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Google Apps Sweetheart Serena Software Switches Back to Microsoft BPOS
Just a little more than a year after touting its move from Microsoft Exchange to Google Gmail, Serena Software has decided to make the switch back to Microsoft and dump its Google Apps support. Unlike the University of California, Davis, which dumped Gmail over security and privacy concerns earlier this month, Serena’s reason was much…
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NAS Storage Tower from Sans Digital Sports Intel Atom Processor
Sans Digital, a provider of storage subsystems, announced the launch of MobileNAS MN4LA+B, a 4-bay iSCSI and network attached storage unified storage tower utilizing Intel Atom-based Dual Core D510 CPUs with dual Gigabit Ethernet ports. Based on the existing EliteNAS and MobileNAS series that range from 1U 4-bay to 8U 50-bay rackmounts, the MN4LA+B provides…
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Oracle’s MySQL Enterprise Gets Upgrade
Oracle issued on May 17 a new edition of MySQL Enterprise, the first major upgrade of the open-source relational database since Oracle completed the acquisition of MySQL’s former parent, Sun Microsystems. But the release will do little to assuage the suspicions of MySQL users and open-source community members that Oracle won’t give the database full…
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Microsoft Dumps VOIP Response Point Product
Microsoft has made what it called the “tough decision” to terminate its Response Point phone system software, which used voice over IP to save small and midsize businesses money on their communications bills. Although Microsoft marketed the product as an ideal way for businesses of up to 50 employees to cut costs in a moribund…
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Gartner: IT Spending Headed to $2 Trillion This Year
The banking and financial industries, along with health care providers and large government agencies, are helping to push IT spending past the $2 trillion market this year, according to research firm Gartner. For 2010, Garter is predicting that IT spending will total $2.4 trillion, a 4.1 percent increase from 2009, when enterprises and small businesses…
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HP: Web-Enabled Printers to Get Palm webOS
Hewlett-Packard has plans for Palm’s webOS mobile operating system that go well beyond smartphones and tablet PCs, such as Web-connected printers. During a conference call with analysts and reporters to announce fiscal second-quarter 2010 results May 18, HP President and CEO Mark Hurd said that while he certainly wants to grow Palm’s smartphone business, the…