Recent Articles
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ICF Makes Internet Safer, Easier for Consumers
Microsoft, Oracle, Novell, PayPal and Google are among the IT industry luminaries that have joined together under the banner of the Information Card Foundation to make the Internet safer, more secure and at the same time more open for users. While the ICF isn’t calling itself a standards body, ICF Chairman Paul Trevithik and ICF…
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Cisco Extends Virtualization Reach
Cisco Systems wants to take the mystery out of virtualization. With virtualization spreading quickly from its roots as a server consolidation play into almost every aspect of IT—from storage to applications to desktops—Cisco is looking to rapidly grow its networking virtualization offerings. At its Cisco Live user conference June 24 in Orlando, Fla., company officials…
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Cisco’s Chambers Touts the Power of Collaboration
ORLANDO, Fla.—Cisco’s John Chambers has a bold vision for how to not only revolutionize IT but to fundamentally upset the way global business gets done. It’s an inspiring message on a number of levels, not the least of which is the fact that the plan won’t work without a great deal of support from a…
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Dell Starts a PartnerStorm
Once a victim of negative publicity in the blogosphere, Dell seems to have digested those lessons and recently has been lauded as a company that effectively leverages Web 2.0 for its own purposes. For example, Dell created a program to reach out to those who were complaining about Dell on blogs and connect them with…
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Rackable to Seed the Cloud
Rackable Systems is providing new ways for enterprises to build out the cloud. The company, which is known for its high-density server and storage products and has been one of the leading advocates for building mobile data center containers, launched five new systems June 23 aimed at businesses looking to build out their computing capacity…
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Symantec Bundles New Data Center Suite
Symantec has bundled a management software package that combines the Big Three requirements of data center management into one product: systems management, endpoint security and backup/recovery. Using in a single management console, Symantec said June 23 that it has packaged Altiris Client Management Suite 6, Symantec Endpoint Protection 11.0, and Backup Exec System Recovery 8 Desktop…