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• Lenovo announces its Tablet strategy in India

  Added 11th Oct 2011

  Lenovo announced its strategy for the tablet market. As part of this global strategy, over the next six months, Lenovo will introduce tablets of varying sizes and platforms, thus building a winning range catering to individual needs of its customers.

• F5 helps communications service providers with new DNS services

  Added 11th Oct 2011

  F5 Networks announced that its intelligent, carrier-grade Domain Name System (DNS) services enable Communications Service Providers (CSPs) to scale their DNS infrastructures more efficiently, significantly reduce costs, and more quickly deploy critical new revenue-generating services.

• Apple competitors need a long-term strategy says analyst

  Added 3rd Oct 2011

  Apple's competitors need to stop taking a short-term approach to fighting Cupertino and develop a long-term strategy.That's according to mobile industry analyst Ian Fogg, who thinks too many of Apple's competitors try to take a 'me-too' approach, mimicking Apple's new products.

• Hurd sees long Sparc, Solaris roadmap

  Added 29th Sep 2011

  When Oracle acquired Sun in early 2010, it was buying a distressed company that had just abandoned a five-year effort to develop a 16-core Sparc chip, code-named the Rock, as the broader market was increasingly turning to lower cost x86 systems.

• Without CEO Bartz, will Yahoo rebuild or sell?

  Added 28th Sep 2011

  If Yahoo's board does want to sell, it won't be easy to find the right fit, though, added Olds. With a $17 billion market capitalization, Yahoo is still a huge company that could be unwieldy for another company to take on.

• Industrialised low-cost IT services to transform the IT services market : Gartner

  Added 27th Sep 2011

  Chief information officers should consider adopting industrialised, low-cost IT services to reduce the cost of “running the business”, while controlling the risk, integration and customisation issues, to increase the business value of IT and enhance its perception by the business

• Seclore releases browser based IRM system

  Added 23rd Sep 2011

  Seclore, announced the release of the world's first completely browser based IRM system. Seclore FileSecure, "The most integration friendly IRM system in the world" will now come with Seclore FileSecure WebConnect for secure IRM protected content access within the browser, says the company.

• Need switches? Buy now, report says

  Added 23rd Sep 2011

  If you're in the market for Ethernet switches, now's the time to buy. According to a quarterly report from Infonetics, the price of Ethernet switches is declining in the mid-single digits over the course of this year, amounting to 10% to 20% drops overall.

• Pitney Bowes launches Rival Productivity Series inserting System in India

  Added 21st Sep 2011

  Pitney Bowes launched the Rival Productivity Series inserting system (RPS) in India along with other global markets. According to the company, this product will provide mid-volume transactional mailers, a powerful and cost-efficient solution, which will enable and facilitate high-value customer communications.

• Cisco and Microsoft cooperate to bring network-layer management to Hyper-V

  Added 21st Sep 2011

  The first is a version of Cisco's Nexus 1000V Series switch designed to support Hyper-V. It is a distributed virtual switch that fits Hyper-V virtual machines with virtual Ethernet cards that can be managed via another component of the switch, Cisco's Virtual Supervisor Module.

• Gmail threatens Microsoft in enterprises, says Gartner

  Added 20th Sep 2011

  Gartner predicts that Google's share of the enterprise email market currently "hovers" at around 1%, but it will reach 10% within a few years. Google is gaining ground with enterprises that have 5,000 or more seats, Gartner said, naming several public and private sector users with more than 10,000 Gmail seats.

• IT departments need to lead Cloud projects: Deloitte

  Added 20th Sep 2011

  Organisations that ignore the IT department when approving Cloud projects will face more than just security challenges. Deloitte Technology Risk Partner, Alastair Banks said that all parties, including risk and audit staff, should be involved when deciding to investigate moving data or services into the Cloud.

• Oracle further commercializes MySQL database

  Added 19th Sep 2011

  Oracle has added additional commercial extensions to the enterprise edition of its open-source MySQL database, further differentiating it from the community version available to anyone at no charge. A new thread pooling capability can provide a significant" performance and scalability boost.

• Why Windows 8 on ARM matters

  Added 19th Sep 2011

  If Windows 8 works successfully on ARM-processor-equipped systems, expect to see thin, light, and innovative devices coming our way. This includes ultra-thin laptops with impressive battery life, and super-light, large-screen tablets.

• Value of Intel-Google partnership on smartphones remains to be seen

  Added 19th Sep 2011

  Intel promised a smartphone based on its Atom processor will hit the market in the first quarter of 2012, while Google announced plans to make future Android releases work on Intel's mobile chips. Some Analysts said this partnership on smartphones has a subtle meaning built of on earlier partnerships between the two.

• Windows Server 8: Massive storage enhancements ahead

  Added 16th Sep 2011

  The killer-feature is the new and built-in data deduplication, which detects duplicate data in files and folders, puts it in a separate store (System Volume Information) and simply gets rid of the redundant bytes.

• HP optimistic about growth in imaging and printing sector

  Added 12th Sep 2011

  HP has put a lot of emphasis on 'optimism', 'innovation' and 'growth' throughout his two-hour long presentation in which he chalked out the company's printing business strategy and introduced new products.

• VMware, Symantec work up cloud-based single sign-on security services

  Added 9th Sep 2011

  Symantec and VMware are separately working on their own approaches to cloud-based SSO and identity management, Symantec with its "Project Ozone" and VMware with "Project Horizon."

• AMD ships 16-core server chips, servers due in Q4

  Added 9th Sep 2011

  The chip will be part of the Opteron 6200 chip family and will be based on the company's new Bulldozer microarchitecture. AMD has said that Bulldozer processors will be up to 50 percent faster and include more memory throughput than current 12-core Opteron 6100 chips.

• What HP's New Strategy Means for IT Outsourcing Customers?

  Added 8th Sep 2011

  HP is clearly attempting to model itself after outsourcing powerhouse IBM, says Adam Strichman, founder of outsourcing consultancy Sanda Partners. He notes that Big Blue continues to bundle the hardware it no longer owns into its outsourcing deals.