Recent Articles
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SMB Adoption of Smartphones, Tablets Growing
A survey of small and midsize businesses found owners are accelerating the shift away from desktops and laptops and moving toward the latest technology and gadgets such as smartphones and tablets. The findings were published by Portfolio.com, a business news site for SMB executives and entrepreneurs. Part of a proprietary study conducted by The Business…
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Virtualization Startup Big Switch Networks Lands $13 Million in Funding
Big Switch Networks, a new company building a platform to bring the benefits of virtualization and cloud architecture to enterprise networks, announced April 28 that it secured $13.75 million in a Series A financing, led by Index Ventures and Khosla Ventures. Big Switch Networks also announced that it has joined the newly formed ONF, a…
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Cisco Goes on the Offensive Against Critics, Rivals
Cisco Systems, which has seen its networking business come under increasing pressure in recent months from rivals, such as Hewlett-Packard and Juniper Networks, is hitting back with a marketing campaign that touts its broad product portfolio as significantly better than “good enough.” Cisco kicked off the campaign April 25 with the release of a press…
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VMWare Buys Online Presentation Service SlideRocket
VMware on April 26 acquired a new whiz-bang feature to add to its growing stock of cloud-based products: SlideRocket, an online business-presentation service that competes directly against Microsoft PowerPoint and Adobe PDF. Terms of the transaction to purchase the 25-person, San Francisco-based company were not disclosed by VMware. SlideRocket, founded in 2007, is currently being…
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Polycom Launches Three New Telepresence Solutions
Unified communications specialist Polycom expanded its line of telepresence solutions with three new offerings—the EagleEye Director room camera tracking system, the HDX 4500 executive desktop telepresence system and the mobile telepresence m100 solution. The EagleEye Director and the HDX4500 will be available late April through certified channel partners starting at a list price of $8,499…