Tag: infrastructure

  • Oracle Faces Uphill Climb with Channel Plans

    Pedro Pereira

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    It appears Oracle has finally discovered small and midsize businesses. While just about every other company in the IT universe has been tripping over itself to capitalize on that lucrative market, the Redwood Shores, Calif., database giant has kept busy buying enterprise software companies. But Oracle this week signaled some interest in the upper end… Read more

  • U.S.-Based Data-Center Outsourcers Face New Challenge

    U.S.-Based Data-Center Outsourcers Face New Challenge

    John Moore

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    Time was, the data center represented a point of pride and a symbol of strength for traditional U.S.-based outsourcers. Its power and scope was an indication of the company’s own prowess. Some took presentation of the data center to theatrical heights: visitors would recline in a viewing area and a curtain would part to reveal… Read more

  • Perimeter Recruits VARs for Managed Services

    Pedro Pereira

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    Perimeter Internetworking has come up with a plan to turn any VAR or integrator into an instant managed-services provider. The Milford, Conn., company, itself a managed-services provider, has packaged 60 of its managed services and is now offering them to VARS, integrators and service providers through its Instant Managed Services Solutions Provider program. Perimeter launched… Read more

  • Patch Management: Stop Killing the Database to Save It

    Patch Management: Stop Killing the Database to Save It

    Charles Garry

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    With all the recent public disclosures of data-privacy breaches, the spotlight is shining brightly on database security. Databases are clearly under direct attack from hackers on an ever-increasing basis. To paraphrase a famous exchange, “Why do you hack into databases?” “Because that’s where the data is!” In recent years we have seen an increasing number… Read more

  • Security Startup Apani Partners with HP

    Security Startup Apani Partners with HP

    Pedro Pereira

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    Security startup Apani Networks Inc. has enlisted Hewlett-Packard to sell and support its data-transfer security software, which makes it possible for companies to comply with federal regulations on data protection. The agreement between the two companies calls for Palo Alto, Calif.-based Hewlett-Packard Co. to carry Apani’s INS (In-depth Security) system and provide related compliance consulting… Read more

  • Brocade Invests in Tacit’s WAFS Solution

    Brocade Invests in Tacit’s WAFS Solution

    Karen Schwartz

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    In a move intended to provide a combined SAN and file networking infrastructure to enterprises using Microsoft’s Windows Server 2003 platform, Brocade Communications has purchased a minority ownership share in privately held Tacit Networks. The purchase will allow Brocade Communications Systems Inc. to add Tacit Networks Inc.’s WAFS (wide-area file services) solution built on Microsoft… Read more