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Thank You, Steve Jobs
It wasn’t John Lennon or Michael Jackson they were remembering on TV this morning. It wasn’t John F. Kennedy, Ronald Reagan or Princess Diana. No, this time the lost icon was none other than Steve Jobs, the co-founder of Apple who in his lifetime achieved the kind of status that only a handful of humans…
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IBM, McAfee Beef Up Security Portfolios
This week saw another milestone in the consolidation of the security information and event management (SIEM) market with the acquisition of not one but two major players. On Tuesday, IBM announced that it would buy Waltham, Mass.-based Q1 Labs and McAfee made a similar announcement of its own acquisition of Portsmouth, NH-based Nitro Security. According…
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Google Relies on Partners for Cloud Transformation
Google is doubling down on its channel strategy with its recent unveiling of its Cloud Transformation Program, in which the company is using partners to deliver value-added services built around Google’s cloud portfolio. The program will start out with six select partners participating, but Google intimates that it will expand to more as it gains…
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IT as a Service Becoming Commonplace: Survey
A survey by F5 Networks found that at least 67 percent of enterprises have implemented or are in the process of implementing infrastructure as a service and platform as a service, and that 15 percent of enterprises have implemented or are in the process of implementing chargeback capabilities, setting the stage for full-scale ITaaS across…
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The Wisdom of Steve Jobs
The Wisdom of Steve Jobs We’re gambling on our vision, and we would rather do that than make "me too" products. Let some other companies do that. For us, it’s always the next dream.Interview about the release of the MacIntosh in 1984 No Title Do you want to spend the rest of your life selling…
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Businesses Looking to VARs to Allay Cloud Security Concerns
According to a survey by security and storage specialist Symantec, businesses have mixed feelings when it comes to security–with a majority ranking it as both a top concern and top goal of moving to the cloud. Symantec’s 2011 State of Cloud Survey examined how organizations are adopting cloud computing and dealing with the changes it…
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