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Midmarket Companies Lagging on Mobile Security: Report
Midmarket companies are not doing enough to protect their mobile phones, according to survey results by research firm Canalys. Based on 814 SMB (small and midsize business) respondents, the report indicated that 86 percent of SMBs have not yet adopted mobile phone security throughout their organizations. The research signals an “alarming gap” between the growing…
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VMWare Launches Cloud Control Platform
VMware already supplies the world’s most popular virtualization layer for IT systems. Now the company wants to become your handy-dandy cloud computing operations provider. VMware on March 9 launched a new platform, VMware vCenter Operations, which centralizes and automates administrative control of dynamic virtual and cloud environments. The new package provides visibility throughout a private…
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Dell, Opscode and Rackspace Demo OpenStack Cloud
SANTA CLARA, Calif.–Dell, Opscode and Rackspace on March 9 demonstrated what they described as the first fully automated provisioning of a multinode OpenStack cloud, a new de facto cloud operating system. The demo was staged during an OpenStack gathering at the third annual Cloud Connect conference here at the Santa Clara Convention Center. The demonstration…
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NetApp Acquires LSI’s Large-Scale Storage Business
SANTA CLARA, Calif. — Just as there is a trend toward convergence of functionality in data center systems these days, there is an equal amount of convergence among entire companies in the data-storage sector. NetApp on March 9 joined the ranks of companies adding “big data” storage capabilities when it announced the acquisition of LSI…
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Dell Debuts Desktop Virtualization Offering
Technology giant Dell announced the availability of Dell Desktop Virtualization Solutions, which utilizes prepackaged services with configured and tested hardware and software. DDVS was developed to ease the design and implementation complexities inherent in deploying virtualized desktop environments and accelerate the adoption of desktop virtualization. Dell offers four delivery models designed to address specific customer…