Friday, December 19, 2008

IT News HeadLines (NetworkComputing) 19/12/2008



5 Tips to Cut Data Center Energy Use

Most data centers waste enormous amounts of electricity using inefficient cooling designs and systems. Gartner gives some tips which could save millions of kilowatt hours annually
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Sun Updates VirtualBox 2.1 Again
Only daily downloads of MySQL and Java exceed those for Sun's VirtualBox 2.1, which boasts improved performance for running Windows, Macintosh, Solaris, or Linux on any PC hardware
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Mobile Market Expecting Decline In 2009
As the global economy worsens, customers may be reluctant to buy new cell phones and smartphones, industry analysts suggest
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Toshiba Unveils 512-GB Notebook SSD
The company said the product is the first 2.5-inch solid-state drive to achieve a capacity of 512 GB
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Spice Mobile Handsets to Ship with Nimbuzz Applications
Nimbuzz a mobile instant messaging, (geo) presence and VoIP provider has recently announced a distribution deal with Spice Mobiles
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P. K Gopalakrishnan to Head MindTrees India Operations
In this role, he will hold business responsibility for Indian enterprises, defense and government sectors across both IT Services and RD Services businesses
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Visa Releases Banking Android App
The application lets G1 users get account alerts and discount offers, and it has integration with Google Maps to find nearby stores and ATMs
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Dell's Greener Packing Saving Them $8 Million
Dell's previous major initiative to reduce outbound packaging resulted in the company exceeding its goal of 10 million pounds by nearly 10% in 2007
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Global CIO: Stop Treating IT Like A Cost Center
A fly on the tavern wall relates a conversation among three CEOs about cultivating business technology leadership and innovation
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Indian Media House Deploys Red Hats Enterprise Linux OS
Red Hat has recently announced that The Indian Express Group has migrated to the companys Enterprise Linux 5
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Medicity to Deploy SAPs ERP Solution
SAP has recently announced that Global Healthcare has selected its ERP ECC 6.0 application as the standard technology platform for Medicity
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Acer Unveils its Affordable Netbooks
Acer has recently introduced its Aspire One range of Netbooks at affordable prices for the Indian consumer
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Polaris Opens its New Insurance Concept Lab
The lab, established at the companys Chennai campus, is aimed at building innovative solutions for the Insurance industry on Microsoft technologies
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Bharti Telesofts Prepaid Solution Finds Global Acceptance
Bharti Telesoft has recently announced the successful deployment its next generation PreTUPS prepaid solution with 25 leading mobile operators across the globe, with a latest customer in Qatar
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RMI to Deploy Aricents L2 Stack Reference Solutions
Aricent has recently announced that it has been selected by RMI to create Layer 2 (L2) protocol stack reference solutions for the companys XLS Processor for Long Term Evolution (LTE) base station applications
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Madhav Nagrik Sahakari Bank Signs a Five Year Agreement with IBM
IBM has recently announced the signing of a five-year IT outsourcing agreement with Madhav Nagrik Sahakari Bank, one of the leading co-operative banks in the state of Rajasthan
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Huawei Technologies to Tap the Android-based Phone Market
Huawei Technologies has recently announced its entry into the Open Handset Alliance and its plan to launch smart phones based on the Android platform next year
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VMware, HP Team Up On Virtual Data Center OS
The move reflects VMWare's desire to more closely integrate its ESX hypervisor operation with underlying physical assets and software infrastructures
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Business Objects Rolls out Latest Version of BI OnDemand Software
Solution is a complete suite of BI capabilities, including data warehouse, delivered on-demand
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Poor Computer Security Putting Immigrant Data At Risk
Vulnerabilities are common where money transfers, check cashing, bill payment, travel services, auto insurance, or notary services are provided, a research firm found
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Ingres Builds Open Source Stack With Red Hat
It's neither a duplicate of nor replacement for LAMP, but will be marketed for use in transaction processing
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Bangalore Nano 2008 Attracts Many Budding Scientists and Researchers
A two day event on nano technology called 2nd Bangalore Nano 2008 received a good success in Bangalore
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ATT Opens its First Data Center in India
The new data centre located at Bangalore, will help the company meet the growing demand from multinational customers in India for online data centers with highly resilient facilities
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MTNL to Offer 3G Services in India
Mahanagar Telephone Nigam Limited (MTNL) one of India's leading telecom service providers, has recently announced the launch of its 3G services in the country
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Red Hat Extends its JBoss Support for Google Web Toolkit
Red Hat has recently announced that it has signed the Google Contributor Agreement allowing the company to extend its developer and production support along with support for JBoss to Google Web Toolkit (GWT)
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Pantaloon Retail Deploys CyberSources Anti-fraud Solution for its Online Portal
