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Finjan Provides Vital Management in Security Appliances
Security vendors are finding that increased competition and new ideas in protection are starting to chip away at sales of on-premises appliances. The real question becomes, can security vendors reinvent themselves to do battle in a Web 2.0 world? Finjan thinks it can and is focusing on ease of management as the means for accomplishing…
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WeRecoverData.com Does Heavy Lifting for e-Discovery
Recovering crashed hard drives, discovering lost passwords, performing e-discovery chores and other data retrieval tasks have required tools and specialist not often available to the typical solution provider. Customers calling for those services were usually shuffled off to an organization specializing in those tasks, leaving the solution provider out of the loop. WeRecoverData.com is looking…
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IBM, Voltaire Seek Faster Data Centers
Voltaire has announced it will design a custom, high-performance 40GB per second InfiniBand switch module for IBM to accelerate performance of applications running on BladeCenter. The integrated product, expected to be released within the next six months, will help solution providers deliver faster, more efficient data center solutions. “Customers’ data centers are only as fast…
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EDS, Services Stabilize HP’s Q1
Hewlett-Packard has shown its resilience during the ongoing recession—until now. The bad news is that demand for PCs is down and is expected to stay down in 2009. The good news is that services appear to be remaining resilient for computing and IT services giant HP, making HP’s EDS acquisition in 2008 seem like an…
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IBM Tightens Partner Certification Requirements
IBM this week quietly announced it will soon require partners meet more stringent certification requirements to resell a number of products in its software group. The move comes as a result of customers demand of higher skill levels from solution providers delivering solutions around Big Blue’s Websphere, Tivoli, Rational database and Lotus offerings, among others,…
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The Toshiba Portege R600: Executive Jewelry?
To be a contender in the ultraportable market, one has to design a notebook computer that’s lightweight, powerful, feature rich and long battery life. Toshiba has accomplished that time and again with its Portege ultraportable notebooks. The latest model, the R600, is no exception. But, over the last year the market has changed – more…