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  • IBM Introduces SmartCloud for Social Collaboration for Government

    IBM has announced new services converging social networking and cloud computing for the federal government. At a recent FedTalks event in Washington, D.C., IBM introduced its new offering known as SmartCloud for Social Collaboration for Government. Initially previewed in July, this new offering is a cloud-based service that combines social collaboration tools and email to…

  • DataDirect Networks Introduces WOS 2.0 Storage Appliance

    Information storage company DataDirect Networks unveiled the next generation of its Web Object Scaler system, WOS 2.0. With this release, DDN introduced accessibility and data protection features to complement an appliance built on a cloud storage system, which the company said is capable of scalable performance 70 percent faster than Amazon S3 and more than…

  • RIM Gives Away BlackBerry Apps in Outage Mea Culpa

    Research In Motion has decided that a few free apps will ease customer pain over widespread BlackBerry outages last week. RIM claimed in an Oct. 17 statement that the apps would be available over the coming weeks on BlackBerry App World. The 12 apps listed so far include games such as Sims 3 and N.O.V.A.,…

  • Dell Expands Data Protection Encryption Portfolio

    Dell launched "phase 2" of its Dell Data Protection Encryption portfolio to provide organizations with a "new level of security" to secure data stored on a wide variety of endpoints.   Dell announced "simple, comprehensive and flexible encryption" features to expand its data protection and encryption portfolio Oct. 12 at its DellWorld conference in Austin,…

  • Data Center Hardware Spending to Hit $99 Billion in 2011: Gartner

    Worldwide data center hardware spending is projected to reach $98.9 billion in 2011, up 12.7 percent from 2010 spending of $87.8 billion, according to IT research firm Gartner. Data center hardware spending is forecast to total $106.4 billion in 2012 and surpass $126.2 billion in 2015. Gartner identifies data center hardware spending as including servers,…

  • MSP Acquisitions: Advice for a Red Hot Market

    How hot is the managed services mergers and acquisitions market? So hot that remote management and monitoring platform provider N-able offered three different panel discussions on the topic during its annual partner summit in Scottsdale, Ariz. last week "M&A has never been hotter than right now," N-able Vice President of Sales Michael Cullen told Channel…

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