CyberSource has recently announced the deployment of its Decision Manager anti-fraud solution by FutureBazaar India the online shopping portal of Pantaloon Retail, one of Indias largest retailers
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Cisco Unveils its Media Processing Engine
Cisco has recently introduced its media processing platform which will simplify live and on-demand media sharing across PCs, mobile devices and other digital screens, by seamlessly formatting video and rich media for viewing on any device
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Netmagic to Extend its Services Portfolio with New ISV Alliances
Netmagic Solutions has recently announced its alliance with four ISVs to extend its services to various industry verticals
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VASCO Expands its aXs GUARD Product Portfolio
VASCO Data Security International has recently introduced new additions to its aXs GUARD offering with the launch of aXs GUARD Identifier and an upgrade to aXs GUARD Gatekeeper
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Wipro to Deploy McAfees Security Products and Services
McAfee has recently announced its global alliance with Wipro Technologies which will allow Wipro to deploy the companys security solutions
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Sterling Commerce and Infosys to Expand Their Global Partnership
Sterling Commerce, an ATT company and Infosys Technologies have recently announced the expansion of their global alliance to target customers in the financial services and retail industries
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D-Link to Offer its Products at Reduced Prices
Following a slash in excise duties by Central Government the company aims to pass on the benefits to its channel partners and customers by slashing prices on products manufactured locally in India, which includes, Broadband products, Routers, VoIP and SCS Components
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Wipro Wins Award for its UC Solution Deployment
Wipro Technologies has recently announced that it has won the Network World Asia IT All Stars Award 2008 for the innovative use of technology to solve a business problem
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Salesforce.com, Google Expand Partnership To Google App Engine
The deal, which connects Google App Engine with the Force.com Web application platform, ramps up an already broad partnership between Google and Salesforce
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Unified Communications In Hot Demand
Nearly one-third of end users interviewed in the Market Tools study expressed strong interest in getting UC, much more than their IT managers thought
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IBM, Oracle, Red Hat Form Test Bed For Web Service Interoperability
The Web Services Test Forum aims to establish interoperability among products built to the IETF, Oasis, World Wide Web Consortium, and other standards
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Microsoft Windows Mobile 6.1 Cloning Software Unveiled
Sprite Clone 6.5 enables IT departments to mass deploy various performance improvements across multiple users; as many as 300 devices in an hour
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Intels Initiative to Recognize Research and Innovation Talent among Indian Students
The program in its third consecutive year saw 100 projects being shortlisted out of the 1000 project entries from schools across India being selected for final assessment
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Logitechs Mice Shipments Reach One Billion
With a Gartner report estimating more than a billion people currently using computers globally and another billion expected to begin using computers by 2014 Logitech promises to continue to pursue compelling innovation to delight users of the next billion mice and input devices of the future
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Micro Technologies introduces its Security System for Two-wheelers
Called the Micro Bike Security System (Micro BSS) the device is aimed at providing a reliable security system for two-wheeler segment in the market
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VMwares Desktop Virtualization Solution
VMware has recently introduced its virtual desktop computing solution called the VMware View 3
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Microsoft India Unveils its New Server Solutions for SMBs
Microsoft India has recently introduced Windows Small Business Server 2008 (SBS 2008) and Windows Essential Business Server 2008 (EBS 2008) designed for use by the Small and Medium Businesses (SMB) segment
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Sify to Offer Managed Security Services to Indian Enterprises
Sify Technologies along with Juniper Networks has recently announced the launch of enhanced managed security services for small to large Indian enterprises using Junipers Adaptive Threat Management Solutions
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Linksys Unveils the WRT110 RangePlus Wireless Router
Linksys has recently introduced the WRT110 RangePlus Wireless Router, an entry level wireless-N router aimed at providing an enhanced and extended wireless experience
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Yahoo Shares Jump On Report Of Possible Sale
Jonathan Miller, who ran AOL from 2002 to 2006, has reportedly been talking to private-equity investors and sovereign-wealth funds for months
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Standard Chartered Bank Chooses Transaction Lifecycle Management (TLM)
SmartStream solution will manage rapid growth in banks financial markets business
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Compliance 360 Enhances Solution for Managing Claims Audits and Appeals
Claims Auditor reduces audit cost liability for a variety of claims audits
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Neptuny Launches Caplan 3.0, Capacity Management Solution
Caplan 3.0 is suited for large data centers and networks
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Amazon Opens SimpleDB To Unlimited Public Beta
