benefits: Report
Nearly half of small business owners do not believe cloud computing will help reduce their IT costs, according to a June survey of 1,000 independent business owners by Newtek Business Services. Newtek’s Authority Market Sentiment Survey, a monthly window into the concerns of independent business owners, found that educating small independent business owners regarding the…