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FFIEC Online Banking Security Guidance a Big Opportunity for Solution Providers
For the first time in over five years the Federal Financial Institutions Examination Council (FFIEC) released a new guidance for online banking security that will likely prod banks and credit unions to improve the way they protect customers from fraud and should have channel partners thinking carefully about who they partner with and how they…
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Dell Enters High-End Networking with Force10 Buy
Dell (NASDAQ:DELL) is making a play for the high-end data center networking market, announcing plans to acquire Force10 technology in a deal that is expected to close by the end of the summer. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. Dell said that it would maintain Force10’s existing channel program as it did with previous…
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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…