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Microsoft Takes Aim at SMBs with Storage Server Refresh
Microsoft and several leading storage hardware vendors are planning advancements for the company’s Windows Storage Server, all in the name of helping small and midsize businesses (SMBs) buttress their infrastructures. Microsoft Corp. is planning to release next week at the Microsoft Tech Ed conference in San Diego the first feature pack for Windows Storage Server,…
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Microsoft Readies New Office Bridging Tool
Microsoft is readying a new tool that is designed to connect Microsoft Office applications to back-end enterprise systems. The tool, called the “Information Bridge Framework,” or IBF, will debut at the company’s Tech Ed 2004 conference in San Diego next week, sources said. IBF is designed to connect Web services to the Office client with…
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Industry: Code Theft’s Real Sting is a Black Eye for Cisco
When hackers allegedly broke into Cisco’s corporate network and stole source code for the company’s IOS router software, some feared that malcontents would soon be able to find and exploit flaws in the code to wreak havoc on the Internet. And certainly, the risk of such an attack still remains. But the biggest damage may…
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Tandberg Acquires Tech for IP Videoconferencing Across Firewalls
Tandberg ASA, an Oslo, Norway-based maker of videoconferencing endpoints and conference bridges, announced this week that it is acquiring Ridgeway Systems & Software, based in Reading, England, for $16 million. Ridgeway Systems & Software Ltd., which had offices in West Long Branch, N.J., and Austin, Texas, before waves of downsizing in 2003, sells servers and…
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TechEd 2004: It’s All About the Service Packs
Integration and security will be the watchwords at Microsoft’s annual Tech Ed 2004 conference, which will kick off Monday in San Diego. The Microsoft brass will be on tap to talk up the benefits of “integrated innovation” (whether or not they actually use the company’s favorite catch phrase). For example, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer as…
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CA Offers White Box Software Program for SMB, SOHO and Home Markets
Computer Associates International Inc. has announced a comprehensive program to enable builders of “white box” PCs, servers and notebooks to deliver added value and differentiate their systems by leveraging CA’s security, storage and PC migration solutions for the SMB, SOHO and home markets. This represents a shift in CA’s white box reseller approach. The company…
