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Businesses Not Keeping Up with New Security Threats: Report
Nearly three-quarters (73 percent) of corporate network devices analyzed by Dimension Data during 2010 were carrying at least one known security vulnerability. This is almost double the 38 percent recorded in 2009. Dimension Data also found that a single higher-risk vulnerability, PSIRT 109444, which was identified by Cisco in September 2009, was discovered in a…
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Citrix Acquires Desktop Virtualization Specialist Kaviza
Citrix Systems announced it has closed its acquisition of Kaviza, maker of the all-in-one “VDI-in-a-Box” solution for small to medium-size businesses (SMBs). The acquisition adds a VDI-only solution to the Citrix portfolio, and the Kaviza VDI-in-a-Box product complements the Citrix XenDesktop product line for enterprise-class desktop virtualization. Customers can continue to purchase VDI-in-a-Box from Kaviza…
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Carriers to Cut Tablet Fees?
(Reuters) – Mobile service providers are reworking charges for wireless connections on tablet computers to lure in customers put off by costly fees. Carriers see tablets like Apple Inc’s iPad as key to revenue growth. But high prices for the devices and more fees on top of phone plans are seen pushing consumers to bypass the cellular…
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Seagate Launches 500GB Wireless iPad Storage Device
With all the iPads and iPad 2’s flying out of Apple stores, many of which holding only relatively small amounts of application and file storage, it would be a welcome thing to have easily accessible additional storage to go with it. After all, iPads and most other tablet devices only carry a limited amount of…
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Rackspace Intros Virtual Desktop Platform
Rackspace Hosting is launching a Rackspace hosted virtual desktop platform, enabling companies to gain the benefits of centralized infrastructure and data but without the capital investment, and enabling resellers to offer virtual desktop solutions to their end-user customers. Rackspace’s Chris Zagorski, director of Enterprise Product Development, told Channel Insider that the adoption of mobile devices…