Wednesday, April 1, 2009

IT News HeadLines (NetworkComputing) 01/04/2009



HP extends Recycling Program to Customers and SMBs
Beginning May 15, customers will be able to drop off HP-branded technology equipment at HP service centers in 17 locations across 9 cities in India
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IBM Sees Costs Aligning With Green Tech
The company is soliciting ideas and promoting its own recommendations on conserving resources through its Smarter Planet approach
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Novell Ships SUSE Linux Enterprise 11
Novell recently announced the availability of SUSE Linux Enterprise 11, containing enhancements to SUSE Linux Enterprise Server and SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop
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Unisys Launches RIM Offering
Unisys recently launched its new Unisys converged RIM Suite service offering, that provides enterprises with a single, converged view of their IT infrastructure and the ability to monitor and manage the end-to-end environment
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Enterprise Mobility Investments Provide Big Payback
Top-performing companies increased their investment in enterprise mobility by 19 percent over the past two years, fueling a 36 percent jump in employee productivity, according to Aberdeen Group
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Forrester Research on being a service provider to your business
Alex Cullen of Forrester Research gives an insight into how IT is not a disjoint subset of the organization's total spend but a service that helps optimize business functions
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Prices of Services in Outsourcing Set to Decline Through 2010
Prices of IT services in outsourcing are anticipated to shrink by 5 percent to 20 percent during 2009 and 2010, according to Gartner
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Lawsuits Could Derail Satyam Sale
Company says it can't predict financial impact of investors' class-action claims
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IBM Poised For Major U.S. Job Cuts, Workers Say
Published reports suggest Big Blue may ax up to 5,000 services employees
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UN Bars Satyam From Outsourcing Work
The United Nations plans to terminate its outsourcing contracts with scandal-plagued Satyam and will bar the outsourcer from bidding on future work, according to a report published Tuesday
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Lenovo Refreshes Workstations With Desktop Supercomputer
The ThinkStation S20 and D20 are designed for professionals in fields such as computer-aided design, digital content creation, and oil and gas
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IBM Turns To Wyse For Thin Client Services
Wyse updates its thin client OS to version 6.3 to allow it to monitor what type of content a server is preparing to send to the user
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HP Promises Reduced Storage Costs with its New Storage Virtualization Solutions
The companys new storage virtualization solutions promise a reduction of up 50 to 70 % in storage costs
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SAS and Teradata Bow Joint In-Database Analytics Packages
Shared technology and service offerings target rapid deployment, streamlined data prep and modeling, and faster query performance
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Satyam Created Thousands Of Fake Invoices, Report Says
Scandal-scarred Satyam generated thousands of fake customer invoices as part of a scam to falsely inflate revenue and profits, according to a report
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Amazon Cloud Gains Traction For Enterprise Apps
Some software companies suggest it's a superior alternative to SaaS for hosting their offerings
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Bombay Stock Exchange to Deliver Low Latency Market Data
The Bombay Stock Exchange has announced that BSE-listed equities market data will be made available for the first time on a low latency direct feed in support of the introduction of direct market access trading recently announced by Securities Exchange Board of India
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Hardware Acceleration Is On the Radar Screen, Say Low-Latency Experts
Wall Street is filling up its low-latency toolbox with CEP, co-location and messaging middleware
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Verizon Wireless Tops Call Quality Study
Verizon had fewer complaints from its subscribers, but the difference in network quality is shrinking, according to J.D. Power and Associates
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IBM-Sun Merger Called Anticompetitive
Industry group claims a Big Blue takeover of Sun would result in fewer choices and higher prices in the IT market
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SAS, NetSuite, Salesforce.com Announce Cloud Computing Efforts
SAS Institute will build a $70 million cloud computing facility, and NetSuite joins the platform-as-a-service market
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Sun Unveils Open Cloud Computing Platform
The challenge to Amazon.com's Elastic Compute Cloud and S3 storage services is due out this summer
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Microsoft's Ballmer Signals Renewed Interest In Yahoo
CEO says there is "a good opportunity" for the two companies to complete a search deal
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Microsoft To Offer Open Source Security App For Developers
The company said its upcoming Crash Analyzer software is a heuristics-based tool that improves with additional collaboration
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Reader's Digest Outsources Tech Ops To Indian Firm
HCL Technologies will provide a range of IT services to the publishing company under a seven-year agreement
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IBM-Sun Deal Would Create Business Software Monolith
