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Symantec Unveils Deduplication Strategy
Symantec Corp. announced its deduplication strategy with plans to deliver on it over the next year as well as several updates and enhancements to its flagship backup and recovery solution NetBackup. With data volumes increasing daily, companies need a better way to balance backup storage costs with business needs for rapid and reliable data recovery.…
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NetApp Terminates its Bid for Data Domain
In the end, cash proved a formidable foe. Nearly two months after making a splash with plans to acquire Data Domain, NetApp has terminated the merger agreement, not willing to get into a further bidding battle with storage rival EMC. The final blow? EMC, which has been locked in a bidding tug-of-war to buy the…
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SecureWorks Finalizes Deal to Purchase VeriSign Managed Security Services Business
After a fledgling start in the SMB space 10 years ago, SecureWorks yesterday cemented its standing as a top-flight managed security services provider with its closing on the acquisition of the Managed Security Services division from VeriSign. Announced this May, the deal brings much of VeriSign’s security business under the SecureWorks banner, but not…
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Corporate PC Refresh Cycle Coming Spring 2010
Just when you thought PC sales would never return, there’s a glimmer of hope for a significant PC refresh cycle on the horizon—good news for resellers of Dell, Hewlett-Packard and maybe even Apple. Bernstein Research is now forecasting a return to PC unit growth next year—with growth of 11 percent in 2010, 13 percent in…
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CIO IT Budget Tactics For Recession and Recovery
CIO IT Budget Tactics For Recession and Recovery Plenty has changed over the last nine months – bankrupt auto makers, government bailouts, a financial crisis, a Wall Street meltdown and a deep global recession, for starters. It’s not surprising that CIOs have responded to the changes with some of their own. But just what is…
