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Symantec Acquires LiveOffice for Cloud-Based Archiving
Data protection and cloud services provider Symantec, filling out its cloud and collaboration software portfolio, revealed Jan. 16 that it has acquired longtime partner LiveOffice, a provider of cloud-based archiving services. Financial details of the transaction were not released, but Jefferies & Company equity analyst Aaron Schwartz said in a media advisory that he estimated…
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Microsoft System Center 2012 Bridges Hybrid Cloud
This week Microsoft announced that it made its System Center 2012 Release Candidate available to better help its customers and partners build out private cloud infrastructure and provide a single pane of glass management for hybrid clouds. According to Satya Nadella, president of Microsoft’s Server and Tools Business, Microsoft is taking the covers off of…
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IBM Showcases Beta for IBM Docs , Next Gen of Collaborative Suite of Office Business Tools
ORLANDO, FL–At Lotusphere 2012, IBM unveiled the beta version of its next iteration of IBM Docs, formerly known as Lotus Symphony. Available now on Greenhouse, the cloud-based set of social document editors includes a suite of office-productivity applications such as a word processor, spreadsheet and presentation tool. IBM Docs was designed to help teams share…
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Microsoft Promises Skype Integration for Windows Phone
Despite being owned by Microsoft, the company’s mobile Windows Phone operating system still doesn’t have an application by voice over IP (VOIP) provider Skype, but that will change soon, Microsoft’s Skype division Vice President Rick Osterloh promised in an interview during last week’s Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas. Some analysts are predicting the…