Official sources won't rule out reports of a pending $6.5 billion deal, while observers say acquisition would make sense
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Cisco Treads into Data Center Grounds with Unified Computing
The new Unified Computing architecture promises to unite compute, network, storage access, and virtualization resources in a single energy efficient system that aims to reduce IT infrastructure costs and complexity, help extend capital assets and improve business agility well into the future
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SBI to Fight Money Laundering with 3i Infotechs AMLOCK Solution
3i Infotech has recently announced that the State Bank of India (SBI) has deployed its anti money laundering (AML) solution to keep a check on suspicious financial transactions
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Indian PM Candidate Promises $200 'Microsoft-Free' Laptop
To secure votes, BJP leader LK Advani is pledging open source computers for 10 million students in his country
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Competitors Jab At Cisco's Unified Data Center System
Cisco's big, ambitious vision puts it in a brave new world of competition, one fraught with challenges and holes competitors are eager to pick at
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Infosys helps Bekins Van Lines transform legacy application
Infosys Technologies recently announced that it has worked with Bekins Van Lines to transform its enterprise application architecture to support new business channels and growth opportunities
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iGate May Bid For Satyam
Rival outsourcer wants updated financial records before proceeding with offer
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BMC CEO: Cisco Bringing iPhone-esque Shake-Up To The Server Market
Its new hardware is built from the ground up to take advantage of virtualization
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Cloudera's Cloud Could Unlock Doors For Open Source
The company's first commercial version of Hadoop allows cloud-powered servers to store petabytes worth of information
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Linux Gaining Strength In Downturn
Reducing costs and stronger interoperability with Windows were listed as the two top issues in a new survey of IT managers
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Interactive Brokers Launches Online Brokerage in India
Interactive Brokers has announced that its recent regulatory approval by the National Stock Exchange of India allows it to offer private Indian national residents and non-Indian national residents market access through its online brokerage platform known as Trader Work Station
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Amazon Offers You Your Own Little Place In The Clouds
The company's Reserved Instances EC2 service allows companies to reserve both processing and storage capacity ahead of time, instead of rolling the dice
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New HP Solutions Target Organizations Need to Standardize Technology and Adopt Flexible Sourcing Options
New offerings developed to help customers change the economics of technology
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Open Source Use On The Rise, But Management Policies Lag
Among the biggest concerns keeping both large and small developers up at night are licensing and support
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Tarang Softwares WayFinder to Help Retail Enterprises with Decision Making
The solution is a decision making tool wherein the marketing/advertising/brand management team can design their own web based survey to collect user responses for the launch of a new product/service
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CSC Offers Enterprise Data Loss Prevention Service
Symantec technology powers security solution that reduces the risk of data loss and its associated compliance reputational and bottom-line risk
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Apple, RIM Eat Into Nokia's Market Share
While Nokia is still the overwhelming leader in the smartphone market, it's feeling increased pressure from high-end devices like the iPhone and the BlackBerry
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Satyam Customers Mull Exit Strategies
U.S. property and casualty firm Selective Insurance Group is latest to eye possible contract termination
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SAP to Virtualize its Infrastructure with Citrix Solutions
The company has also deployed the XenApp application virtualization technology to deliver applications to both its employees and external partners
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EMC CEO: IT Budgets Down, But Virtualization Strong
IT budgets may be suffering, but virtualization and storage products are continuing to do well, according to Joe Tucci, chief executive of EMC
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Developers Combine To Deliver Open Source Trading System
Marketcetera's trading platform marries with Pentaho's BI software and Ingres' database to form an open source-based trading system built on Eclipse
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Network Admins Report Shrinking IT Budgets, Little Hope for IT Efficiency Tools
Survey finds that 62% of network administrators say IT budgets will flatten or diminish this year, less than half see a need for IT management tools
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Symantec announces Release of Norton 360 version 3.0
The latest version of Norton 360 includes security and performance enhancements, and increased online backup flexibility
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IEICI Selects MSSG as Homeland Security Partner
The Israel Export and International Cooperation Institute (IEICI), has selected Mahindra Special Services Group (MSSG), one of Indias leading corporate security risk consulting firm, as the Homeland Security (HLS) partner
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Air India Express Adopts CyberSources Anti-fraud Solution
