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  • EMC to Cut Back on Acquisitions, Focus on Business

    EMC to Cut Back on Acquisitions, Focus on Business

    Chris Preimesberger

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    SAN FRANCISCO—Data storage giant EMC has been a consistent swallower of other companies over the past five years, acquiring no fewer than 31 of them—some large, some small—during that period. For the time being, however, the big whale from Hopkinton, Mass., looks as though it might lose some weight sifting through plankton instead of engulfing… Read more

  • RSA to Partner with McAfee and Privaris, Buy Valyd

    RSA to Partner with McAfee and Privaris, Buy Valyd

    Patrick Hoffman

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    RSA does not just host the biggest vendor-driven security event of the year. It also makes news of its own. At its RSA Conference in San Francisco, RSA, the security division of EMC, announced Feb. 7 that it has signed an agreement with McAfee to work together on a security platform that will help its… Read more

  • Demand for IT Temp Workers Expected to Outpace Permanent

    Demand for IT Temp Workers Expected to Outpace Permanent

    Deborah Perelman

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    With computer, management and legal positions in highest demand, temporary employment is expected to grow three times as fast as total employment over the next decade, according to the 2007 Temporary Jobs Guidebook report released Feb. 5 by Staffing Industry Analysts, a Los Altos provider of workforce market intelligence. Demand for IT workers remains strong… Read more

  • Foresight Is a Linux Distro to Watch

    Foresight Is a Linux Distro to Watch

    Jason Brooks

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    It seems as if a new Linux-based operating system is born every day, with each facing the challenge of justifying its existence in a field that’s already rather crowded with mature Linux distributions boasting active user bases and organized bodies to back them. But one relatively young Linux distribution worth keeping an eye on is… Read more

  • HP to Acquire Bristol Technology

    HP to Acquire Bristol Technology

    Renee Boucher Ferguson

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    Hewlett-Packard is building out its software and solutions management capabilities with the Feb. 5 acquisition of Bristol Technology. Bristol, based in Danbury, Conn., develops two separate software suites, TransactionVision and Cross-Platform Solutions. TransactionVision enables companies to track and trace business process transactions, similar to monitoring packages as they are sent through the overnight delivery process.… Read more

  • Tripwire Aims to Find Needle in IT Haystack

    Tripwire Aims to Find Needle in IT Haystack

    Paula Musich

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    Configuration audit and control provider Tripwire on Feb. 5 gave IT a better handle on controlling configuration changes that can cause outages or compliance issues when it launched the latest release of its Tripwire Enterprise software. The configuration monitoring and control software is designed to help IT track changes made outside of existing policies to… Read more