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  • CA’s Cloud Push Continues with 3Tera Buy

    CA is continuing to build up its cloud computing capabilities with the acquisition Feb. 24 of 3Tera. CA officials are looking to roll in 3Tera’s capabilities of building and deploying cloud services with offerings already in CA’s portfolio—including Spectrum Automation Manager and Service Assurance—and technologies gained in acquisitions of Cassatt and NetQoS in 2009 and…

  • SAP Integrates Its On-Demand BI Solutions

    Looking to make business intelligence and analytics more accessible to everyday users, SAP this week rolled out SAP Business Objects BI on Demand, a software-as-a-service amalgam of its existing BI solutions sporting a simplified workflow and tools. The new SaaS offering is targeted at the underserved “casual user,” according to Marge Breya, executive vice president…

  • Tandberg Extends Data Protection Offerings

    Primarily focused on data protection within the SMB market, Tandberg Data has been extending its reach outside its tape roots for the last several years, and is taking a big step forward with its latest products, including its first unified NAS and SAN appliance and new backup and recovery software, says McClain Buggle, Product Director…

  • Winning Over CIOs to Desktop Virtualization

    While desktop virtualization offers the promise of lower costs and simplified management, the technology is still in its early stages of adoption and CIOs may still be resistant. That’s because they perceive plenty of problems with the technology that is such a stretch from the client/server architecture that IT managers work with today, and there…

  • IBM Takes Smarter Buildings To A New Level

    LAS VEGAS:  IBM is announcing a new era of smarter buildings, featuring technology — and associated services — that can save organizations substantial amounts of money, and make the world a little better ecologically. More significantly, IBM’s offerings are not just green vaporware or the domain of large organizations, said Al Zollar, general manager for…

  • Alert Logic Restructures for Better Channel Support

    In a move to drive sales through the channel and build up a more consistent recurring revenue model for its partners, the log management  and IDS company Alert Logic unveiled a joint announcement yesterday that it would be introducing a new program and a new set of cloud-based log management tools designed to be sold…

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