Over 120 companies in Cairo’s smart valley are impacted by the closure of the Internet by the Egyptian government. Egypt’s move to block Internet access prompted Microsoft to respond. Microsoft said it “is constantly assessing the impact of the unrest and Internet connection issues on our properties and services. What limited service the company as […]
Posted on January 31st, 2011 by admin
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While the cost of advanced storage solutions continues to decline, costs like power and cooling, to say nothing about management complexity, can make life more difficult and expensive for IT operations. The growing number of sophisticated workloads can make it tempting to “throw more iron at the problem,” but IT professionals are increasingly adopting the […]
Posted on January 29th, 2011 by admin
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Accenture has announced the following changes to its executive leadership, effective March 1: Sander van ’t Noordende, 47, has been named group chief executive of Accenture’s Management Consulting growth platform, succeeding Mark Foster who is retiring from the company. Mr. van ’t Noordende is currently group chief executive of Accenture’s Resources operating group, a position […]
Posted on January 21st, 2011 by admin
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Sonian, a startup that specializes in cloud-powered information archiving solutions, this morning announced that it has secured $9 million in Series B funding. Previous backers Summerhill Venture Partners and Prism VentureWorks were joined by strategic investors Amazon.com and Webroot. Sonian says it will use the funds for continued research and development for its information archiving […]
Posted on January 20th, 2011 by admin
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Salesforce is announcing a new key hire today—former Microsoft vet Matt Miszewski will join the CRM giant as Senior Vice President Global Public Sector. In his new role, Miszewski will help lead Salesforce.com’s global public sector initiatives to help governments adopt cloud computing. Miszewski was formerly the general manager of Worldwide Government for Microsoft, where […]
Posted on January 20th, 2011 by admin
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Data center automation is a hulking $14 billion segment of the enterprise IT industry dominated by hulking giants like IBM, HP (through its $1.6 billion Opsware acquisition), BMC (through its $800 million BladeLogic acquisition in 2008), and VMWare. Companies often have thousands of servers, both physical and virtual, that need to be managed, and on […]
Posted on January 19th, 2011 by admin
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IBM released strong fourth quarter earnings today, posting record revenue of $29 billion, up 7 percent from the fourth quarter in 2009, and surpassing analyst expectations. EPS were $4.18, up 16 percent; an increase of 16 percent from the same quarter in 2009. Big Blue also posted record net income in the fourth quarter, $5.3 billion, […]
Posted on January 19th, 2011 by admin
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File-sharing services are getting pretty sophisticated these days, using the cloud to do a lot of the heavy lifting when it comes to not only transferring files, but managing them as well. ShareFile, a fast-growing company founded five years ago which is based in Raleigh, North Carolina, is releasing a new product called Sync today […]
Posted on January 18th, 2011 by admin
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Businesses are increasingly dependent on uninterrupted operations and increased storage, but traditional capacity-based methods such as tape backup, duplication, vaulting, and others don’t efficiently scale across a distributed enterprise. In addition, companies find they have too much data to protect, and that an effective disaster recovery strategy is too important to neglect. Also, as neither […]
Posted on January 14th, 2011 by admin
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NetApp this morning announced that it is to acquire Akorri Networks, which enables IT organizations to manage their infrastructure as a service. Terms of the agreement were not disclosed, apart from the fact that it concerns an all-cash transaction. Akorri is a privately held company headquartered in Littleton, Massachusetts, which has raised $48.7 million in […]
Posted on January 13th, 2011 by admin
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