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8th December 2009 Archive

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  • IBM beams in Tivoli monitoring from the cloud

    Web watches over on-premise infrastructure

    IBM has been a busy bee floating chunks of its big, complicated, on-premise IT management software into the cloud in order to woo small- and mid-sized businesses. The latest to receive a web-based treatment is IBM Tivoli Live, a web-based service that takes several bits of the company's on-premise Tivoli monitoring products …

    Software & Security 8 Dec 05:02

  • Symantec's bumper bonus bells and whistles

    Veritas Storage Foundation adds lightness

    Symantec has boosted its Storage Foundation product to store less duplicate data, integrate with Hyper-V and use solid state storage better. It has also added failover to its Cluster File System Veritas Storage Foundation (VSF) runs on servers and manages storage arrays, provisioning storage capacity and volumes, for …

    Enterprise 8 Dec 07:02

  • Microsoft and NetApp find love in adversity

    Comment Eyes meet across a crowded market

    It wouldn't be surprising if NetApp and Microsoft started collaborating more closely, especially over cloud computing, now that VMware, EMC and Cisco are in a 3-way marriage, and Microsoft is hustling Hyper-V out onto the data centre streets, with Azure following behind. The dynamics of server virtualisation, data centre …

    Enterprise 8 Dec 11:00

  • FAST takes its sweet time

    Key to EMC's future, but in no big hurry

    EMC has announced the first deliveries of its FAST (fully-automated storage tiering) technology to move lumps of storage between solid state drives (SSD) and spinning disk in its high-end, mid-range and iSCSI/filer arrays. FAST moves volumes or LUNs (Logical UNits) of storage between SSD, Fibre Channel and SATA hard disk …

    Enterprise 8 Dec 13:19

  • SecureWorks snaps up dns

    UK-based security consultancy acquired by US firm

    Security firm SecureWorks has acquired UK-based managed security services and consulting outfit dns. Terms of the deal, announced Tuesday, were undisclosed. dns has been providing managing security devices in the UK and throughout EMEA for the last ten years. The firm also runs an identity and access management service. In a …

    Software & Security 8 Dec 15:11

  • Microsoft and NetApp pledge true love, for 3 years

    The bells are ringing, but not for Azure

    Microsoft and NetApp have struck a 3-year strategic alliance centred on virtualised server environments and technology integration. The tie-up was not unexpected. Azure, Microsoft's cloud service, does not figure in this. Redmond and Sunnyvale are going to collaborate for three years to integrate their technologies for …

    Enterprise 8 Dec 15:57

  • Google betas Chrome for Mac, Linux

    And 300-plus extensions

    Google (finally) released beta versions of its Chrome browser for Mac and Linux on Tuesday, along with over 300 extensions for Windows and Linux. Sorry, Mac users - extensions "aren't quite beta-quality on Mac yet", according to a Google blog posting announcing the new-release trifecta. Google offers an introductory video for …

    Software & Security 8 Dec 19:56

  • Jaguar stumbles on stairway to Google cloud

    Vehicle icon in self-inflicted GFail

    In October, Google rolled out UK vehicle maker Jaguar Land Rover as a corporate poster child for the much-debated switch to Google Apps, its Microsoft-battling suite of web-based businessware. But according to employees, Jaguar's initial migration from Microsoft Exchange to the so-called Google cloud didn't quite go as planned …

    Software & Security 8 Dec 21:14

  • Media monsters float co-op ebook 'storefront'

    Circling the publishing wagons

    A quintet of publishing heavyweights have come together to develop a "digital storefront" for the delivery of media to portable devices. According to a joint statement released on Tuesday, content in that shared storefront would include magazine and newspaper "reading experiences", and eventually "books, comic books, blogs and …

    Enterprise 8 Dec 23:11

  • Cisco: We're not a smartphone maker

    Or a storage biz

    Cisco isn't interested in competing against Apple or Research in Motion by selling a smartphone of its own, the company's CEO John Chambers said on Tuesday. During an analyst day media lunch at Cisco's HQ in San Jose, the company's top boss said it's content just soaking in profits from the added network demand smartphones are …

    Enterprise 8 Dec 23:42

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