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Isilon Quarter Profit Jumps
July 22 (Reuters) – Isilon Systems Inc (NASDAQ:ISLN) posted a quarterly profit that was double Wall Street expectations and raised its full-year revenue growth view, sending shares of the data storage firm to a three-year high. For the second quarter, the company posted net income of $2 million, or 3 cents a share, compared with…
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Microsoft, ARM Licensing Agreement Gets Closer
LONDON, July 23 (Reuters) – ARM (ARM) announced a new licensing agreement with Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT), lifting shares in the British chip designer on Friday. The agreement deepens ARM’s 13-year relationship with Microsoft, giving the U.S. group access to ARM architecture instead of licensing products one by one. Microsoft, whose Windows software runs nine in 10…
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Businesses Eager to Join the Cloud, Survey Finds
"The flexibility of cloud computing could help organizations recover from the current global economic downturn, according to 68 percent of IT and businesses decision makers who participated in an annual study commissioned by Savvis," the cloud infrastructure and hosted IT solutions specialist announced July 21. Research company Vanson Bourne "surveyed more than 600 IT and…
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Virtualization Offers Opportunities, Challenges for SMBs, Report Says
IT business and market analytics company AMI-Partners announced the findings of a report July 22 suggesting small and midsize businesses are increasingly turning to virtualization to solve their business challenges, which AMI said posed "serious implications" for the midmarket ecosystem, with effects such as "limiting the growth in shipments of physical IT equipment, especially servers."…
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Google Apps Gets User Policy Management Controls
Following an announcement July 13 regarding the addition of mobile device management options for Google Mobile Apps administrators, including a requirement for devices to use data encryption, search giant Google introduced what it said is "one of the most highly requested features from administrators: user policy management." This means "administrators can segment their users into…