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Schneider Electric Buys Data Center Services Firm Lee Technologies
International energy management giant Schneider Electric, which supplies power-control products and services for thousands of IT systems, on April 5 acquired Lee Technologies, a services bureau for North American data centers. Financial details of the transaction were not disclosed. Lee Technologies, based in Fairfax, Va., specializes in 24/7-type data center services, such as remote monitoring…
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Dell Makes $1 Billion Investment in Cloud, Virtualization Infrastructure
Dell is investing $1 billion in its current fiscal year in new data centers, solution facilities and technologies designed to broaden its capabilities in such areas as cloud computing, virtualization and converged infrastructure. Dell’s strategy, announced April 7, includes building 10 new data centers over the next two years—which will be spread out around the…
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Facebook Launches Open Compute Project
Facebook April 7 launched its Open Compute Project, an unprecedented play to open source the specifications it employs for its hardware and data center to efficiently power a social network comprising 600 million-plus people. For the Open Compute Project, Facebook is publishing specs and mechanical designs used to construct its motherboards, power supply, server chassis,…
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Cisco CEO Chambers Says Tough Decisions Ahead
NEW YORK/SAN FRANCISCO, April 7 (Reuters) – Cisco Inc (NASDAQ:CSCO) Chief Executive John Chambers, days after admitting that the company he has led for 16 years had lost its way, warned of competitive pressures, depressed public sector spending and "tough decisions" that lay ahead. Chambers told analysts and investors at a Wells Fargo technology conference…
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Novell Announces Mono Development Tool for Android
Novell has announced the availability of Mono for Android, the first solution for developing Microsoft .NET applications for the Android platform using Microsoft’s Visual Studio tool set. With the addition of Mono for Android to its existing Mono development tools, Novell is enabling Microsoft .NET and C# developers using Visual Studio and other environments to…
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Banks Don’t Protect SMBs From Fraud: Report
Small and midsized businesses are more susceptible to online-banking fraud, compared with larger businesses and enterprises, according to a new security report from the Ponemon Institute. What’s worse is that many financial institutions are not doing enough to protect smaller businesses from cyber-crooks. Over half, or 56 percent, of the surveyed companies reported experiencing some…