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Oracle’s Enterprise Manager 11g Provides Consolidated Management
NEW YORK—Oracle unveiled Oracle Enterprise Manager 11g, a platform that consolidates various systems management and support tools with an integrated interface, during an April 22 presentation at the Guggenheim Museum. “Traditional systems management products don’t address the complexities of modern data centers,” Richard Sarwal, Oracle’s senior vice president of Product Development, said in a statement…
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Amazon.com Goes Indirect, Selling Kindle at Target Stores
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Target Corp will begin selling Amazon.com Inc’s Kindle e-reader this month, the first time Amazon is allowing distribution of its popular product outside its website. Amazon’s dominant ereader is fending off new competition from Apple Inc’s iPad tablet and the Nook from Barnes & Noble Inc. Both of those devices are…
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Juniper Offers Discount to Customers Who Switch
Juniper Networks is offering a switch trade-up program — “Switch To Juniper” — aimed at helping customers move from “legacy suppliers” to Juniper’s EX Series products, with discounts of up to 60 percent on the new switches. Juniper says that now through Sept. 30, eligible businesses in the Americas can purchase new Juniper Ethernet Switches…
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Storage Sprawl a Catalyst for High-Growth Data Deduplication Market
With analysts putting data growth in the range of 50 percent or more per year, storing duplicated data is just adding insult to injury. According to one source, duplication rates run as high as 30 percent or more among companies that don’t have the appropriate policies and tools in place. This might help explain why…
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Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 Released to Manufacturing
Microsoft released the final version of SQL Server 2008 Release 2 (R2) to manufacturing today. According to Microsoft, customers can expect availability in the next few weeks through Microsoft distribution channels. The update features a number of enhancements centered on scalability, analytics, reporting and data management. More than 300,000 users downloaded the database’s technology previews,…