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Posted in E-Week on February 1st, 2012 by E-Week
News Analysis: EnterpriseDB is hoping entice more enterprises into cloud computing with a database-as-a-service offering geared to challenge Oracle in the database market. - EnterpriseDB has announced a new database-as-a-service offering, which will bring EnterpriseDBs PostgreSQL and PostgreSQL Plus database products to the cloud.
The company has already forged agreements with leading cloud services hosts to immediately offer EnterpriseDB's PostgreSQL Plus Cloud Ser...
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Posted in E-Week on February 1st, 2012 by E-Week
Included is real-time monitoring, secure logging and more than 65 report templates that give businesses insight as to what is going in and out of their network and by whom. - WatchGuard
Technologies, a provider of business security solutions, today unveiled its
latest small-business firewall, the XTM 33. Ideal for midmarket businesses with
five to 30 users, the XTM 33 appliance provides enhanced network protection in
an all-in-one, small form factor security applianc...
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Posted in E-Week on February 1st, 2012 by E-Week
With the integration of the Bria 3 softphone, Whaleback's CrystalBlue customers can use tablets, smartphones and laptops to conduct business anywhere. - Whaleback
Managed Services, a specialist in managed business services, announced it is
extending its unified communications mobility capability within its CrystalBlue
Cloud-based Managed Voice Services to tablets and smartphones, by leveraging
the Bria 3 softphone from long-standing partner Coun...
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Posted in E-Week on February 1st, 2012 by E-Week
Google's Chrome browser growth leveled off through January, ending the first month of the year with just under 19 percent market share. Microsoft's Internet Explorer grew to 53 percent. - Google's
(NASDAQ:GOOG) Chrome is having an inauspicious start to 2012, slipping
a tad to 18.9 percent market share through January from 19.1 percent
through December, according to Net
Applications.
Mozilla's
Firefox browser, meanwhile, continued its slide, dropping nearly a full
percentage po...
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Posted in E-Week on February 1st, 2012 by E-Week
Red Hat announces that it has extended the life cycle of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 5 and 6 from seven to 10 years to give users more flexibility in long-term operating system deployments. - Red Hat announced it has extended the
production life cycle of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 and 6 from seven to 10
years in response to enterprise customer demand.
With this move, enterprise customers
now have additional deployment alternatives for their Red Hat Enterprise Linux
operating system ...
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Posted in E-Week on February 1st, 2012 by E-Week
The Linux Foundation has named Greg Kroah-Hartman as a fellow of the organization, where he joins a small group that includes Linux creator Linus Torvalds. - The Linux Foundation, the nonprofit
organization dedicated to accelerating the growth of Linux, has announced that
Greg Kroah-Hartman is joining the organization as a fellow.
Kroah-Hartman
is among a small and distinguished group of software developers who maintain
Linux at the kernel level, fo...
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Posted in E-Week on February 1st, 2012 by E-Week
Facebook is girding for an IPO filing Feb. 1, setting it up for more intense competition with online ad and search giant Google in 2012. - Buzz that Facebook will file for an initial public offering
(IPO) Feb. 1 has marketing and advertising experts expecting the
social network to challenge Google (NASDAQ:GOOG) at a time when the search
giant is trying to ramp up its own ad targeting efforts.
While Google has commanded the mar...
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Posted in E-Week on February 1st, 2012 by E-Week
Samsung's Galaxy Tab 10.1 is still subject to a sales ban in Germany, according to a new court ruling. Apple and Samsung continue to battle in courtrooms worldwide. - A
Dusseldorf court declined to overturn a ruling that bars Samsung's Galaxy Tab
10.1 tablet from sale in Germany. Apple and Samsung have been locked in a
particularly vicious legal battle in that country, with both sides suing each
other over supposed patent violations.
Late
in 2011, Apple's l...
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Posted in E-Week on February 1st, 2012 by E-Week
NEWS ANALYSIS: Apple CEO Tim Cook has a long year ahead of him. There are a host of mistakes he just can't make if he wants Apple to stay successful. - Apple CEO Tim Cook has a difficult job.
Looking back at the history of his company, there has been one CEO co-founder
Steve Jobs who has been able to lead Apple to greatness. Other executives at
the helm after Jobs was forced out in 1985 came perilously close to driving the
company into the grou...
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Posted in E-Week on February 1st, 2012 by E-Week
The E-Class system can support up to 500TB of capacity in one logical pool while consuming as little as 5 watts of electricity per terabyte. - Nimbus
Data Systems, which makes storage systems that ostensibly are intelligent
enough to think for themselves, Jan. 31 launched what it described as the
industry's first fully redundant, multiprotocol solid-state storage array.
The
new E-Class Flash Memory System, loaded exclusively with ente...
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