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Salesforce’s Force.com Gives ISVs Entry to Cloud
About two years ago, Salesforce.com introduced its Force.com offering, through which the software-as-a-service giant invited developers to create cloud-based applications that would run on Salesforce.com’s own infrastructure. I must say that when I first heard about Salesforce.com’s efforts to allow development for the cloud through its own Force.com site, I was a bit skeptical about…
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New Diskeeper Tool Saves Time, Money for VARs
In the life of a Windows machine, nothing is certain but malware sweeps and disk defragmentation. Both chores are deployed regularly in hopes of holding off bit rot, and each has a knack for sucking up resources and generally getting in everyone’s way-despite ongoing vendor efforts to tuck these tasks into the background. I suspect…
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Lenovo’s New Midrange Server Goes Green
Lenovo’s rack-mount ThinkServer RD210 adds Intel “Nehalem” Xeon processors and management tools to a workhorse data center server to make it an able competitor in the tightly competitive 1U arena. The two-socket ThinkServer RD210, which began shipping in May 2009, joins a crowded field of general-purpose servers that have been revamped to take advantage of…
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Microsoft Forefront UAG 2010 Alleviates Direct Access Headache
Microsoft’s Forefront Unified Access Gateway 2010 addresses many of the shortcomings of the company’s new always-on remote connectivity solution, DirectAccess, providing sorely needed measures of performance and availability scaling, global management, and backward compatibility to help move DirectAccess beyond mere pilot projects to actual deployment on real networks. While Forefront UAG 2010 has its own…
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Virus Breach Thousands of Computers Globally
(Reuters) – A new type of computer virus is known to have breached almost 75,000 computers in 2,500 organizations around the world, including user accounts of popular social network websites, according Internet security firm NetWitness. The latest virus — known as "Kneber botnet" — gathers login credentials to online financial systems, social networking sites and…
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Channel Gets Rebate on Brocade 10 Gigabit Ethernet Switch
Looking to capitalize on the growth of server virtualization and infrastructure consolidation, Brocade has unveiled its Brocade FCX series of 10/100/1000M bps with 10 Gigabit Ethernet (10 GbE) uplink top-of-rack switches. The lineup offers price/performance value starting at $4,945 and available starting in April to help customers both reduce overhead costs and scale their networking…