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Cisco Teams Up With Orange on Cloud-Based Hosted Unified Communications
Cisco Systems is continuing to partner with carriers as officials look to offer the company’s collaboration technology as a hosted service. Three months after announcing a beta program with Verizon, in which the carrier is offering services based on Cisco’s HCS (Hosted Collaboration Suite), the networking giant is rolling out a similar program with Orange…
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Northrop Grumman a Regular Target of Hackers
Organized hackers have been attempting to breach aerospace and defense company Northrop Grumman for years to steal sensitive information, according to a Northrop Grumman senior executive at the Gartner security summit. The APTs (advanced persistent threats) are designed to infiltrate networks at companies and government agencies to steal intellectual property or other sensitive information. As…
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MySQL VMs Get a New Template from Oracle
Preconfiguration, prepackaging and automation of many IT functions are key attributes of the new unified computing systems, and this is a trend that is gaining serious traction on a global scale. Spending hours configuring a server or storage array for a virtualized system is fast becoming drudgery of the past. Oracle made a major contribution…
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Microsoft Office 365 Can Benefit Small Businesses, Channel Partners
With the release of Office 365, Microsoft’s newest cloud service that brings together Office, SharePoint Online, Exchange Online and Lync Online, small businesses have an opportunity to move into the rapidly expanding cloud-computing space with the aim of making collaboration easier and reducing costs. As Microsoft launches its latest media blitz heralding the launch of…
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Cloud Computing Interoperability Presents Greater Challenge to Adoption Than Security: Report
The greatest challenge facing longer-term adoption of cloud computing services is not security, but rather cloud interoperability and data portability, say cloud computing experts from IEEE, a technical professional association. At the same time, IEEE’s experts say cloud providers could reassure customers by improving the tools they offer enterprise customers to give them more control…
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Tablets Hold Promise, Challenges for Channel
With the market for tablet computing devices exploding over the past year, value added resellers (VARs) have many opportunities to tap into the market to supply their customers with these versatile and mobile computers, which offer many advantages over desktop PCs and notebooks. Channel partners should also keep in mind the inherent challenges and limitations…