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EMC Says Oracle-Sun Deal is a Game Changer, Asks For Salary Reductions
EMC’s (NYSE:EMC) CEO says Oracle’s bid to buy Sun Microsystems will be a game changer in the data center market, and has asked employees to take a 5 percent pay cut as the vendor struggles with lower demand for its storage products. Earlier this week, Oracle Corp. made a surprise proposal to acquire Sun Microsystems…
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Sophos Fights Margin Erosion
Celebrating the second anniversary of its 100 per cent North American channel strategy, IT security and control firm Sophos says it continues to experience tremendous partner program momentum and growth. For fiscal year 2008, revenue growth for Sophos channel partners increased 43 per cent. Sophos officials said the company has modeled its Global Partner Program…
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More Virulent Smartphone Malware on the Horizon
More virulent, stealthy and voluminous malware for smartphones such as the Apple iPhone, BlackBerrys, Google Android and devices running the Microsoft Mobile is coming as these platforms become more open to application developers, says Eugene Kaspersky, the chief executive and founder of anti-virus vendor Kaspersky Lab. In a meeting at the RSA Conference, Kaspersky says…
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Symantec Gains Web Security Tools through MI5 Acquisition
Mi5 specializes in Web gateway security products. At the center of its technology is its S2 Streaming Engine, which examines Web inbound and outbound traffic for threats. The company most often competed with rivals such as Websense and Blue Coat. Now that it is a part of Symantec, the goal is to combine its security…
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Deducing Poe’s RSA Mystery
Edgar Allen Poe, the first American master of the macabre, provides the theme of this year’s RSA Conference—the largest gathering of security vendors, resellers and professionals—which opens today in San Francisco. What does a writer who plied stories about ghouls and madness have to do with security? His classic poem "The Raven" is hardly a…
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Lenovo Unveils Hardware Password Manager
Lenovo has announced the Lenovo Hardware Password Manager, a universal tool that allows companies to get full value from hard disk encryption by letting IT administrators remotely manage employee hard drive passwords. "This is an industry first," said Stacy Cannady, product manager, security, at Lenovo. "No one else is able to centrally manage all available…