Qualcomm Incorporated, a leading developer and innovator of advanced wireless technologies, products and services, today announced that it has completed its acquisition of Atheros Communications, Inc. The Atheros team will operate as Qualcomm Atheros, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Qualcomm. In addition, the Qualcomm connectivity team will shift over to Qualcomm Atheros to combine resources and roadmaps. This creates one of the industry’s most robust portfolios of connectivity, networking and location solutions for mobile, computing, enterprise and consumer electronic devices. Together, the two companies will be able to utilize their technology leadership positions, relationships and assets to more effectively address promising new business opportunities.
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Qualcomm Completes $3.1 Billion Acquisition Of Atheros Communications
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Survey Shows Public Sector Support For Hybrid Clouds, Little For Public Clouds
A survey of public sector IT professionals in the federal government, that was released on Monday, reveals that only 6.9 percent of those surveyed think that accessing IT resources from a public cloud service is a viable strategy, while a vast majority of 68 percent support a private or hybrid cloud approach. The survey by Quest Software Public Sector, a division of Quest Software, also found that there’s still confusion among users about the differences between virtualization and cloud computing. And, notably, only one out of 10 respondents has devised an “exit strategy” to withdraw from cloud computing or transfer to another cloud service provider, which makes for a significant gap in cloud planning.
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ExaGrid Pushes Backup And Disaster Recovery Appliances To 13 Terabytes
ExaGrid Systems Inc., which makes a disk-based backup and disaster recovery appliance that includes deduplication and replication functionality, has announced a 13-terabyte model, the EX13000E. Because users can use them to build grids of up to 10 devices, the new model means network administrators can now build a grid with a capacity of up to 130 TB, which is a 30 percent improvement over one built with the company’s existing products. The device also has half the power and cooling requirements of previous models, and now offers an encryption option, though the company is not formally announcing it at this time.
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Bringing Customer Experience And Business Channel Development Together With IT
As one of the largest hospitality companies in the world, Marriott has over 3,500 lodging properties in the U.S. and 69 other countries and territories, and a daily workload of over 750,000 new reservations. Transaction throughput must be rapid, unfailing and 24/7. If problems arise, failover must be swift and absolute. Simultaneously, business intelligence systems must be able to “right fit” pricing and accommodations for customers during transactions–and the systems must have the ability to extend the “reach” of Marriott’s reservation community from the company-hosted Website and systems to the Websites and systems of worldwide channel partners that sell Marriott reservations along with other services.
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New E-Discovery Products Target Backup, SharePoint
Two new e-discovery products are coming to market to help IT tackle significant pain points: finding relevant information in data backups and SharePoint. At EMC World earlier this month, Index Engines announced that its collection engine can work with Data Domain, the widely-deployed deduplication and backup appliance from EMC. And Sherpa Software announced a new version of its Discovery Attender software that can find and collect files from Microsoft’s SharePoint platform. E-discovery is the process in which organizations involved in litigation find and collect data–documents, e-mail, and other electronic files–that may be relevant to the case.
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Sepaton Unveils Backup ROBO Cop
Sepaton, Inc. is reaching out from its backup stronghold in enterprise data centers to the ROBOs (remote office/branch offices), with three new systems that address what the company calls the ‘last 30 percent of unprotected enterprise data’. Starting with 10 or 20TB usable capacity options in a 2u form factor, the S2100-DS3 Series 1000, 2000 and 2000e can deliver backup speeds of up to 1500 MB/sec, and performance optimization features include automated load-balancing of backup, restore, deduplication and replication for continuous, maximum performance, as well as support for Symantec NetBackup OpenStorage (OST) on 10 Gb Ethernet concurrently with Fibre Channel tape emulation.
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Aptio And ServiceNow Combine To Improve IT Management
Two software-as-a-service vendors focused on business needs have announced a partnership that will result in their products working together, allowing clients to use the results of one product as input for the other. The companies are Apptio, which provides products, such as software to develop cost models, for what it calls Technology Business Management, and ServiceNow, which delivers service desk functionality in a SaaS model. Combined, users will be able to take the kinds of information gathered by ServiceNow and deliver it to the Apptio family of products, which the companies said will help it build cost models more accurately.
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Day 22: What If You Can’t Connect to Google Docs?
30 Days With…Google Docs: Day 22
We have gotten through three weeks of 30 Days With…Google Docs. We are entering the home stretch of the project, and we haven’t addressed one of the most crucial questions to ask when considering Google Docs–what do you do when you can’t connect to Google Docs?
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Day 21: Chrome Extensions for Google Docs
30 Days With…Google Docs: Day 21
There are other benefits to using a Web-based productivity platform aside from the ability to collaborate online in real-time. For today’s 30 Days With…Google Docs post, we’ll explore another one of those benefits–the ability to extend functionality with browser add-ons.
Actually, let me start out with the caveat rather than tossing it in at the end–Microsoft Office has thousands of add-ins as well, so I guess that being Web-based really has little to do with whether or not new features and capabilities can be added in.
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Verizon Hints at Shared Data Plans
Let’s be honest. It was only a matter of time before Verizon followed AT&T’s lead and dropped unlimited data plans in favor of a tiered structure. It’s not all bad news, though. There is also some evidence that Verizon may soon offer shared data plans.
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