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Lexmark Hits Ink Cartridge Cloners With Suit
Added 26th Aug 2010Printer giant Lexmark has filed a patent infringement suit against 24 companies, accusing them of importing and selling replacement inkjet and toner cartridges that violate its intellectual property.
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7 Secrets For Sustaining Success For Solution Providers
Added 25th Aug 2010Solution providers across
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Accton launches ‘Edge-Core’ brand for Enterprise Networking in India
Added 25th Aug 2010Enterprise Switch /Enterprise WLAN for enterprises and Carrier Access, Carrier Aggregation and Enterprise Switch for Carrier/ISP would be the key product offerings under this brand. Edge-Core aims to be complete end-to-end solution ranges from access to backbone networks to fulfill next generation network requirements. The objective is to engage with system integrators who are into business of ‘solution selling’ networking offerings to corporate customers.
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NetApp Appoints Avnet as Distributor In India
Added 25th Aug 2010NetApp announced a distribution agreement in
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Like EMC, HP Pushes Around Smaller Rival In Bidding War
Added 25th Aug 2010The HP/Dell bidding war over storage vendor 3Par was a repeat of last year's high-profile battle between EMC and NetApp. HP has offered $1.6 billion to purchase 3Par, topping Dell's bid of $1.15 billion. If the HP/Dell contest follows the same pattern, Dell will soon raise the bid closer to $2 billion.
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Study: 57% Of Companies See Cloud As A Transformational Technology
Added 25th Aug 2010According to the research, 57% of US enterprises do see cloud as a technology that drives business transformation and innovation, while only 8% see it as hype or as a technology that has no place in their business.
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AMD Details Next-Generation Server Chip Architecture
Added 25th Aug 2010Processors based on Bulldozer will include more cores and perform up to 50% faster than chips based on earlier architectures, said Dina McKinney, Vice President, Design Engineering, AMD. The new design squeezes out more performance by bringing flexibility to the way tasks are executed across processor cores.
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Datacenter Switch Maker Teams With Vmware To Optimize Gear For Virtualization
Added 25th Aug 2010The company introduced VM Tracer, a software enhancement to its EOS operating system that is intended to discover virtual machines and dynamically segment them into virtual LANs. VM Tracer also auto configures VMs based on port profiles defines in VMware's ESX server; and supports multiple VMware vCenter administration stations.
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Novell Announces General Availability of Novell Cloud Security Service
Added 24th Aug 2010Novell Cloud Security Service gives cloud providers the ability to deliver secure access and compliance in the cloud for their customers and Novell is the only vendor to offer this integrated capability, which helps organizations manage complex security and compliance requirements through a cost-effective and easy-to-use suite of products, reportedly.
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HP Offers $1.6 Billion For 3PAR, Tops Dell's Offer
Added 24th Aug 2010The offer will force 3PAR's board to reconsider its merger agreement with Dell as the HP offer is a "superior proposal," according to Shane Robison, Executive Vice President and Chief Strategy and Technology Officer, HP.
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Study: Infrastructure Services Users Worry Less About Security
Added 24th Aug 2010Companies that are considering using IaaS ranked virtualization security as the top barrier to adoption, Yankee found. But companies that have already started using IaaS ranked five other issues as more important than security. Those issues include regulatory compliance, challenges of migrating existing data and employee resistance.
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IDC: Virtualization Helps Boost Switch Sales
Added 24th Aug 2010Ethernet switch revenue grew by 32.7% year-over-year during the second quarter, helped by the growing popularity of applications such as virtualization and voice over IP (Internet Protocol), according to IDC's Worldwide Quarterly Enterprise Networks Tracker.
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Industry Association Launches Cloud Backup Group
Added 24th Aug 2010The Storage Network Industry Association (SNIA) has developed a new special interest group called Cloud Backup and Recovery (BUR) aimed at vendors exploring that particular area of technology.One of the key tasks for the new group would be the formation of new standards as this was an area that needed a common approach.
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LANDesk Software to be Acquired by Thoma Bravo
Added 24th Aug 2010The move aims to accelerate LANDesk’s revenue growth and solidify its leadership position in delivering an integrated portfolio for simplifying the management of desktops, servers and mobile devices across the full spectrum of an organization’s IT environment.
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Intel-McAfee Deal : IT industry sees emerging trend of defense-in-depth
Added 23rd Aug 2010The security vendors conceded that the rationale behind the eye popping deal was to make security an all- pervasive feature of Intel processors.“It’s indeed getting harder for single-product vendors in today’s scenario. Offering products with defense-in-depth is now a well accepted IT market strategy,” substantiates Tony Scott, Corporate VP & CIO, Microsoft
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It's a 'Wait-&-Watch' for Indian CIOs on Intel's McAfee acquisition
Added 23rd Aug 2010The big debate raging in the CIOsphere today is “Does this mean antivirus and anti-malware will now be decided at the firmware level and will it start coming as an Intel in-build?" CIOs are divided as to what this big move will mean to the industry. Some feel that Intel is moving into application and handheld space. But rest assured everyone’s keeping their ears wide open.
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Intel-McAfee Deal Not Making Any Sense, Say Analysts
Added 23rd Aug 2010In the mean time the deal is expected create waves in the security industry. Analysts feel that McAfee’s competitors like Symantec and Trend Micro will leave no stone unturned in trying to woo its existing customers. “We expect that customers that have already been angling to jump ship will use this deal as an excuse to accelerate those plans,” says Andrew Jaquith, Senior Analyst, Forrester Research.
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Tally Launches ERP for Indian SMEs
Added 23rd Aug 2010A large number of enterprises and SMBs use accounting software by Tally Solutions. "Organizations are well acquainted with product quality, brand recall and service support since years. A slew of important functions position it a good ERP solution for a typical SMB customer,"said Shoib Ahmed,President,Tally Solutions.
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Intel- McAfee : The Deal Rationale is Not Quite Clear says IDC India
Added 20th Aug 2010That said, the acquisition seems to be more of a futuristic move as mobile non-PC devices, automobile gadgets, and consumer electronics products hardly face security threats of the kind and order faced by PCs. And this is hardly a key criterion for justifying the current move,says IDC India.
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Intel-McAfee Deal Baffles Security Analysts
Added 20th Aug 2010At first glance, acquisition of security software firm appears to make little sense for chip giant Intel. The deal could prove beneficial to McAfee rivals like Symantec, Sophos and Trend Micro, at least in the short term. Each can be expected to move quickly to try and take advantage of a distracted McAfee prior to the deal's closing and during the integration phase, say analysts.