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  • VMware CTO Highlights vSphere 5 Advantages

    LAS VEGAS — VMware CTO Steve Herrod used his keynote address at VMworld to focus on the newly released flagship vSphere 5 while also showing technologies that leverage VMware s leadership position in data center and desktop virtualization. ” The most exciting thing I have to announce is the largest VM to date,” Herrod told…

  • Widows 8 Ready for Both Tablets and PCs, Microsoft Exec Says

    Ahead of September s BUILD conference, Microsoft is taking steps to position its upcoming Windows 8 as a platform meant equally for tablets and traditional PCs. Even before it began offering sanctioned glimpses of Windows 8 earlier this summer, Microsoft touted the operating system s interoperability with tablets. During this past January’s Consumer Electronics Show…

  • Sony’s First Android Tablet to Ship in September

    Sony says it will ship two Android Honeycomb tablets in the coming weeks: the Sony Tablet S with an innovative fold-over look in September, and the Tablet P with a dual-screen clamshell design by the end of 2011. The 9.4-inch, 1,280×768-pixel touch-screen of the Tablet S (code-named S1) resembles a pad of paper with sheets…

  • HP Strategy Leaves Opening for Apple, Dell: Analysts

    Hewlett-Packard’ s plan to spin off its Personal Systems Group, its PC manufacturing arm, could damage the company s position with small to midsize businesses, according to a pair of analysts. ” Our prognosis is that without PSG, HP’ s value proposition will be much weaker in SMBs,” Sanjeev Aggarwal and Laurie McCabe, analysts with…

  • IT Security Challenged By Hackers, Mobile, Social Media

    Security professionals are most concerned about targeted attacks, external hackers and insider threats, according to a recent report from Symantec. Their jobs are made more challenging by industry trends such as mobile computing, social media and the consumerization of IT, the survey found. Nearly 50 percent of IT security professionals surveyed said external threats pose…

  • Content and Network Security See Strong Growth

    The global content security gateway market continues to gain at a steady clip, growing at more than double the rate of standard network security products according to a new report out by analysts with Infonetics Research. The report found that security gateway appliances and software market sales grew 8 percent in the second quarter of…

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