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HP Users Urge Oracle to Continue Intel Itanium Support
Hewlett-Packard’s largest user community is the latest group urging Oracle executives to reconsider their decision to discontinue support for Intel’s Itanium platform. In a statement released April 13, the board of directors of the HP user group Connect said it would continue to support HP and Oracle customers running applications on Itanium-based systems despite Oracle’s…
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Cisco, Verizon Move UC Cloud Service to Beta Testing
Cisco Systems and Verizon in July 2010 kicked off field tests of a hosted unified communications service built around new offerings from Cisco. That partnership evolved further last month, when the two businesses unveiled their Unified Communications and Collaboration as a Service offering during the Enterprise Connect conference. At a recent briefing for analysts and…
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IBM to Offer Business Process Management Consulting Services
LAS VEGAS – IBM announced a new global consulting and services practice to help companies improve the performance of core business processes such as marketing, human resources and finance, as well as industry-specific processes such as insurance claims, campaign management and compliance. Announced at the IBM Impact 2011 conference here, the new IBM Business Process…
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McAfee Enhances Network Security Platform
Security specialist McAfee announced enhancements to its Network Security Platform, including enhanced botnet control through reputation intelligence, virtual network inspection and a traffic analysis port for network monitoring, forensics and other advanced analysis engines. In addition, real-time, reputation-based intelligence through McAfee Global Threat Intelligence provides Network Security Platform users with additional context for enforcing network…
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Small Business, Big Resources: The Power of Community
If you were dropped on an island with 10 other people, which would you consider the best option? Go-it-alone to get shelter and food; or Work with the 10 others for the potential benefit of everyone. Most would consider Option 2 the favorable route. But many in the IT industry continue to follow the less…