To help entice businesses to at least try out its cloud computing-integrated database service, Amazon is offering a free tier of usage for the next six months
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Poor Computer Security Putting Immigrant Data At Risk
Vulnerabilities are common where money transfers, check cashing, bill payment, travel services, auto insurance, or notary services are provided, a research firm found
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Pantaloon Retail Deploys CyberSources Anti-fraud Solution for its Online Portal
CyberSource has recently announced the deployment of its Decision Manager anti-fraud solution by FutureBazaar India the online shopping portal of Pantaloon Retail, one of Indias largest retailers
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VASCO Expands its aXs GUARD Product Portfolio
VASCO Data Security International has recently introduced new additions to its aXs GUARD offering with the launch of aXs GUARD Identifier and an upgrade to aXs GUARD Gatekeeper
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Wipro to Deploy McAfees Security Products and Services
McAfee has recently announced its global alliance with Wipro Technologies which will allow Wipro to deploy the companys security solutions
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Microsoft to Integrate RSA Security Solutions with its Products
The partnership will have Microsoft building the RSA Data Loss Prevention (DLP) classification technology into the Microsoft platform and future information protection products
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Sify to Offer Managed Security Services to Indian Enterprises
Sify Technologies along with Juniper Networks has recently announced the launch of enhanced managed security services for small to large Indian enterprises using Junipers Adaptive Threat Management Solutions
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Underground Economy Valued at $276 Million Says Symantec Report
The potential value of total advertised goods observed by the company was more than $276 million for the reporting period
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Aladdins Cybercrime Investigation Facility
Aladdin Knowledge Systems has recently announced the opening of its Attack Intelligence Research Center, a facility designed for Internet security cybercrime investigation
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Symantec Estimates Cybercrime Economy At $276 Million
However, the potential value of the credit card information and bank account credentials being sold, if criminally exploited to its maximum potential, could reach $7 billion
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Securities Investments IT Spending Update:Navigating the New Volatility
According to a report published by Celent, as capital markets firms recede, reorganize, and seek safe harbors, IT spending and priorities are coming into focus
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Delhi Police Takes Help of IT to Fight Crime
Delhi police recently deployed an automated solution from HCL Infosystems to track telephone calls made and to record the complaints registered on the phone
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mChek Wins Security Standards Certification
mChek one of Indias largest mobile payment platform has recently announced that it been certified as compliant with the latest Payment Card Industry, Data Security Standard 1.2
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IronPort Systems Offers Faster Web Security
IronPort Systems has recently introduced its fastest Web security appliances, capable of supporting up to 30,000 end-users with a single device
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VASCO Introduces the Digipass 865
VASCO Data Security International has recently announced its new USB connectable card reader which can be used both in connected and unconnected mode
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3i Infotech and Trayport Partner to Provide Risk Management Solutions
3i Infotech has recently announced that it is working with Trayport to integrate its risk management solutions with Trayports GlobalVision electronic trading platform
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Sonasoft Introduces Email Archiving Solution
SonaSafe for Email Archiving solution enables customers to meet regulatory compliance and eDiscovery requirements
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VASCO Unveils its First USB-based PKI Authentication Solution
VASCO Data Security International has recently introduced its first USB-based PKI solution for strong authentication, digital signature and data protection
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Sendio Launches E-mail Security Solution for Enterprise Market
Sendio (Irvine, Ca.) rolled out its E-mail Security Platform (ESP), a robust and scalable appliance solution
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McAfee Unveils its 2009 End User Product Line up
The new versions of the companys Total Protection, Internet Security, Anti-Theft Protection, Virus Scan Plus promise benefits such as faster detection, updated protection, better performance with lesser resource utilization and encrypted file protection
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Symantec Releases its Disaster Recovery Survey Findings
Symantec has recently announced the India findings of its Disaster Recovery (DR) survey, a global research initiative which surveyed 1,000 executives worldwide
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ISC2 To Offer Certification For Software Lifecycle Security
The designation aims to reduce application vulnerabilities by encouraging use of best practices for safeguarding security in software development, deployment, and disposal
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Data Center Encryption Is Key To Security
And key management is crucial for your encryption plan to succeed
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Some Countries Prone To Data Loss, Cisco Finds
Only 42% of Chinese employees surveyed changed the security setting on their computers, while Brazilians are more likely to share private company information with friends
