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Ups and Downs of Acquisitions
While it may not feel like it to everyone, the economy is definitely rebounding. Tech vendors, solution providers and managed services are all reporting robust increases in customer interest and sales activities. And, as the latest round of corporate earnings has shown, the tech industry is once again generating healthy profits. Beyond the revenue and…
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Amazon S3 Offers Value Option for Online Backup
Amazon Web Services, perhaps feeling pressure from a spate of competing services from conventional storage companies as well as startups, came out May 19 with what amounts to a price cut option for its Simple Storage Service cloud backup service. Amazon S3 Reduced Redundancy Storage is designed to store noncritical, reproducible data and files at…
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Microsoft, Polycom, HP Team on Unified Communications
Microsoft, Hewlett-Packard and Polycom are among the founding members of an alliance created to push interoperability between unified communications offerings using currently established standards. Other founding members of the UCIF (Unified Communications Interoperability Forum) include Juniper Networks and Logitech, which late last year bought video conferencing vendor LifeSize Communications. >> Click here to read the…
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Hitachi Data Systems Data Center Monitoring Gets Hyper-V, VMware Support
Hitachi Data Systems said May 18 that it is shipping a new version of its data center monitoring software for midsize IT environments, which — thanks largely to widespread use of virtualization — are getting as complicated as large enterprise systems. Hitachi IT Operations Analyzer 2.0 is an all-in-one performance monitor that continually checks the…
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Cisco Acquires Consumer Device Design Firm, Moto
Cisco Systems is continuing its push into the consumer space with the acquisition of Moto Development Group, a privately held company with a history of helping create consumer devices, including Cisco’s Flip video camera. Cisco officials said Moto’s 35-member team will complement Cisco’s own consumer business and enhance its product road map. The consumer space…