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Platform Computing to Ease Grid Deployment
Platform Computing is looking to make it easier for businesses to create a high-performance computing cluster by offering an integrated reference software stack that can be quickly deployed and easily managed. Platform is demonstrating its Open Cluster Stack, or OCS, at the Intel Developer Forum in San Francisco. The Platform OCS, which is running on…
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Perimeter CEO: Security on Demand Is On
Persuading IT buyers to invest in security is no easy task because unlike other technologies, it doesn’t help companies cut costs or boost revenue. If anything, IT buyers tend to look at security equipment and software as expenditures and nothing more. This is why offering network protection as an on-demand service makes sense, and it…
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IBM Opens Innovations Centers to VC-Backed Startups
IBM is hoping to drive more innovation out of partners by throwing more resources at the ISVs that venture capital firms say are promising. IBM will provide venture capital firms and the ISVs they back with added technical, sales and marketing support delivered at its 32 Innovation Centers worldwide to speed solutions to market and…
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Tech Data Launches Client Computing Business Unit
Tech Data has launched a new unit that the distributor says will help its VARs develop new systems market solutions for small and midsize businesses. The new unit, called Client Computing, will fall under Tech Data’s Systems Division. The new unit will combine new and existing resources from the company, a Tech Data spokesperson said.…
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Cisco Ties Video Streaming to the Network
Cisco Systems will bring its heft and credibility to the video streaming and video-on-demand market on Sept. 26 when it launches its digital media system. The new system, which includes a line of digital media encoders, a digital media manager and a video portal, is the first fully integrated offering from a well-known brand in…
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Greenspan: Dump SarbOx
BOSTON—The Sarbanes-Oxley Act is doing more harm than good and must be overhauled, Alan Greenspan told a technology audience here. “One good thing: Sarbox requires the CEO to certify the financial statement. That’s new and that’s helpful. Having said that, the rest we could do without. Section 404 is a nightmare.” Greenspan’s remarks came at…