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Netgear to Acquire CP Secure
Netgear has recently announced the execution of a definitive agreement to acquire the assets of privately-held CP Secure
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Staples Launches Online Backup, Security Service
The Thrive service offers backup, online security, virus and spyware protection, and remote help desk support to small and medium-sized businesses
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McAfee to Acquire Secure Computing for $465 Million
With the acquisition the McAfee aims to strengthen its position in Security Risk Management (SRM) market
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Subex Unveils the Nikira v7.0
The new version aims provides operators with next generation fraud management capabilities for proactive fraud management through early detection of internal and external fraud
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Interop: Wall St. Turmoil Won't Slow Network Spending
About half of the respondents at the New York show reported that their budgets for security and network performance management are slated for increases
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Websense Launches the Web Security Gateway
Websense has recently introduced its real-time Web 2.0 content classification and malware protection offering called the Web Security Gateway
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Cognos TM1 Upgrade Lets Users Drill Down on Rows
In-memory analytics engine gets enhanced Excel-integration, security features and international language support
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Secure Computing to Increase Product Portfolio with Securify Acquisition
Secure Computing has recently announced that it has signed an agreement to acquire identity-based monitoring solutions provider Securify
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F- Secures Products for Instantaneous Online Threat Detection
F-Secure, the anti-virus software and security tools providers Wellbeing 2009 family of consumer IT security products deliver enhanced protection against new online threats
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IBM Unveils Security-Enhanced Blade
The CloudShield software-enhanced server makes it possible to prioritize network activity, such as video sharing, and Web traffic, to minimize end-user delays, IBM said
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Aladdin to Provide HASP SRM Migration Support
Aladdin Knowledge Systems has recently announced the formation of Hardware Against Software Piracy (HASP) SRM Migration Support Team that will support software publishers migrating to the companys HASP SRM Software DRM solution
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Procter Gamble Taps IBM ISS For Cybersecurity Contract
The five-year deal includes monitoring and maintaining PG's four existing IBM ISS Proventia SiteProtector management consoles used in Asia, Europe, and North America
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Mac Clone Maker Psystar Plans Antitrust Suit Against Apple
Psystar claims Apple's restrictions on third-party hardware makers violate U.S. antitrust laws
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This Year's Data Breaches Surpass 2007 Totals
The rising number of reported data breaches in the last eight months may just mean corporate security auditors are better at finding compromised systems, ITRC researchers suggest
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SafeNet Rolls Out Encryption Solution for IBM Mainframes
SafeNet has introduced a mainframe solution which leverages Ingrian Networks' advanced encryption capabilities to allow customers to protect sensitive information in z/OS environments
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Microsoft Readies 'InPrivate' And 'Cleartracks' Internet Privacy Tools
Trademark applications show that the features are designed to let users conceal their movements on the Web
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Security Researcher Defends Plan To Release Gmail Hacking Tool
The software could affect many SSL-secured Web sites, including Amazon, Facebook, Gmail, addons.mozilla.org, most Drupal sites, and many online merchants and banks
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Symantec Launches Endpoint Management Suite
Symantec has announced the release of the new Symantec Endpoint Management Suite for integrated systems management, endpoint security and backup and recovery
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Jetking to Offer UTM Training
Watchgaurd has recently announced its partnership with Jetking Infotrain to provide training on the network security solution providers Unified Threat Management (UTM) products
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GemStone Forms Alliance with KPIT Cummins
Strategic alliance to offer high performance computing and cluster management to firms in the U.S., India, Japan and Europe
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Juniper Centralizes And Unifies Network Management
Network and Security Manager 2008.1 is a centralized network manager for Juniper's NetScreen Firewall, IDP appliance, M-Series routers, and EX-Series switches
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Secure Computing Announces New Asia Pacific Headquarters in Singapore
This office would enhance the company's network, messaging and web gateway security solutions as well as its identity and access management products
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Aladdin Deploys Two-Factor Authentication in Indian Banks
Aladdin Knowledge Systems, an information security solutions provider, plans to increase the use of two-factor authentication amongst Indian banks
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Microsoft To Share More Security Information
The Microsoft Exploitability Index aims to help IT administrators prioritize patches by rating the likelihood that vulnerabilities will be exploited
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Web and Email Threats Continues to Rise in 2008
Websense Security Labs recently conducted research that says that 60 percent of the top 100 most popular Web sites either hosted malicious content or contained a masked redirect