The solution designed to automate and safeguard online ticketing, provides access to over 150 global validation tests to screen for fraud and determine in real time whether online transactions should be accepted, rejected, or marked for further review
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Symantec Starts With The Endpoint
Symantec is making a more concerted push into desktop virtualization, with a vision for virtualized user "workspaces" that looks bound to compete with established vendors in the market
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Adobe Warns Of Critical Vulnerability In Acrobat, Reader
Users are advised to disable JavaScript until Adobe releases a patch, which may not occur for more than two weeks
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Black Hat: Google Gears Offline Data Vulnerable
Google defends its product after a demonstration of a Web service-based attack using a cross-site scripting vulnerability
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Firms Need to Urgently Eliminate Singe-Points-of-Failures
Buy-side firms are exposed and vulnerable on a daily basis year-round to systemic failure when they fail to simply identify a Single-Points-of-Failure (SPF), says TABB Group analyst Chris McCraley in a new study
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Oracle New Release Helps Firms Comply With Basel II
The solution addresses all major components of ICAAP, including risk assessment, risk monitoring, modeling, stress testing, risk aggregation and allocation as well as regulatory reporting, according to Oracle
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VASCOs Digital Signature Solution for Mobile Phones
Called the DIGIPASS for Mobile 3.0, the device is designed to bring banking level security to corporate environments by offering time and event based two factor authentication and digital signature capability
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Identity Thieves Face Pay Cut
Identity thieves, like other workers in today's troubled economy, have had to endure a pay cut
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Human Error Cited As Greatest Security Risk
Data breaches caused by human error last year accounted for 35.2% of incidents with reported causes
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Slumping Economy Will Drive Malware Threats, Says McAfee
From personalized malware threats, to using the Internet cloud as the main vehicle for carrying out attacks, Malware threats will acquire a new dimension in 2009, predicts McAfee
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Microworld Unveils eScan 10
MicroWorld, recently released its eScan 10, AntiVirus, Content Security and Firewall Software built with proactive technologies and advanced algorithms
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Aladdins SaaS Based HASP SRM Solution
The solution is based on a small client application installed on the end-users PC that communicates over the Internet with the service providers Web application
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AGS Infotech Unveils its Upgraded Digital Signage Software
AGS Infotech, an AGS Group company has recently introduced a new feature in its Digital Signage software called MyOwnChannel
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Data Breaches Booming
The Identity Theft Resource Center says reported data breaches increased by 47% from 2007 to 2008
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MicroWorlds Anti-virus Solution Wins a VB100% Certification
MicroWorld, has recently announced that it has been awarded the VB100% certification for its soon to be released product, eScan Version 10 from Virus Bulletin, a leading UK based malware spam prevention, detection and removal magazine
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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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Wall Street Inspired its Nehalem Chip, Intel Says
New Xeon 5500-based servers said to provide 70% to 125% higher performance — including faster input and output of data — than the previous generation
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Global Hosted Virtual Desktop Market to Surpass $65 Billion in 2013
The worldwide hosted virtual desktop (HVD) market will accelerate through 2013 to reach 49 million units, up from more than 500,000 units in 2009, according to Gartner
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Sun Brings Storage Management to Desktop Virtualization
With the release of VDI 3, Sun is adding the option of a Sun-only virtual desktop software set
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Global Revenue From External Storage Falls In 4Q
Among vendors, EMC maintained its lead in the external disk storage systems market with a 23.3% share, followed by IBM and Hewlett-Packard
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Veeam Offers Free Drag-And-Drop Tool For VMware Software
Veeam Software has upgraded its FastSCP tool to version 3.0. FastSCP is a free tool for moving around VMware ESX Server files
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Server Shipments, Revenue Suffer Double-Digit Declines
Of the top five vendors in terms of revenue, IBM held on to the No. 1 spot, but suffered the biggest decline
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IBM Server Bug Could Cause Data Loss
Big Blue said a firmware update could cause disk drives in some models of business servers to become unresponsive
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Cloud-Based Backup For Microsoft Exchange, SQL Server Released
Open source vendor Zmanda joins the chase for Windows dollars with its product based on Amazon's Simple Storage Service
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Red Hat Outlines Broad Strategy to Boost Virtualization Adoption
With the objective of making further inroads into the enterprise segment, Red Hat recently announced a Virtualization Portfolio of products
