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Cisco Helps Utilities Green Their Energy with Smart Grid
Cisco (NASDAQ:CSCO) will partner with systems integrator channel partners, vendors and utility customers to deliver what it says will be an end-to-end, highly secure network infrastructure solution for utility companies to help their customers manage power supplies and energy consumption more efficiently. Cisco’s so called “Smart Grid” infrastructure plan looks to create a two-way communications…
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Zyxel Aims UTM Appliance at Midmarket Business
Zyxel Communications has introduced a new unified threat management appliance to round out its portfolio, giving solution providers the opportunity to reach larger midmarket customers with increased throughput for better network performance, according to Zyxel. "When all security services are enabled, the UTM throughput can be a bottleneck," says Shawn Rogers, product marketing manager at…
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IT Reseller Economic Stimulus Opportunity: Hospitals and Doctors
One of the biggest buckets of money expected to trickle down into the IT market as a result of the Obama administration’s economic stimulus package, or American Recovery and Reivestment Act, comes from the $20.4 billion directive to modernize hospitals and physician practices through the creation of electronic medical records and the end game of making…
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University of California Data Breached, Serious Security Incidents on the Rise
The University of California at Berkeley is the latest organization to suffer a damaging data security breach. The increasing number of security breaches and incidents has some calling for greater effort and controls of systems containing sensitive data. University officials revealed last week that hackers successfully breached the student and alumni records system, gaining access…
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Automating Security Assessments
One of things that most solution providers routinely offer potential new customers is a security assessment. The basic idea is that it’s a great way to get your foot in the door so you can discover what the customer actually needs versus just blindly trying to sell products. And best of all, after the assessment…
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FalconStor Reports Flat Revenues, Net Loss
FalconStor Software (NASDAQ: FALC) , a provider of disk-based data protection, announced slightly lower revenues for its first quarter—$21 million, compared with $21.8 million for the same period a year ago. FalconStor reported a net loss of $900,000, or 2 cents per share, compared with a net income of $1.3 million, or 3 cents…