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iPass and Sygate Team Up
Two companies known for providing different aspects of secure remote access are teaming up to provide secure access solutions for mobile users. iPass Inc., which is headquartered in Redwood Shores, Calif., will use Sygate Inc.’s policy enforcement and personal firewall technology to outfit its Policy Orchestration security platform, which the company announced in July. Policy…
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Solaris Goes Open Source
When Solaris 10 is released late this year, Sun Microsystems Inc. will be culminating years of development work on the operating system, as well as launching a major open-source initiative to go with it. The Santa Clara, Calif., company is on track to deliver on a new strategy, conceived some six years ago, of developing…
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Sun’s Loiacono Outlines Solaris Road Map
Sun Microsystems Inc. executives will take the stage in New York this week to display Solaris 10, the next version of that operating environment; clarify the vision for the product; and define the rationale for moving it to open source. John Loiacono, the Santa Clara, Calif., company’s executive vice president for software, spoke to eWEEK…
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Stratus Unveils Low-End Fault-Tolerant Server
Stratus Technologies Inc. is bringing its fault-tolerant server platform down into the volume systems space, giving users an alternative to clusters and Stratus access to an area of the industry that it didn’t have before. The ftServer W Series 2300 system has many of the features of the higher-end 3300, but at about $10,000, it…
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HP Aims Blade, Virtualization Tools at Utility Computing
Hewlett-Packard Co. is bringing greater manageability and virtualization capabilities to its blade server offerings as it pushes forward its utility computing initiatives. Modularity is a key component of HP’s Adaptive Enterprise strategy, and “blades are a very modular aspect of the shift toward utility computing,” Ann Livermore, executive vice president of the company’s Technology Solutions…
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VMware Takes Virtual Machines Mobile
VMware Inc., known for its virtual machine technology for servers and workstations, is turning its attention to the client space. The Palo Alto, Calif., company on Monday is rolling out software designed to enable PC administrators to distribute secure computing environments—a virtual machine—to the extended enterprise, such as mobile and contract workers. Using VMware ACE…
