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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…
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Technology Giants HP, IBM Retool Channel Programs in Midmarket Push
As if HP doesn’t have enough on its plate with its escalating war with Cisco (data center), and the multi-billion-dollar 3Com (networking) and Palm (mobility) acquisitions, the company has decided to tackle the $7.5 billion midsize enterprise market . The world’s largest IT vendor is announcing the HP ten.to.one (10,000-1,000 employees) initiative that includes new…
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Dice: Full-Time IT Job Listings Jump as Headhunters Circle
Looking for a full-time IT job? Dice reports a full-time hiring revival is under way, with the number of job postings jumping 20 percent month over month while contract position listings remained flat. Dice reports full-time openings totaled 43,198; part time totaled 1,241; and contract openings totaled 29,801. Click here for Channel Insider’s list of…