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WatchGuard, Dell Tie up for UTM Solutions
WatchGuard Technologies has entered into a strategic partnership with Dell India under which the latter will provide WatchGuards Unified Threat Management (UTM) network security appliances along with its computer systems
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5 Tips to Cut Data Center Energy Use
Most data centers waste enormous amounts of electricity using inefficient cooling designs and systems. Gartner gives some tips which could save millions of kilowatt hours annually
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Toshiba Unveils 512-GB Notebook SSD
The company said the product is the first 2.5-inch solid-state drive to achieve a capacity of 512 GB
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VMware, HP Team Up On Virtual Data Center OS
The move reflects VMWare's desire to more closely integrate its ESX hypervisor operation with underlying physical assets and software infrastructures
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ATT Opens its First Data Center in India
The new data centre located at Bangalore, will help the company meet the growing demand from multinational customers in India for online data centers with highly resilient facilities
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NETGEARs ReadyNAS Pro Gigabit Desktop Storage
The product family which can support up to 200 users is designed to provide an easy to deploy and easy to use, cost-effective, high availability and high performance scalable solution
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HPs ProLiant BL495c Blade Server
The product promises to eliminate performance bottlenecks by accelerating virtual server speed with twice the memory capacity, solid state drives that use significantly less power, and up to two more Ethernet network connections than competitive offerings
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VMwares Desktop Virtualization Solution
VMware has recently introduced its virtual desktop computing solution called the VMware View 3
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Microsoft India Unveils its New Server Solutions for SMBs
Microsoft India has recently introduced Windows Small Business Server 2008 (SBS 2008) and Windows Essential Business Server 2008 (EBS 2008) designed for use by the Small and Medium Businesses (SMB) segment
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IBM Launches Cloud Computing Services
Big Blue is introducing new products aimed at helping customers move apps to the Web
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HP Offers AMD Shanghai-Based Workstation
The xw9400 is available with Windows Vista and XP Professional and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4
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MAIA Intelligence Introduces the 1KEY MIS Servers
MAIA Intelligence has recently unveiled its new MIS server portfolio named 1KEY MIS Servers
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Amazon Bolsters Its Cloud With Content Delivery
With its relatively simple interface and services, CloudFront is aiming to meet content delivery needs of startups and Amazon Web Services customers
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Indian Data Center Footprint to Reach 5.1 Million Square Feet by 2012
The research company also estimates that the data center industry in India is expected to double its capacity in the next two years, and captive and hosted data centers capacities will grow at comparable rates
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Microsoft Introduces the Windows HPC Server 2008
Microsoft India has recently introduced its latest offering in the High Performance Computing (HPC) segment with the Release to Manufacture (RTM) of Windows HPC Server 2008
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Zenoss Monitoring Adds VMware Virtual Machine Visibility
Updates to the Zenoss 2.3 open source network management system include discovery and inventory of VMware-based virtual machines and detection of VM movement from one host to another
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IBM Launches Six-core Intel Xeon Powered Servers
IBM has recently introduced two new System x servers featuring the new six-core processor technology from Intel
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Dell, IBM, Microway Unveil AMD Shanghai Servers
With refreshed blades, racks, and towers, the computer makers are hoping to bask in the limelight from the launch of AMD's 45-nm Opteron server processor
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25% Of DNS Servers Still Vulnerable To Kaminsky Flaw
Security researchers say that DNS will remain a primary exploit target because many people don't understand the Internet's domain name system
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Brocade to Showcase its Storage Solutions at Hitachis Lab
Brocade has recently announced that it will showcase its storage solutions at the Hitachi Data Systems Proof of Concept Lab, that demonstrates world class and cutting edge storage solutions to clients in India
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Windows Server 2008 R2 Aims To Obsolete VPNs
The DirectAccess features lets employees connect automatically to the network without having to use a VPN client or enter any user name or password
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AMD, Red Hat Demo 'Live' VM Migration Across Platforms
The vendors posted a YouTube video showing the migration of a running virtual machine from an Intel Xeon-based server to one running AMD's quad-core Shanghai processor
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Windows Server 2008 R2 Perks Up Virtualization
In addition to Hyper-V, Terminal Services, the company's presentation virtualization technology, gets a significant boost and a new name
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CSC Plans China Data Centers
The new facilities will help the outsourcer expand its presence in Asia
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IBM Offers Free Cloud Computing To North Carolina Students
