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Yahoo CEO says Talking to Microsoft a ‘Little Bit’
(Reuters) – Yahoo Inc CEO Carol Bartz said any deal to spin off or combine its Internet search assets will require a partner with "boatloads of money," and her company is talking "a little bit" with Microsoft Corp. about a potential partnership. Speaking at the All Things Digital conference on Wednesday, Bartz said the company’s…
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President Obama to Appoint Cybersecurity Czar
President Barrack Obama is expected to march out on the Rose Garden lawn Friday morning and proclaim the next cybersecurity czar—the man or woman who will coordinate and lead the defense of the U.S. critical digital infrastructure. Some people will argue that the need for this post has never been greater. Many IT security vendors…
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Level Platforms Enables Monitoring of Cloud-Based SAAS Apps for MSPs
Resellers and solution providers recognize a competitive threat when they see one. That’s why they ranked Microsoft and its software-as-a-service (SAAS) offering as the biggest competitive threat they face—not any apps from Google. Now managed services platform provider Level Platforms is looking to help its MSPs take advantage of the opportunities created by Microsoft’s launch…
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EMC, Symantec on Collision Course in Systems Management
Storage giant EMC is taking a step closer to becoming more of a systems management company–and on a collision course with Symantec–through the acquisition of configuration management software company Configuresoft. Configuresoft, a pioneer in security and network device configuration management and change control applications, will become a part of EMC’s Resource Management Software Group once…
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Caught Up in Data Center Convergence
One of the major new trends in enterprise computing that solution providers have to tread carefully is the push to lower the total cost of computing in the data center by converging network, server and storage technologies. On paper, the whole concept is pretty compelling. By creating a new generation of systems, vendors are allowing…