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Ntirety, Tizor Partner to Offer Database Monitoring Service
Tizor Systems has agreed to allow its intelligent data auditing and protection product, Mantra, to be used by database administration company Ntirety in a new managed security service package. The new product, dubbed Remote DAS (Data Auditing Service), will provide Ntirety customers with compliance assurance, data monitoring and information theft detection by monitoring, auditing and…
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Toshiba Breaks New Tablet PC Ground
With Apple MacBook-like looks, a fantastic widescreen display and the kind of portability usually found in Lenovo ThinkPads, Toshiba’s Protégé R400 is the most groundbreaking Tablet PC eWEEK Labs has tested. Unfortunately, users will pay for the innovation—in terms of both price and performance. Announced at the International CES and set to begin shipping Jan.…
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Microsoft’s Mac Office 2008 Shows Plenty of Eye Candy
Microsoft’s Macintosh Business Unit on Jan. 9 unveiled an early version of Office 2008, the first update to Office for the Mac in nearly three years. It appears that the MacBU has put a lot of work into it. Whether all that work will make Office 2008 “better” than the current version—or, even, better than…
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Exchange Server 2007: Been There, Done That?
The newest version of Microsoft’s Exchange Server is as significant a leap forward as the two other major platforms Microsoft introduced in 2006—Office 2007 and Windows Vista. The changes to Exchange Server 2007, which became available in December, are numerous, including mobile support, integrated unified messaging, bundled anti-spam and anti-virus capabilities, a new Outlook Web…
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ZyXel Security Appliance Does More for Less
ZyXel Communications’ ZyWall 1050 puts advanced network security in the hands of small and midsize businesses. The ZyWall 1050 is a 1U (1.75-inch) Internet security appliance that provides firewall protection, a 1,000-tunnel VPN option and a host of traffic control features for governing internal users. Announced in October, the ZyWall 1050 costs $4,000. Although this…
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Cisco Plans Channel Program for MSPs
Cisco Systems has rolled out a separate pilot channel program designed specifically for managed service providers and outsourcers that it said it hopes to make a standard element of its channel programs some time in the first quarter. The program will offer different payment terms and conditions to managed service providers that have customers with…
