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Microsoft Office 365 Debuts With Handful of Hosting Partners
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer announced the software giant’s long-awaited Office 365 cloud-based productivity suite on June 28 along with about 15 hosting partners covering many different geographies around the world. Microsoft showcased Office 365’s identical look in the cloud to on-premise Office applications and documents. The company also highlighted Office 365’s integration with Windows Phone…
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Winchester Systems Releases 3TB FlashDisk RAID Disk Arrays
Data storage solutions provider Winchester Systems announced the release of FlashDisk VX Series RAID disk arrays, which now offer 3TB disk drives. The FlashDisk VX-3400 RAID disk array now stores 336TB in a single RAID set and it fits 772TB into a single 84U data center rack. The disk arrays offer virtualized tiered data storage…
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Users Careless About Security, Ignorant About Malware Threat: Survey
When it comes to enterprise security, user misconceptions of safe online behavior may be the weakest link, according to two recent research studies. Users are in the dark about the "reality" of malware threats, according to G Data Software’s global survey released June 24. The massive survey included responses from nearly 16,000 users worldwide, of…
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Asus, Acer Among Vendors to Release ARM-Based Notebook PCs
Acer, Toshiba and Asus are among the PC vendors that may roll out notebooks powered by ARM processors by the end of the year, according to reports. Quoting industry sources, DigiTimes is reporting that those OEMs, as well as Samsung Electronics, are working on notebooks that would be powered by chips using ARM designs and…
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Big Data Challenge More Than Managing Volumes of Data: Gartner
Many IT leaders are attempting to manage "big data" challenges by focusing on the high volumes of information to the exclusion of the many other dimensions of information management, leaving massive challenges to be addressed later, according to IT research firm Gartner. "Big data" is a popular term used to acknowledge the exponential growth, availability…
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Cyber-Security Breaches Hit 90 Percent of Businesses: Report
A survey of U.S. IT security professionals, conducted by Ponemon Institute and sponsored by Juniper Networks, found the threat from cyber-attacks today is nearing statistical certainty and businesses of every type and size are vulnerable to attacks. Organizations today are experiencing multiple breaches, with more than half (59 percent) of respondents citing two or more…