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CA Automation Suite Offers Integration, Configuration Features
IT management software specialist CA Technologies announced the release of its Automation Suite, designed to help businesses migrate to a virtualized, dynamic cloud computing infrastructure. The suite is designed to offer a business service-centric approach to the deployment and elastic scaling of IT infrastructure and services by automating, orchestrating, integrating and standardizing the provisioning and…
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Spiceworks Updates Free IT Management Application
IT management specialist Spiceworks, Inc. announced the availability of the fifth generation of its free social IT management software application, with new features including the ability to monitor and manage applications, devices and cloud services based on the people who use them within the organization; advanced network configuration management capabilities; and a centralized help desk…
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Tablet Sales to Near 20 Million in 2010, Gartner Predicts
Driven by sales of the Apple iPad, worldwide media tablet sales to users are forecast to reach 19.5 million units in 2010, according to IT research firm Gartner. The firm said media tablets are poised for strong growth with worldwide user sales projected to total 54.8 million units in 2011, up 181 percent from 2010,…
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Hacker Attacks Rise Among Business, McAfee Reports
Security specialist McAfee released research finding mid-sized organizations have seen increased attacks on their networks and systems since last year. According to the McAfee report The Security Paradox, more than half of midsize companies surveyed globally have seen more security incidents in the past year, 40 percent have had data breaches and 75 percent believe…
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VMware vCloud Request Manager Designed for Hybrid Clouds
Virtualization and cloud infrastructure specialist VMware announced an evolutionary model of IT infrastructure based on virtualization that unifies hybrid, private and public cloud resource pools with consistent security, compliance, management and quality of service. The vCloud Request Manager is designed to further streamline production and consumption of infrastructure services by adding automated approval workflows to…
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Small Business Borrowing Climbing Again
(Reuters) – Borrowing by small businesses jumped in August, data released by PayNet Inc on Friday showed, adding to evidence the economy is not headed toward a double dip recession as some analysts have feared. The Thomson Reuters/PayNet Small Business Lending Index, which measures the overall volume of financing to small businesses, rose 15 percent…