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SecureWorks Acquires UK-based dns Limited
SecureWorks continued its managed security services empire building this week with its second major acquisition in six months by picking up UK-based dns Limited for an undisclosed sum. The purchase of this 10-year-old managed security services and consulting firm follows hot on the heels of SecureWork’s July acquisition of VeriSign’s Managed Security Services division for…
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Dell Strikes Back at Data Center Rivals HP, Cisco
Dell is taking the build-to-order philosophy that vaulted the company to success in the 1990s and applying it to the data center with a plan for modular components of computing, storage, networking and infrastructure management that can be easily assembled, deployed and managed. The announcement Dec. 10 is Dell’s answer to Cisco Systems’ and Hewlett-Packard’s…
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Coming to an Enterprise Near You: Consumer PCs
One of the changes that analysts and other observers are talking about as potentially a major trend for the next several years is the “consumerization of IT,” or end users buying their own technology and using it for work—laptops, smartphones, netbooks. A recent Gartner survey of enterprises showed that 10 percent of respondents said that…
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MSPSN Sold to Investment Group
High Street Technology Ventures, a consortium of investors, is buying MSPSN, one of the more active networks of managed service providers founded by MSP maven Amy Luby, for an undisclosed amount. The announcement of the sale is happening this morning in Washington, D.C., at the CompTIA MSP Business Simulation Experience, a managed services training program…
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Interwork Adds File Sharing and Offsite Backup to Security as a Service Suite
Ctera Networks (www.ctera.com) has signed on with value-added distributor Interwork Technologies (www.interwork.com) to launch a storage and data protection offering to its more than 4,000 resellers. Called S-Sphere, the all-in-one SMB solution for file sharing and offsite backup is delivered as part of a security as a service (SaaS) suite that features products from five…
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Desktop Virtualization: Ready for Prime Time or Still Hype?
Is desktop virtualization a promising new technology, or is it still a bunch of hype? Well, if you’re a CIO, chances are you don’t believe that desktop virtualization technology can deliver on everything it promises yet. That’s according to a new survey commissioned by Fujitsu that shows that 49 percent of private-sector CIOs say desktop…