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Revenue Up, Profit Down at Symantec
Data protection and software management provider Symantec on May 11 reported a 9 percent decline in its profits for its fourth-quarter 2011 earnings, but the company still bettered Wall Street analysts’ projections. The Mountain View, Calif.-based company that makes the popular Norton Security Suite cleared $168 million (22 cents per share) for the three-month period…
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Acer Looking to Tablets, Software to Boost Sales
Acer Chairman J.T. Wang reportedly is on the verge of deciding whether to buy a software developer that he hopes could increase the appeal of Acer products and boost profits, which last quarter fell to their lowest in more than six years. Wang wouldn’t offer the name of the developer or share financial details about…
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Netgear, Egnyte Release Hybrid Cloud Storage Platform
Egnyte, a provider of cloud file-server solutions, and Netgear, a networking company, announced that Netgear ReadyNAS Pro is now shipping with Egnyte preinstalled as a configured add-on. Egnyte is also making it possible for existing users of Netgear ReadyNAS Pro to access Egnyte Office Local Cloud by updating their firmware. First announced in October 2010,…
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The Right Way to Get Found By Customers Who Search
Do you feel it? The pressure? VARs and IT solution providers are under increasing pressure from vendor direct sales creeping into hardware, the threat of vendors taking cloud services direct, the after effects of a lengthy recession, not to mention recent pressure on governments to cut all costs and mandating cloud services. The threat of…
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Apple iPad Not Weakening PC Sales: NPD Report
The consumer PC market isn’t floundering because of Apple’s iPad tablet, and the rate of cannibalization is actually declining among more recent purchasers, according to market research company The NPD Group’s “Apple iPad Owner Study II” report. According to the report, only 14 percent of early iPad adopters (iPad owners of six months or more)…
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NetSuite to Use Oracle Exadata for Cloud
Cloud-based financial and ERP software suite provider NetSuite has announced a partnership with Oracle to put its cloud offerings on Oracle’s Exadata Database Machine. NetSuite said that the high level of database performance Exadata enables will provide NetSuite customers with better performance, plus additional security, fault-tolerance and transaction processing advances, without having to make their…