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IBM Announces New Cloud-Based Collaboration Services for Government
IBM has announced new cloud-based collaboration services to help U.S. federal government organizations adopt social computing. The new set of social collaboration services, delivered on IBM’s Federal Information Security Management Act (FISMA)-compliant Federal Community Cloud, addresses the administration’s drive to adopt a "cloud-first" policy which is designed to help the government improve its overall IT…
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F5 Networks Gives Big-IP Security Platform a Makeover
Application Delivery Networking (ADN) specialist F5 Networks announced enhancements to its application and data security solutions, which provide customers with security strategies to prevent loss of service and data. F5’s Big-IP version 11 software–along with Big-IP Application Security Manager, Access Policy Manager Global Traffic Manager (GTM) and Edge Gateway–delivers a unified platform that helps protect…
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Microsoft’s Windows Dominance At Risk
Microsoft s July 21 earnings call revealed one little tidbit that could have executives in Redmond reaching for the anti-anxiety medication: revenue for the company s Windows and Windows Live Division declined 1 percent during the most recent quarter, even as other divisions reported significant growth. It s hard to understate the importance of Windows…
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Apple iPhone 5 Anticipation Growing: Survey
Anticipation in the consumer electronics world is soaring for the launch of Apple’s iPhone 5, which is rumored to be hitting store shelves this fall. PriceGrabber, a part of Experian, released the results of its iPhone 5 survey, revealing that 35 percent of consumers plan to purchase the latest iPhone upon its release. Of these…
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First Church of Christ Scientist Goes Google
When The First Church of Christ, Scientist – a global church and international news organization – wanted to revamp its email systems to contain management costs for its global email network accessed by different types of end-user devices, cloud-based Google Apps seemed like a perfect fit. But the transition from the organization’s legacy on-premise Microsoft…
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Unified Communications: The Untapped Channel Opportunity
When you think of unified communications, it’s hard to imagine anyone not wanting to take advantage of the technology. I mean, unless you’re a Luddite, why would you resist integrating cell and landline phone service with email, video and instant messaging? Think about it: You’re on the road and you want to check on your…