In its RiOS v6.5 software, the company offers the ability for business managers to tweak bandwidth for mission critical data streams, such as replication between data centers for disaster recovery and business continuity. By the same token, managers can narrow bandwidth for less critical applications, such as printer and e-mail workloads.

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For many months after the acquisition closed, the Symmetrix and CLARiiON groups “just didn’t see eye-to-eye” on many architectural and development-related issues, Bob says. CLARiiON engineers stayed in Southboro. There was little cross-pollination or collaboration. And, although it seems unbelievable now, many EMC engineers didn’t see merit in a midrange storage acquisition.

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Visitors to the Riverbed booth can learn how the company’s WAN optimization and NPM solutions can help accelerate the transmission of mission-critical data over satellite-based WANs to help the defense intelligence community better meet its operational objectives. In November 2010, Riverbed acquired Global Protocols LLC to expand on an existing partnership and enable customers to derive even greater value out of the combined solution for satellite networks.

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“Enterprises need a cohesive view into the state of their security to defend themselves against increasingly sophisticated attacks,” said Francis deSouza, senior vice president of the Enterprise Security Group at Symantec. “Integrating market-leading authentication solutions acquired from VeriSign in August with the Symantec Protection Center will provide our customers with a complete view into their state of security, allowing them to identify their highest areas of risk and shorten Read more

To help ensure that the new solution addresses real-world business challenges, SAP worked closely with three consumer industry customers in EMEA and North America. In the development phase, SAP ran real customer data through the modeling and optimization engine, which serves as the foundation for the SAP Trade Promotion Optimization application, to test the quality of results.

Users will be able to assess and define best promotion opportunities for a given product such as discounts, Read more

Despite challenges involved in programming the many possibilities, the tool was developed in a matter of weeks. It needed to be intuitive and easy to understand. For that, EXIN reached out to the community on LinkedIn, a popular social network for professionals, who then had an opportunity to test and provide feedback on the tool. Their input resulted in a better design and user-friendliness as well as additional functions such as the possibility to embed the calculator on other Read more

Together with IBM, New Pig is leading the way as more manufacturers move from the role of traditional suppliers to direct-to-consumer sellers. New Pig is using IBM Websphere Commerce, a key component of its IBM Smarter Commerce initiative, to put the customer at the center of decisions and actions.

The CompTIA study also suggests that IT hardware and software vendors, resellers, solution providers, carriers and distributors better be able to walk the green IT walk if they expect to win Read more

The report further states that growth in enterprise demand for MSS is driven primarily by four factors – staffing and budget constraints, evolving compliance reporting requirements, expansion of Internet connection points and growing experience with remote services for IT. By leveraging Symantec’s world-class analytics and expertise, organizations can improve business continuity and enhance the efficiency of their security operations.

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Both the training and the certification are vendor-neutral; the student learns the fundamental knowledge to work in any vendor’s space. CTP+ does a good job of explaining how the data world and the telecommunications world intersect. This background is especially helpful for VARs and service providers who work with or support products from multiple vendors to make sure the voice, video and data networks are working just right.

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Some of IBM’s clients in these regions include metals companies Vandana Global and Jindal Steel in Raipur as well as Kurmanchal Bank and Uttarakhand Power Corporation in Dehradun. Key to India’s regional development is the cooperative bank segment where IBM is working a number of leading players across the country such as Nawanagar Cooperative Bank, Latur Cooperative Bank and Karad Cooperative Bank.

Peter Lijnse of Service Management Art in Canada, who integrated ABC of ICT? into Read more