The program is an expansion of IBM's Virtual Computing Lab, a two-year-old, on-demand computing platform powered by donated IBM BladeCenter servers and software
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Amazon.com Offers App Hosting On Windows Server
The offering is the latest in Amazon's Elastic Compute Cloud service, which launched out of beta Thursday
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Microsoft's New Open Communications Server Enters Crowded Field
By adding features, Microsoft hopes to close a gap with traditional telecom companies
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Intel Ships SSDs For Servers, Storage Systems
Intel plans to start sending samples of a 64-GB SSD this quarter to computer makers, with the larger drive set to go into production in the first quarter of next year
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Sun Unveils Midrange Sparc Enterprise Server
The T5440 is Sun's first quad-socket, general-purpose server powered by the company's UltraSparc T2 Plus processor
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NetApp Promises 50 Percent Reduction in Virtualized Storage
NetApp recently announced that customers deploying its storage virtualization solution would require half of their estimated virtualized storage capacity
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Open Text Offers Help In Managing Storage Of SharePoint Documents
Open Text Storage Services for SharePoint plugs into the latter software's application programming interface for redirecting binary large objects, or BLOBs, which are not necessary for queries to the database
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Microsoft And Oracle Are Scaling Out
New products involve running large data warehouses on clusters of small, low-cost servers
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Red Hat To Adopt Qumranet Desktop Virtualization Products
The KVM engine may offer some efficiencies in running virtual machines that Citrix XenServer and VMware's ESX Server lack, Red Hat said
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IBM Unveils Servers, Storage For Midsize Companies
The systems carry IBM's "Express" brand, indicating that they are faster to deploy than enterprise-level servers and contain a number of automated management features to simplify maintenance
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Microsoft Will Bow In-Memory Analysis, Appliance-Ready Database in 2010
Microsoft SQL Server upgrades take center stage at this week's Microsoft Business Intelligence Conference 2008
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Inside 11's Giant Web Hosting Data Center
Photos of the ISP's newly green data center in Kansas reveal the infrastructure behind the Web host's strategically located facility
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Cisco, Microsoft Unveil Windows Server Appliance
In marketing the appliance, "Windows Server on WAAS" targets companies looking to avoid a full-blown deployment of the software, which is more than is needed in most branch offices
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SpringSource Unveils Its OSGi-Supported App Server
The SpringSource dm Server aims to simplify the deployment environment the way it has done in the development environment
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Startups Fill Heterogenous Virtualization Management Void
Credit Suisse rolled its own virtualization layer, putting management tools on top of all the leading hypervisors, letting it sustain a cross-vendor infrastructure
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IBM Launches Blade Storage System For SMBs
The BladeCenter S also can be used by large organizations looking to consolidate storage among branch offices
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Startup Puts Microsoft Windows In Amazon's Clouds
Until 3Tera came along, EC2 customers could only choose among Unix-based operating systems, but couldn't run Windows or SQL Server applications
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Google Data Centers 'The Most Efficient In The World'
The company has launched a Web site to demonstrate its commitment to sustainable computing and encourage sustainable practices elsewhere
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HP Offers $360 Million For Storage Player LeftHand Networks
LeftHand's iSCSI SAN software can play nicely with virtual servers, because the product can be packaged with a virtual machine and used as a virtual storage appliance
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HP to Increase Presence in the Next-Generation Data Center Market
HP has recently announced the growth of its next-generation data centers customer base with the signing of contracts with over 60 customers to provide them with data center design services
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VMware Beefs Up Ability To Deliver Virtual Desktops
The enhancements make it possible to run multimedia presentations over Remote Desktop Protocol such as voice combined with images
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Oracle and HP Partner to Deliver Data Warehouse Appliance
HP Oracle Database Machine takes on Teradata and Netezza in a bid to defend Oracle's database dominance
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Dell, EMC Offer Pre-Configured Oracle Data Warehouse
The initiative reflects the emerging interest among BI customers in data warehouse appliances that deliver high-speed data mining
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Oracle, Intel To Accelerate Cloud Computing
The companies are looking to connect private clouds to those of partners or third-party companies offering storage, server capacity, middleware, and other services
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InNUG Extends Support to HPs NonStop Servers
The group which is the Indian arm of the International Tandem User Group (ITUG) has adopted and supported the companys NonStop product line extensively
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IBM Upgrades Tivoli Dashboard For Monitoring Computer Operations
Systems Director 6.1 can reduce system administration and energy costs in a typical data center by nearly 30%, according to IBM
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