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Microsoft’s Turn in the Indemnification Mill
Microsoft has been beating the drum for quite a while now about how much safer its intellectual property foundation is compared with scary, scary Linux. Oh, please. Even Open Source Risk Management‘s Dan Ravicher, the guy who wrote up the Linux patent study showing that Linux “potentially” violated 283 software patents, thinks “Microsoft is up…
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CA Releases End-to-End Data Protection for SMBs
Offering security, simplicity and ease, Computer Associates has expanded the release of five Protection Suites aimed at small and midsize businesses. The goal, according to David Luft, senior vice president of SMB product development at Computer Associates International Inc. of Islandia, N.Y., is to provide an easy-to-use, all-in-one solution that addresses the security, storage and…
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Accenture Picks Up Japanese Outsourcing Deal
Accenture on Tuesday inked a seven-year outsourcing contract with Elpida Memory, a Japanese supplier of dynamic random access memory. Under the pact, Accenture will take over the operation of Elpida Memory Inc.’s systems that handle finance, procurement, customer relations and knowledge management. Elpida’s goal is to improve the cost-efficiency of its information technology and boost…
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Distributor Avnet Launches IBM Blade Initiative
Distributor Avnet Partner Solutions this week launched a blade server initiative with an eye to boosting sales of IBM blades to the upper end of the small and midsized business market. Avnet’s blade program, called BladeCentral for IBM, is designed to give VARs and integrators a quick entrée into a fast-growing market. Included in the…
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Use What You Sell
About 10 years or so ago, IBM executives started repeating the phrase, “Use what you sell.” The idea, of course, was to project the notion that IBM wasn’t just foisting its technology on other businesses—Big Blue was an active user too. Some industry wags came up with a more vivid (and less appetizing) metaphor to…
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NetEx Recruits VARs for Data Acceleration Technology
Earlier this month, the mammoth financial services company Citigroup had to make the embarrassing admission it was missing a backup tape with confidential records of almost 4 million people. The tape, containing Social Security numbers and customer transaction histories, seems to have disappeared from a UPS truck on May 2, according to Citigroup. Proponents of…
