Tag: cloud
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Software Companies Expect Cloud Computing to Drive Industry Growth in 2011: Survey
The cloud is where it’s at—or so suggested a Sand Hill Group survey set to be released later this week. The report shows that the majority of the more than 100 software company CEOs and CFOs interviewed believe cloud computing and Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) will drive the largest amount of spending in the software industry over… Read more
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Cisco, Verizon Move UC Cloud Service to Beta Testing
Cisco Systems and Verizon in July 2010 kicked off field tests of a hosted unified communications service built around new offerings from Cisco. That partnership evolved further last month, when the two businesses unveiled their Unified Communications and Collaboration as a Service offering during the Enterprise Connect conference. At a recent briefing for analysts and… Read more
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McAfee Enhances Network Security Platform
Security specialist McAfee announced enhancements to its Network Security Platform, including enhanced botnet control through reputation intelligence, virtual network inspection and a traffic analysis port for network monitoring, forensics and other advanced analysis engines. In addition, real-time, reputation-based intelligence through McAfee Global Threat Intelligence provides Network Security Platform users with additional context for enforcing network… Read more
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Ingram Micro: Half of VTN Members Selling Cloud
Categories: Cloud Computing, Collaboration, Managed Services, News and Trends, Partners, VirtualizationIf you haven’t already noticed, the big word in the tech industry this year is "cloud." That was certainly in evidence this week at both the Synnex Varnex community event in Boston and at Ingram Micro’s VTN invitational community event in Chicago. These two distributors laid out cloud plans with an eye to becoming an… Read more
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Seagate’s i365 Provides Cloud-Based Data Recovery
Seagate’s i365 storage division April 12 launched a new cloud-based backup/recovery and data security service designed for laptop and desktop PCs. It also helps control the spread of sensitive data to the outside or throughout a mobile workforce using security features that include local file encryption, remote data deletion, port access control and device tracing—if… Read more