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  • Cisco Acquires Office 365 Collaboration Provider

    Cisco Systems, continuing to look into markets outside the network infrastructure sector that it already leads, Aug. 29 announced that it is acquiring 2-year-old collaboration software maker Versly. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed. San Francisco-based Versly’s speciality is that it brings Microsoft applications into social networking. It integrates employee and supply-chain collaboration within…

  • Amazon’s Anticipated Android Tablet Could Ship 5 Million Units

    Amazon.com (NASDAQ:AMZN) could sell anywhere between 3 million and 5 million Google (NASDAQ:GOOG) Android tablets in the fourth quarter, making it far and away the most successful slate provider on the open-source platform, according to Forrester Research. The e-commerce giant is expected to introduce a tablet based on Google’s Android “Honeycomb” operating system in October.…

  • Out-of-Control IT Projects Can Kill Enterprises

    Major IT projects are 20 times more likely to fail than other business projects, according to a recent study from Oxford University. IT projects on average are 27 percent over budget and take 55 percent longer to complete than originally planned, researchers from the University of Oxford’s Said Business School’s BT Centre for Major Program…

  • EMC Virtual Storage Integrator Supports VMware vCenter

    EMC, a provider of information infrastructure in VMware virtual and cloud environments, introduced the next generation of Virtual Storage Integrator (VSI) 5.0, a free VMware vCenter plug-in designed to enable IT organizations to run their data center operations more simply and efficiently, and to accelerate the move to cloud computing. With this version of VSI,…

  • 10 Reasons to Wait for Sprints iPhone 5

    10 Reasons to Wait for Sprints iPhone 5 1. Another Carrier, Another OptionOne of the nice things about Apple bringing the iPhone to Verizon’s network was that consumers and enterprise users would now have a choice of carrier. Now that Sprint might be joining the fray, they’ll have yet another option. Why buy a device…

  • Salesforce.com Buys SaaS Encryption Provider Navajo Systems

    New encryption technology at Salesforce.com may ease customer concerns about data security in the cloud. The software as a service (SaaS) giant quietly acquired Navajo Systems, an Israeli cloud security encryption vendor earlier this month, Salesforce.com told eWEEK Aug. 26. The company will announce the acquisition and provide more details on its product plans next…

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