Brocade has bought Vyatta to boost its talent in the growing space of software-defined networking (SDN). Brocade did not reveal the value of the acquisition but confirmed the deal was all cash. Vyatta is known for its network ...
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Dell has announced an upgrade to its Dell Compellent Storage Center SAN operating system (OS) that nudges the array into enterprise SAN territory. The company also said changes to the Storage Center OS laid the ground for all-flash arrays ...
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Cisco has acquired vCider, a provider of virtual network overlay technology to support its Open Network Environment (ONE) strategy. VCider will become part of the company’s cloud computing division and support Cisco’s role in ...
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Irish multinational drug maker United Drug has implemented Silver Peak WAN optimisation devices that have improved application performance, upgraded disaster recovery provision and saved on bandwidth costs to the tune of €30,000 per ...
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VMware has fleshed out its desktop virtualisation strategy with a suite of products designed to make desktop computing more manageable by using workspace aggregation. As 30 June, 2014 – the end of support date for Windows XP – ...
Hewlett-Packard has no plans to launch a smartphone next year but will need to sell one eventually to avoid missing out on "a huge segment of the population," CEO Meg Whitman said Wednesday, clarifying remarks she made last month. Whitman ...
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Hewlett-Packard, ZTE and mobile operators such as AT&T and SK Telecom have pooled their LTE patents under a program led by Via Licensing, aiming to provide a one-stop shop for companies to license their technology. Via Licensing organized ...
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A group of about 30 young people will attend a cyber security boot camp next month set up by the organisations responsible for the Cyber Security Challenge . The boot camp is receiving input and support from the Metropolitan Police ...
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Further emphasizing Larry Ellison's fresh enthusiasm for cloud computing, Oracle has updated its Solaris Unix operating system with a number of new capabilities to give it greater cloud capabilities, including a new distributed storage file ...
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Most firms have inadequate defences for web applications, a study has revealed. The reason is that defences tend to be geared around attack averages, said Amichai Shulman, chief technology officer at security firm Imperva. But the ...
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IT company HP launched its Indigo-powered digital printing capabilities at a customer open house event at the premises of Wipf, an industrial holding company specialized in flexible packaging, in Volketswil, Switzerland. Wipf, very ...
As more traditional business functions become cloud offerings, there are certain questions organisations need to ask before moving to the cloud. This was the message of Mike Lynch, the former CEO of HP-owned Autonomy, who left the company ...
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Microsoft may have known about last week's Internet Explorer (IE) zero-day bug for some time, according to its security advisory. The vulnerability, which was patched Friday in an emergency, or "out-of-band," update, first became public ...
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When Ken Stephens, a senior vice president of Xerox Cloud Services, tried to hire a product manager from IBM recently, he had quite a shock. "I offered him a 40 percent raise," Stevens said in an interview. "But then IBM came back and gave ...
Hewlett-Packard said Wednesday that it would take an $8 billion charge in its third fiscal quarter owing to weakness in its enterprise services division. The writedown is technically for "the impairment of goodwill" associated with HP's ...
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