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Verizon Plans Cloud Security Offering
Verizon Business outlined its strategy for pushing its security portfolio into the cloud. The announcement is meant to complement the company’s on-premise MSS (managed security service) offerings, and will be rolled out in phases between June and early next year. “Secure connectivity is the natural entrée into higher-end services of the everything-as-a-service model…CAAS, cloud-based storage…
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EMC’s DD Boost Provides Distributed Deduplication
EMC execs must love the month of May, when the company can host and feed scores of partners and customers, do some razzle-dazzling of potential buyers, and share news of new products and services at its EMC World conference. Usually, the event is staged in a resort-like place like Orlando, Fla. This year, the world’s…
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Software Piracy Rises in 2009, Costing Industry $51 Billion
The software piracy rate inched up globally last year, costing the IT industry billions of dollars, according to the seventh annual Business Software Alliance/IDC Global Software Piracy Study. The piracy rate is the percentage of software installed on PCs in a given year that is unlicensed. In 2009, that rate increased two percentage points to…
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Lenovo’s IdeaPad, IdeaCentre Get Newest AMD, Intel Chips
Lenovo has introduced a number of new PCs in multiple form factors, including notebooks, all-in-one PCs, a net top and slim desktop towers. Geared toward consumers, the PCs run Microsoft Windows 7 and feature processor and graphics options from Advanced Micro Devices, Nvidia and Intel. The newest members of the Lenovo IdeaPad Z series are…
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Developers Unhappy With Their App Store Cut
In a recent Evans Data study, a large majority of surveyed developers said they are dissatisfied with the 30/70 split they get from developing applications for popular app stores. In its Spring North American Development Survey, Evans Data found that 80 percent of surveyed developers in North America said they think they should receive more…
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SAP’s Sybase Acquisition Brings ERP to Smartphones
Enterprise software giant SAP (NYSE:SAP), which has struggled over the course of the recession, is beefing up its competitive portfolio against rival Oracle, announcing it will acquire Oracle competitor and database vendor Sybase (NYSE:SY) in a deal valued at about $5.8 billion. But it’s not just about competing with Oracle. It’s also about capturing the…