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Special Delivery: Fast WANs and App Acceleration
Technology executives are centralizing data while their employees are dispersing far and wide. They’re all waiting anxiously for the WAN to deliver hot applications—fast—to mobile workers hankering for performance. Technology managers and vendors are racing to oblige. This perfect storm of needs—including more mobile workers, the Webification of software, speedier networks and office consolidation—is driving…
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Trend Micro Offers Security Appliance to Protect E-Mail Networks
Responding to demand from its customers for more hardware-based systems, Trend Micro introduced its new integrated messaging security appliance on Oct. 9, the final piece of the company’s strategy to build devices to host each of its software products. Dubbed the InterScan Messaging Security Appliance, the device promises to help companies protect their e-mail networks…
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T-Mobile to Announce 3G Service
T-Mobile USA CEO Robert Dotson will announce T-Mobile’s move into 3G service at a press conference in New York on Oct. 6. Dotson will report on the results of the company’s recent spectrum auction win, including substantial space on the 1.7 and 2.1 GHz bands, and the expansion of available spectrum in the company’s 1.9GHz…
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Arrow to Acquire Niche Distributor Alternative Technologies
Arrow Electronics is broadening its solution scope. The distributor announced on Oct. 5 its intention to purchase Alternative Technology, a niche distributor with specialties in infrastructure, networking and security. The acquisition, expected to be fulfilled sometime in November, does little to Arrow’s numbers—Alternative Technology made $330 million in sales in 2005 compared to Arrow’s $11.1…
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Security Vendors Reject Microsoft’s Call for Innovation
Microsoft contends that its partners should embrace the security features being added to its Vista operating system instead of complaining about them, but software makers including Symantec and McAfee said that the company’s mandate for new product innovation only benefits its own interests. At the crux of the dispute is Microsoft’s contention that controversial security…
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Samsung Makes a Play in the Commercial Channel
Samsung has always been known for its high-tech, high-end offerings for the consumer market. That is about to change. The Irvine, Calif., vendor has begun paying closer attention to the commercial channel. At the IT ChannelVision conference in Phoenix, Samsung staked out a prime spot of the showroom floor to show off its latest wares,…
