Data protection and encryption firm Credant joins Dell's expanding security portfolio Dell has made yet another security acquisition, snapping up data protection form Credant Technologies for an undisclosed sum. Dell says Credant ...
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The Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) has slammed what it calls "an underlying problem with data protection in local government". It comes after four councils were fined a combined £300,000 for losing personal data. Leeds City ...
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ISACA has outlined what it believes will be the key trends organisations will face in 2013.With the financial climate set to remain in'crisis mode'for the foreseeable future,greater collaboration,cheaper infrastructure,information overload ...
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cc today announced that its mobile device management (MDM) tool now supports the new OS X Mountain Lion operating system for Macs, released on Wednesday. The company cited fast adoption of Macs in business as the reason it moved out of its ...
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Dell has tapped a former Hewlett-Packard executive to run its server, networking and storage division, an important area for Dell as it tries to expand its data center business and reduce its dependence on PCs. Marius Haas was head of ...
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Dell mapped out the next phase of its data centre strategy on Thursday with new hardware and software that it says will make it faster and cheaper for customers to deploy new hardware and applications. The new products include the Active ...
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Dell announces Quest Software acquisition… finally Dell has entered into a definitive agreement to buy desktop virtualisation-related vendor Quest Software for $2.36bn (pound 1.51bn). Under terms of the agreement, Dell Inc. will ...
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Sales of high-end,touchscreen PCs running Windows 8 have been running"well above forecast",according to Erik Dithmer,vice president of end user computing at hardware vendor Dell. According to Dithmer,sales of the Windows 8-based Dell ...
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The growing use of virtualisation has really helped many organisations. Not only have the average utilisation rates of servers and storage improved, but the use of applications and other software packaged ready for installation – ...
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Dell has completed its acquisition of management software vendor Quest Software, the firm has announced. The final stage of the move comes almost three months after it was first revealed that Dell planned to acquire Quest for $2.4bn ...
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Dell announced that former HP Networking Division head Marius Haas has joined the firm on the same day as it released disappointing Q2 financial results. Haas will succeed Brad Anderson, who has been Dell's Enterprise Solutions chief ...
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Extending its line of identity management software, Quest Software has released an application to help administrators more easily control who accesses documents on the corporate network. While enterprise applications such as Oracle's ...
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Dell has laid out a plan to dramatically grow its software business by targeting mid-sized companies that it says are under-served by rivals such as IBM, Hewlett-Packard and Oracle. Its plan is to target four key areas: security, ...
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