Recent Articles
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Two Leading Virtualization Companies Are One
In a memo to their employees, the CEOs of two leading virtualization companies recently revealed that their companies have merged. Specifically, Serguei Beloussov, of SWsoft and Nick Dobrovolskiy of Parallels acknowledged that SWsoft now owns Parallels. According to a source close to the companies, SWsoft bought Parallels “about a year ago—but kept them very separate…
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Across the Country, December’s Job Market Waned
Job availability waned in all of the top U.S. metropolitan markets in December, according to the Monster Local Employment Index, released by the New York-based online job board Jan. 22. Portland, Ore., after four consecutive months, took the biggest hit in December, due predominantly to a loss in white-collar opportunities in IT, engineering and management,…
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Sun, Intel Announce New Partnership
In a collaboration that one CEO called “historic,” Sun Microsystems and Intel jointly announced a new partnership that will see both companies support the other’s technology. The announcement, which had first been reported in the Wall Street Journal and formally detailed at a joint news conference in San Francisco on Jan. 22, will allow Sun…
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Pointsec Launches Expanded Data Encryption Package
Software maker Pointsec Mobile Technologies announced its newest data encryption package Jan. 22, introducing its Protector product line, which promises to help enterprises better safeguard sensitive information and stop content from leaking outside their networks. Officials with Pointsec, based in Chicago, said that Protector expands on the company’s existing endpoint encryption tools in that it…
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Webroot Channel Program a Success
Webroot’s channel program was a key element of the Internet security solution provider’s success in the last quarter of 2006, a period when officials said Webroot saw the largest sales quarter in its roughly 10-year history. Less than a year after the company unveiled its Channel Edge Partner Program—a program that offers partners comprehensive training…
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Botnet Hunters in Closed-Doors Redmond Summit
Faced with arguably its biggest security crisis since the 2003 network worm attacks, Microsoft is throwing its support behind a high-level powwow to discuss the escalating threat from zombie botnets and zero-day malware attacks. The software maker is rolling out the red carpet for the world’s top security research professionals attending a closed-doors workshop at…
