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IBM`s Palmisano Enlists Partners in ‘Smarter Planet’
IBM CEO Sam Palmisano called on its partners worldwide to participate in the company’s Smarter Planet initiative during the launch of a new Business Partner Leadership Agenda series of online events. Intended as a replacement for this year’s PartnerWorld live events, the new series is part of an overall effort to reach out to channel…
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EMC’s Tucci Takes His Case to Data Domain Employees
In his continued quest to acquire Data Domain, EMC Chairman and CEO Joe Tucci went hard-sell this week to convince Data Domain employees – the vast majority of whom are also shareholders – that they would benefit in far greater ways if purchased by his storage juggernaut versus rival NetApp. In an open letter to…
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Survey: IT Security Breaches More Severe
The severity of security breaches is climbing at a time when IT organizations are under pressure to cut expenses and work with smaller budgets. But the good news is that IT security remains a major priority among IT professionals. A total of 38 percent of U.S.-based IT professionals ranked IT security as their top priority.…
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Lotus Notes versus Microsoft Redux
The biggest battle in the history of the channel harkens back to the way Microsoft essentially destroyed Lotus Development Corp., by first bundling productivity applications together in Microsoft Office and then tightly coupling its Microsoft Outlook client with the Microsoft Exchange messaging platform. The first move essentially eliminated the viability of the Lotus 1-2-3 spreadsheet…
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Adobe Gets Regular on Patching Acrobat, Other Apps
Like Microsoft and Oracle before them, Adobe is getting on the routine patch release schedule. Beginning today, Adobe will begin releasing patches for its widely used document presentation, media and graphics applications, according to the Adobe Product Security Incident Response Team blog. According to the Adobe security blog, the company will release unspecified security patches…
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Palo Alto Networks Unveils New Breed of Firewall Software
The application landscape has changed over the years and yet the firewall hasn’t. With this in mind, Palo Alto Networks is telling customers and channel partners its’ new PAN-OS 3.0 software for its firewalls is designed to supersede the ‘find it and kill it’ model other security technologies are based upon. "Any application can use…