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CA, Microsoft Partner on New Cloud Platform
CA Technologies and Microsoft, which have been partners on various products for two decades, revealed May 10 they have signed an agreement to partner on a new cloud platform. Starting in the second half of 2011, CA’s ARCserve SAAS (software-as-a-service) data protection offering will use Microsoft’s Windows Azure cloud platform as its home base. The…
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IT Specialists at Risk Transmitting Unsecure Mobile Data: Report
A study by Origin Storage, a secure storage specialist, has revealed that 41 percent of what should be a security-savvy audience are carrying sensitive information on mobile devices unprotected. In fact, 19 percent revealed that their organization had suffered a data breach following the loss of a portable device (i.e., laptop, USB, CD) with 54…
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EMC Launches PCIe/NAND Flash-Based Serverlike Device
LAS VEGAS—Even though it appears to be only a matter of time before world storage market leader EMC officially enters the server market, Joe Tucci will admit to nothing of the sort at this point. "No, we’re not," EMC’s triple-threat president, CEO and chairman of the board told eWEEK May 9 when asked that question…
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Managed Services, Cloud Driving Job Growth for IT Professionals
U.S. employment numbers released last week from the Department of Labor’s Bureau of Labor Statistics revealed a net gain of 17,800 IT-related jobs in April, representing the 11th consecutive month of positive job growth across four primary IT labor segments in federal employment data. But in a continuing pattern that suggests a significant shift to…
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HP FlexNetwork to Undercut Cisco on Price
HP (NYSE:HPQ) is tying together existing, new and future products into a new networking architecture the company is called FlexNetwork, and pricing it lower than comparable products from Cisco (NASDAQ:CSCO). During the press conference for the launch of FlexNetwork, HP had some tough words for networking giant Cisco, which positioned its own networking architectures recently…