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Microsoft Crashes IBM Lotus Party with Migration Tools
Knocking on the door of its competition at the opening of their annual user event, Microsoft announced new tools to help IBM Lotus Notes/Domino users migrate to the Microsoft fold. At the kickoff of IBM’s annual Lotusphere conference in Orlando, Fla., Microsoft announced a series of tools to help Lotus Notes/Domino customers take advantage of…
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‘Storm’ Worm Continues Surge Around Globe
Experts are forecasting an increase in spam as a result of the “Storm” worm that sent out six separate waves containing hundreds of thousands of e-mails during the weekend, and continues to touch down on computers worldwide. “The malware is distributed to set up a network of infected zombie computers, which can then be used…
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Hitachi Adds Performance Booster to Midtier Storage System
Storage hardware and software maker Hitachi Data Systems on Jan. 22 introduced what it called “significant” performance enhancements in its mid-range Hitachi Adaptable Modular Storage AMS1000 that it claims boosts the system’s processing power by about 20 percent. Hitachi’s new multi-processor design in the AMS1000 augments the storage system’s business-enabling capabilities first unveiled in April…
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Two Leading Virtualization Companies Are One
In a memo to their employees, the CEOs of two leading virtualization companies recently revealed that their companies have merged. Specifically, Serguei Beloussov, of SWsoft and Nick Dobrovolskiy of Parallels acknowledged that SWsoft now owns Parallels. According to a source close to the companies, SWsoft bought Parallels “about a year ago—but kept them very separate…
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Across the Country, December’s Job Market Waned
Job availability waned in all of the top U.S. metropolitan markets in December, according to the Monster Local Employment Index, released by the New York-based online job board Jan. 22. Portland, Ore., after four consecutive months, took the biggest hit in December, due predominantly to a loss in white-collar opportunities in IT, engineering and management,…
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Sun, Intel Announce New Partnership
In a collaboration that one CEO called “historic,” Sun Microsystems and Intel jointly announced a new partnership that will see both companies support the other’s technology. The announcement, which had first been reported in the Wall Street Journal and formally detailed at a joint news conference in San Francisco on Jan. 22, will allow Sun…
