Recent Articles
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SecurID Breach: Customers Weigh Dumping RSA
As frustration builds from customers fed up with RSA’s handling of the SecurID breach and the deployment costs of replacing ineffective tokens staring them in the face, many formerly loyal to the brand are considering the once unthinkable: casting RSA’s authentication products in favor of mult-factor alternatives. According to the experts, smart channel partners should…
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Toshiba Debuts Satellite, Qosimo Series Laptops
Toshiba’s Digital Products Division (DPD), a division of Toshiba America Information Systems, announced a slew of notebooks aimed at consumers and gaming enthusiasts, including the Satellite P700 series notebooks and the Qosimo X770 and X770 3D notebooks. The Qosmio X770 Series starts at $1,199.99 and will be available later this month at major retailers, e-tailers…
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Review: Samsung Series 5 Chromebook
I’ve been playing with a loaner version of the Samsung Series 5 Chromebook for a week and the 3.3-pound notebook based on Google’s Chrome operating system is everything I expected it to be. That is, a more polished version of the Chrome OS version running on the Cr-48 experimental computer I tested last December packed…
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NetApp Beefs Up Cloud Storage Management
Network storage provider NetApp on June 14 upgraded its OnCommand storage management software, which now includes the capability to automate and analyze shared storage infrastructures. NetApp, like its archrival EMC, comes at cloud management from what it considers the center of the data center universe: storage. Conversely, Cisco Systems comes at cloud-type systems from a…
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Cisco, Polycom Put Focus on Telepresence for SMBs
When Cisco Systems bought telepresence rival Tandberg last year for $3.3 billion, analysts said Cisco would be able to leverage Tandberg’s presence in the midmarket space to expand its video-conferencing offerings into that area. It was a market Cisco needed to access to continue growing its visual-communications business, the analysts said. That push down the…