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Iomega Storage Platform Focuses on SMBs
Iomega on Jan. 23 launched 1TB and 2TB versions of its newest storage platform designed for small and midsize businesses, the StorCenter Pro NAS 150d Server. The StorCenter Pro NAS 150d Server features a backup location for computers that are on a company’s network, and also provides business users with secure space for important business…
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Epic Prepares to Ship Argus 3.0 Content Management Platform
The surfers whose exploits are captured in photos on the Mavericks Surf Ventures Web site may not have heard of Epic Cycle Interactive, but they have seen Epic’s handiwork every time they visited the site in the past six months. Epic provides software that allows organizations to manage Web-based content and provides a data management…
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New Office, Windows Mean (Small) Business
Microsoft did not really emphasize such benefits at the November 30 business launch of Windows Vista, which I found surprising. Microsoft last released new versions of Office and Windows together in 1995. Simultaneous release is an unprecedented marketing opportunity: Businesses upgrading operating systems typically go to a newer productivity suite about the same time. For…
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802.11n Standard Makes Progress in London Meeting
The long-anticipated 1.10 version of the IEEE 802.11n draft standard was approved unanimously in an IEEE task group meeting held in London in mid-January. According to Atheros CTO Bill McFarland, who attended the meeting, all of the 3,000-plus technical comments to the 11n draft 1.0 were resolved, and that in turn resulted in the successful…
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Survey: Half of SMBs Have Faith in the Security of VOIP
Only half of small and midsize business users feel they can trust the security behind IP telephony, according to a survey released Jan. 18 by the Computing Technology Industry Association (CompTIA) and IDC. User sensitivity to any disruption of service in voice communication and knowledge that IP telephony relies on the same systems they know…
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IBM Storage Arrays: Small on Price, Large on Performance
Continuing its strategy to add more products to its SMB storage catalog, IBM Jan. 16 introduced two entry-level-priced disk arrays with high-end, integrated management software boasting functionality previously found only in much larger systems. Big Blue’s announcement comes at a time when competing storage vendors, such as NEC, LSI Logic, EMC, NetApp, Quantum, Sun Microsystems…
