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Qwest Joins Hosted UC Platform Purveyors
Qwest Communications is the latest company to offer a hosted UC (unified communications) platform. Qwest on April 7 unveiled its iQ HUCS (Hosted Unified Communications Service) to help businesses bring together the various pieces of their communications infrastructure—from voice and video to email, instant messaging and presence—under a single, hosted umbrella. UC offers businesses the…
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Lenovo to Unveil Netbook, All-In-One This Month
Lenovo introduced two new consumer PCs on April 7, the IdeaPad S10-3s netbook and the C200 all-in-one desktop, designed with families in mind. The 2.43-pound IdeaPad features a 10.1-inch display, a chiclet-style keyboard that’s 98 percent of a full-size one, an Intel Atom N470 processor and a choice of Microsoft Windows 7 operating systems. >>…
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NetApp Acquires High-End Storage Vendor Bycast
NetApp revealed April 7 that it will acquire Bycast, a privately held storage software maker, in an all-cash transaction. Other details of the deal were not made available. Bycast, based in Vancouver, B.C., develops object-based storage software that manages petabyte-scale, globally distributed repositories of images, video and records for enterprises. >> Click here to read…
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Adobe Strikes Back on PDF Security Issue
Adobe Systems is recommending that concerned users reconfigure the settings in Adobe Reader to thwart an attack that allows embedded executables in PDF files to launch. >> Click here to read the rest of the story at eWEEK.com
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Dataguise Goes After Federal Market
The data discovery and data masking company Dataguise is heating up its federal focus with an announcement this week of a new vice president of federal sales that the company hopes will improve its position within the government sector. With more than 30 years of IT sales and senior management experience, Joe Marino has spent…
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Midmarket CFOs Lack Business Intelligence Tools to Do Their Jobs
As a direct result of the economic crisis of the last 18 months, chief financial officers at midmarket organizations have greater clout and decision-making power than ever before, and yet a dispiriting majority of them say they lack insight and access to the data they need to be effective. That’s the key finding of a…