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Microsoft Offers 'Appliance-Like' Data Warehouses
Microsoft has teamed with Bull, Dell, and HP to offer appliance-like data warehouses starting at $13,000 per terabyte
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Data Center Managers to Cut Power to Save Money
Findings from a survey at Data Centre World show managers plan to cut power consumption, but not for green reasons
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IBM to Deploy Blade Server Technology for the HFCL Group
The implementation is aimed at helping HPCL reduce the Total Cost of Operation (TCO) and Go Green while increasing efficiency
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Red Hat and Microsoft to Offer Interoperability Across Virtualized Platforms
Red Hat has recently announced the signing of reciprocal agreements with Microsoft to enable increased interoperability for the companies virtualization platforms
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Ubuntu To Be Certified For HP Servers
By bundling the free operating system with HP hardware, smaller companies can sidestep the licensing fees associated with Microsoft's Windows
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Voltaire Plans InfiniBand Switch For IBM BladeCenter
BladeCenter is the brand for IBM's blade server chassis and related technologies. Voltaire claims its custom switch will deliver 100% faster connectivity than current technology
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MySQL Departures May Open Sun To Other Databases
The CEO of EnterpriseDBsaid the departures of MySQL authors David Axmark and Michael Widenius and former MySQL CEO Marten Mickos from Sun Microsystems will open the door a little wider to competing open source systems
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TIBCO Unveils its First Hardware Offering
Called the TIBCO Messaging Appliance P-7500, the new appliance is designed to provide lower latency, improve predictability, and provide increased throughput
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Google Sync Has Microsoft Inside
The push technology in Google Sync, available in beta for the iPhone, Windows Mobile, and other phones, is licensed from Microsoft
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BlackBerry Enterprise Server Revealed
Version 5.0 of RIM's backend server software is expected to improve administrative controls, enhance e-mail capabilities, and offer 450 security policies
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Citrix Promises Data-Intense Virtual Desktops
Intelligence being built into Citrix's XenDesktop 3 would effectively render the end-user presentation on the virtual desktop as an "HD experience."
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IBM Helps Indian Firm Go Green
IBM said Tuesday that it has signed a $3.1 million deal to implement green technologies for Indian financial services company Religare Enterprises Limited
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Footprints Of Google's GDrive Spotted
A reference to Google's long-rumored online storage service was spotted in a JavaScript localization file associated with Google Pack, Google's free software bundle
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10 Cloud Computing Predictions
Vendors are rushing to join Amazon, EMC/VMware, IBM, Google, Microsoft, and Salesforce in the cloud, offering businesses new ways to do more with less
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Indian Data Center Managers Struggle to Meet Rising Demands While Reducing Costs
A recent report from Symantec has observed that data center managers are caught between two goals more demanding user expectations and higher levels of performance, yet reducing costs remain the primary objective for the data center
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Google Claims Data Center Energy Savings
Google said its quarterly energy-weighted average Power Usage Effectiveness fell to 1.16 from 1.22 in the third quarter
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Sun Unveils Green Data Center
Suns new energy-efficient data center in Colorado saves $1 million in energy bills, 11,000 tons of carbon dioxide and 670,000 gallons of water every year, the vendor says
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HP Blurs Data Center Lines With Server/Switch
The ProCurve ONE embedded server blade and Data Center Connection Manager alter the roles various vendors and devices play in the data center
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Citrix Invests In Desktop Hypervisor Startup
Virtual Computer, a startup that has just released in beta its NxTop bare-metal hypervisor for desktops, acquired Citrix as a strategic investor
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Citrix to Develop Virtualization Solutions for Intel Desktop and Laptop Chipsets
Citrix Systems has recently announced an agreement with Intel which will allow the company to develop application and desktop delivery solutions optimized for Intels Core2 desktops and Centrino 2 laptops with Intel vPro technology
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Raritans Upgraded KVM-over-IP Switch for Data Centers
The solution is aimed at making data center blade and rack-mounted server management efficient through a single easy-to-use interface
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HP Extends Orchestration Of Virtual, Physical Servers
With two additions to its Adaptive Infrastructure management products, HP is upping the ante in the race to manage physical and virtual data center servers from the same console
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APW President Systems Unveils its New Cooling System for Data Centers
APW President Systems has recently introduced its cold aisle containment system for data centers called COOL WAY
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State of the Data Center: Overworked and Underfunded
Survey finds 75% of data center managers workloads are increasing, yet cutting costs is their top priority this year
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