Friday, March 30, 2012

IT News Head Lines (ComputerWorld) 3/30/2012





Druva, TeamDrive update data services
Cloud file-sharing service provider Druva and backup company TeamDrive announced upgrades to their respective mobile data services that include either a combined repository for all data regardless of the device or security through encryption.

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Microsoft releases ASP.Net Web API, Razor source code
The source code for ASP.Net Web API and Razor are being made available via an Apache 2.0 license

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Dell ends smartphone sales in the US
Dell has stopped selling smartphones in the U.S. as it tweaks its mobile strategy to focus more on emerging markets and higher-margin products.

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How Secure Is the Cloud? IT Pros Speak Up
For CIOs and IT professionals, the potential of the cloud is clear: transforming IT from cost center to business engine. It promises the agility and scalability that tech dreams are made of. By leveraging the cloud, you can complete typical IT tasks in hours rather than weeks or months, allowing you to dedicate staff to innovation, not just maintaining systems and infrastructure.

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Red Hat joins the billion-dollar club
It's official: Red Hat is the first open-source software company to generate a billion dollars in annual revenue.

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Symform Offers Free Peer-to-Peer Storage
Much as large computing projects can make use of your free CPU cycles, Symform leverages your free hard drive space and that of others into a secure, encrypted online storage service. Quite clever actually, and even better--it's free (except, of course, for the electricity and storage space you contribute). You can be a leech and simply use the 10GB of free storage offered, but up to 100GB of online storage is available if you contribute. You can up that to 200GB by referring friends.

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AOL unplugs 10,000 servers, saves $5M
AOL decommissioned almost 10,000 servers and saved $5 million along the way to winning a contest that highlights the cost of running inefficient or underutilized IT equipment.

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Box OneCloud Makes Box a Must-Have iPad App
Box.com unveiled OneCloud today--a new service designed to unite the data from various mobile apps. Box OneCloud promises to make it easier to manage data on mobile devices and be productive from virtually anywhere. OneCloud resolves a fundamental limitation of the Apple iPad, and makes Box a must-have app.

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Google launches e-discovery option for Apps suite
Google is now offering customers of its Apps for Business communications and collaboration suite an optional service that automatically captures, archives and indexes their employees' e-mail messages and IM chat sessions.

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