Tuned, pretested DR support capabilities and services are now helping midsize company managers reduce the risks of an extended business outage due to disaster, and at more reasonable costs than ever before. Today, it is possible to put in place disaster recovery technology and practices that may cost less per user supported than older technology […]
Posted on April 7th, 2011 by admin
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ACM (the Association for Computing Machinery) Opens in a new window announced today that Frans Kaashoek of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, is the recipient of the 2010 ACM-Infosys Foundation Award in the Computing Sciences for his contributions to the structuring, robustness, scalability, and security of software systems underlying many applications. Kaashoek’s advances have led […]
Posted on April 6th, 2011 by admin
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Business software maker Epicor this morning announced that it has agreed to be acquired by private equity firm Apax Partners. The transaction is valued at approximately $976 million. In a separate announcement, Apax said it will also acquire Activant Solutions, a provider of business management software solutions that was controlled by investment funds affiliated with […]
Posted on April 5th, 2011 by admin
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Following its $2.25 billion acquisition of Isilon, infrastructure giant EMC is making another purchase today— network security software company NetWitness. EMC’s acquisition of NetWitness closed on April 1, 2011 (clearly neither company wanted to make the announcement on April Fool’s Day) and NetWitness will operate as a part of RSA, the security division of EMC. […]
Posted on April 4th, 2011 by admin
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