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Avaya Wraps Up Package for Smaller Businesses
Avaya Inc. has a new hardware/software communications package for small and midsize businesses looking for IT answers with fewer integration challenges. “You could go buy four or five different boxes, log in to each one, administer each of them, and read the manuals for each one,” said Saied Seghatoleslami, vice president of product management and…
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Certive Releases Data Integration Server
Certive Corp. is trying to redefine the concept of data integration with its Certive Server. The new data integration and management platform, introduced last week, is positioned to enterprises as an all-in-one alternative to existing tools for data extraction, transformation and loading; data marts; OLAP (online analytic processing) cubes; and front-end business intelligence applications. Tools…
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EMC to Tap Into VMware Virtualization Capabilities
After working together quietly for nearly a year, EMC Corp. and VMware Inc. made it official last week with the storage vendor buying the smaller software company in a bid to offer combined storage and server virtualization and management tools. The $635 million cash deal is expected to result in some 20 new offerings in…
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Outsourcing Moves Back In
Early this month, MPC Computers took an unusual step. At a time when so many companies offer technical support through third-party, often off-shore, facilities, MPC is moving its entire technical support operation in-house. All support duties will be handled by MPC employees working at the company’s Nampa, Idaho headquarters. “Thirty new employees will be on…
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Novell Takes on SCO, Registers Unix Copyrights
Novell Inc. on Monday confirmed reports that it has registered 11 copyrights on the Unix System V source code that is at the center of the SCO Group Inc.’s legal battles with the Linux operating system. Novell, prompted by reports of the registrations on the Groklaw Web site, said in a statementthat “it owns the…