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Red Hat Lands Swedish Windows-to-Linux Contract
Nine times out of 10, Linux migration contracts are about companies switching from Unix to Linux. This one’s the tenth. Red Hat announced on Feb. 6 in Stockholm, Sweden that the Swedish Armed Forces has decided to migrate its servers from Windows NT to RHEL (Red Hat Enterprise Linux). With the deal, FMLOG Servicedesk, the…
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AMD Offers Low-Power Opteron Processors
Advanced Micro Devices, the world’s second-largest maker of PC and server processors, is looking to offer new, lower power-per-watt configurations in its dual-core Opteron server chip line. The Sunnyvale, Calif., chip maker will release the new power-per-watt configurations, along with new pricing, on Feb. 7, company officials said. They said the new thermal envelopes, combined…
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RSA to Partner with McAfee and Privaris, Buy Valyd
RSA does not just host the biggest vendor-driven security event of the year. It also makes news of its own. At its RSA Conference in San Francisco, RSA, the security division of EMC, announced Feb. 7 that it has signed an agreement with McAfee to work together on a security platform that will help its…
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Managed Services on Mobile Devices
Mobile handset users often run into problems with e-mail settings, lose their cell phone or have trouble backing up important information. Users of Samsung mobile handsets may not have to worry about these common problems as InnoPath Software announced Feb. 7 that it has signed an agreement with Samsung to deliver its iMDM (integrated Mobile…
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Datalink-MCSI Consolidation: Sum Could Outweigh the Parts
Datalink acquired fellow storage VAR Midrange Computer Solutions Feb. 1 and overnight became one of the largest vendors of Sun, EMC, IBM and Symantec storage solutions. The purchase, for $14 million ($5 million cash and $9 million in Datalink shares), makes a storage VAR with the potential for $160 million in annual revenue–MCSI’s $47 million…
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Credibility at the Forefront
There’s something different about the security market, and especially the anti-malware market. Most software markets tend to move towards consolidation, but competition is alive and well in anti-malware. Clearly the major players are concerned about Microsoft’s entry into the market with their consumer-oriented OneCare service and the corporate Forefront products. Big players in the corporate…
