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Polycom Launches Video Collaboration Platform for SMBs
Unified communications specialist Polycom announced the launch of RealPresence Ready, an open video collaboration platform aimed at small to medium-size businesses. The system includes two HDX 6000 room systems, one HDX 7000 system and five Telepresence m100 software licenses. The solutions are modular so that SMB customers can add components such as Polycom Eagle Eye…
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Seagate Ships New Pulsar Solid-State Drives
Seagate started shipping its new Pulsar solid-state drives — 2.5-inch SSDs the company claims are the fastest it has ever manufactured — July 18 to its channel partners. Seagate said that the 400GB Pulsar XT.2 uses SLC (single-level cell) flash with a native 6Gb/s SAS (serial-attached SCSI) interface. The XT.2 is optimized for mixed workloads…
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Hardware, Software Sales Boost IBM Q2 Profit
IBM continued on its growth course, with hardware and software gains pushing revenue up 12 percent and net income up 8 percent for the second quarter of 2011. IBM reported revenue of $26.7 billion for the quarter, up from $23.7 billion in the same quarter last year. Net income in the latest period rose to…
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Telecommuters Rely on Unified Communications, Lag on Data Backup
According to a recent survey from Staples Advantage, the business-to-business division of Staples Inc., telecommuters say they rely on email (96 percent), instant messaging (68 percent), video conferencing (44 percent) and unified communications technologies (25 percent) to stay connected. While more than two-thirds of telecommuters said they didn’t receive IT security training in preparation for…
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Small Business Optimism Stalls Out
The National Federation of Independent Business’ monthly Small-Business Optimism Index dropped one tenth of a point in June, settling at 90.8, an unsurprising reading, basically unchanged from the previous month and solidly in recession territory. While some indicators rose slightly — including expected capital outlays — pessimism about future business conditions and expected real sales…
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IBM Announces New Cloud-Base Web Analytics and Marketing Suite
IBM has announced a new cloud-based Web analytics and digital marketing suite aimed at helping its business customers automate online marketing campaigns across digital channels, such as Websites, social media networks and mobile phones. The new IBM offering combines software IBM got in its acquisitions of Coremetrics and Unica and provides analytics that help companies…