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Data Dedupe Heats Up with Acquisitions Such as Data Domain and Kadena
Data dedupe and backup-and-restore software were put under the spotlight recently when EMC outdueled NetApp to buy Data Domain, shelling out $2.1 billion for a company that was generating less than $300 million in annual sales. The good news for EMC is that Deloitte LLP ranked Data Domain as the seventh fastest growing technology company…
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Illume Capitalizes on Texting and Driving Debate
The political debate over texting while driving is heating up and one software player is positioning itself to take full advantage. Illume Software, maker of mobile safety application iZup, added some big-name political power players to its advisory board this week, including former Senator Tom Daschle and former Nebraska Senator and Governor Bob Kerrey. The…
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Brocade Reinforces Vendor-Neutral Strategy With Oracle
Taking a shot at Cisco’s ‘proprietary’ Unified Computing strategy, Brocade is stressing its open approach with Oracle solutions from hardware OEMs HP, Sun, EMC and NetApp, to be sold through their channels. Brocade is announcing a set of solutions designed to enhance the performance of Oracle database and application suites. The two companies have collaborated…
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Zlago, NMGI Partner to Tackle Accounting Market
At the ConnectWise Partner Summit today, managed service provider Network Management Group Inc. (NMGI) and Zlago, a provider of cloud-based Microsoft applications and services, will announce a strategic partnership to form a master VAR relationship to enable resellers to deliver cloud apps to the accounting market. According to the joint announcement, NMGI will resell Zlago’s…
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Microsoft to Set Up Cloud Research Center in Taiwan
(Reuters) – Microsoft Corp. and Taiwan’s economics ministry said they plan to set up a research center on the island by next year, in the software company’s first Asian foray into the budding cloud computing industry. Cloud computing — the hosting and storage of services and data on remote centralized computers, is expected to cut…
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NetWitness Updates NextGen IT Forensics Platform for Enterprise
The IT forensics gurus at NetWitness Nov. 4 announced a refresh for the company’s NextGen enterprise network forensics and advanced threat intelligence platform, which they say will improve its marketability in the enterprise market and could make it easier for channel partners to compete with a more complete security offering. "What we’ve done with Version…