Cisco is looking to tap into the SMB unified communications market with two ‘enterprise-grade’ systems priced for the more cost-sensitive segment. The announcements involve the Cisco Business Edition 3000 and the Cisco Business Edition 6000. Now shipping, pricing for the 3000 starts at $ 100/user for a 100-user system, and the 6000 starts at $ 158/user for a 225-user system.
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Cisco Dials Up Midmarket UC
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It’s Time To End The Wireless Client Insanity
What would our wireless networks be without clients? Things can be quirky enough with power-save settings, local RF conditions, and general machine health and resources when it comes to wireless performance, but add to the mix the general confusion that the wireless client adapter industry has created, and you can hardly fault your users for not understanding the nuances of different wireless adapters in a given network.
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Internap Unwraps First OpenStack Cloud Service
Internap Network Services, which launched its XIP Internet traffic accelerator service 18 months ago with the claim that it could improve performance of enterprise Web applications by up to 400%, is extending its reach to the public and private cloud markets with two new offerings. It calls its Open Public Cloud the world’s first commercially available OpenStack service, while its new Vmware-based public and private cloud services are starting off with VMware vCloud Powered status.
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Compuware Launches Major Upgrade To Gomez APM Platform
Compuware Corporation is looking to separate itself from the likes of IBM, CA, Quest, HP, OpTier and Opnet with a major upgrade of its Gomez APM platform. The company says the Fall 2011 release features eight industry-first innovations across its SaaS and on-premises APM products, including the most comprehensive mobile and streaming media performance monitoring and testing network; Google Mobile Page Speed integration; the industry’s most advanced end-user experience performance analytics; and further integration with the recently acquired dynaTrace for deep application visibility and diagnostics.
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DPMS Pioneer Bocada Adds Virtualization, Opens Up SMB Markets
Calling itself the leader in data protection management software, Bocada is addressing a gap in backup management reporting caused by the growth of virtualization. Vision is a DPMS product that manages data protection in virtual environments and it is available as a standalone offering or in a module for the company’s Prism product that bridges the gap between physical and virtual protection.
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Data Deduplication And SSDs: Two Great Tastes That Taste Great Together
It should come as no surprise to even the most casual observer that data deduplication and SSDs have been the most significant technologies in storage over the past few years. They have however, until recently, been applied to very different problems. The solid state storage story has been about performance but data deduplication, while it has begun to sneak into primary storage, was about efficiency and mostly relegated to secondary storage systems.
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Smooth Data Center Upgrades Depend On Application Discovery And Dependency Tracking Like HP’s DDMA
Many data centers running today are seven to 10 years old, and some are even older. When new applications enter the picture, the process of identifying existing applications and their dependency on other applications and the overall IT infrastructure can be daunting, and errors can result in costly downtime. That’s why a critical part of a data center transformation project is the use of application discovery and dependency software.
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What If Steve Jobs Is Right?
Apple has been engaged in heated legal battles around the world claiming that Android smartphones and tablets infringe on its patents. Android loyalists see the legal attacks as a desperate, oppressive move by Apple to stifle competition, but perhaps the success of Android is a function of the ways it “borrows” Apple intellectual property.
According to leaked excerpts from the Steve Jobs biography which will be officially released tomorrow, Jobs is quoted saying, “I’m going to destroy Android, because it’s a stolen product. I’m willing to go thermonuclear war on this.”
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New Service Connects BlackBerry to Office 365
BlackBerry smartphones are a staple of mobile communications for many businesses, but some of the key productivity features have not been available to small and medium businesses. RIM is solving that, though, with the introduction of BlackBerry Cloud Services for Microsoft Office 365.
BlackBerry Cloud Services for Microsoft Office 365 is a cloud-based service hosted by RIM that extends the capabilities of BlackBerry smartphones by connecting to and integrating with Office 365. Mobile users will be able to connect with the Microsoft Exchange Online data such as email, calendar, contacts, tasks and notes from their BlackBerry smartphones.
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HP: It’s Just A Flesh Wound!
Hewlett-Packard says that it has decided to stay in the PC business, and like a bad knockoff of the Monty Python and the Holy Grail skit, despite the copious amounts of blood leaking from self-inflicted wounds, insists it’s business as usual. Meanwhile the sharks, like Dell, are gathering.
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