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Juniper Gets Execs from Cisco, Microsoft
Juniper Networks is bulking up its marketing and channel prowess by raiding the executive ranks of rivals Cisco Systems and Microsoft. Juniper last week announced that two former Microsoft officials made the jump to help the networking company build up its enterprise marketing and global partnership capabilities. In between those announcements, Juniper officials said a…
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F5 Launches Sales and Technical Accreditation Programs
Application delivery networking firm F5 Networks has launched new partner training and accreditation modules under its Unity partner program. The Web-based training modules and accreditation program information is free to partners through the company’s F5 University. Training accreditation launches this month and sales accreditation later in 2011. “From a channel perspective it’s a really great…
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SolarWinds Launches Application Performance Monitor, Acquires Hyper9
IT management software specialist SolarWinds announced the launch of Application Performance Monitor (APM) and the acquisition of Hyper9, a privately held virtualization management software provider. The SolarWinds product family now covers additional aspects of business-critical applications and IT infrastructure — network, storage and systems — with integrated visibility into both virtual and physical environments. The…
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Quest Software Completes Acquisition of BakBone
IT management specialist Quest Software announced the completion of its acquisition of BakBone Software Inc., a provider of data protection software headquartered in San Diego, Calif. The company said the acquisition gives Quest additional technologies to offer data protection across heterogeneous physical, virtual and application-level environments, enabling organizations to support expanding data protection needs while…
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EMC Unveils VNX Unified Storage Platform
EMC, a provider of information infrastructure solutions, announced the release of a family of unified storage systems—EMC VNX. The new storage solutions consolidate the features and functionality of EMC CLARiiON and EMC Celerra into a single family of unified storage arrays that scale from entry-level to data center-class systems. The VNXe (for entry) series is…