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Symantec acquires PGP and GuardianEdge
by Sandip Kale
-added contribution from Dr. Mitul Mehta Finally, acknowledging long pending customers' requests, Symantec Corp. is entering the encryption market with the twin acquisition of PGP Corp. and GuardianEdge Technologies Inc. Both strongly established vendo… more »
Categories: Security, Mergers & acquisitions (M&A) Tags: data protection suites, dlp, encryption, guardianedge, m&a, pgp, symantec
01/05/10 04:13:31 am, 
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01/05/10 04:13:31 am, 1 comment » Triton - three pronged defence
by Norman 
Emily Wentz asks for “Any brand new proxy websites for Websense that don't have the word proxy on them? I need one that doesn't have the word proxy anywhere on the page. Trying to get through Websense”.Another young lady who, from her online name asp… more »
Categories: Google, Websense, Security, Private cloud, Networks, network security, Defensio, Triton, Data Loss Prevention (DLP), web security, use violations, malware
26/03/10 03:06:12 pm, 1 comment »
26/03/10 03:06:12 pm, 1 comment » Big Blue tackles Brownfield Networks
by Norman
Let’s probe behind yesterday’s announcement that IBM is acquiring Intelliden, a privately-owned technology company more »
Categories: IBM, Mergers & acquisitions (M&A), Intellident, Tivoli, Networks, network maintenance, network security, audit, compliance Tags: ibm, intellident, merger, network maintenance
17/02/10 07:34:07 am, 5 comments »
17/02/10 07:34:07 am, 5 comments » Oracle - Sun Microsystems amalgamation plans
by Sandip Kale
Oracle announced on 27th Jan 2010 that it has completed its acquisition of Sun Microsystems in a deal valued at more than $7 billion, a move that transforms the database and business-software giant into a hardware company as well. The European Commission… more »
Categories: Sun Microsystems, Mergers & acquisitions (M&A), Oracle
12/02/10 06:36:25 am, 64 comments »
12/02/10 06:36:25 am, 64 comments » TelePresence then, telepresence now
by Norman
The latest from Cisco confirms TekPlus' earlier analysis (see the blog posting of 2 October 2009) about the acquisition of Tandberg.In all the high falutin' talk about TelePresence, Cisco always skated round the fact that its system was not compatibl… more »
Categories: Cisco, Mergers & acquisitions (M&A), TelePresence, Tandberg, Multimedia, videoconferencing
10/02/10 12:34:44 pm, 4 comments »
10/02/10 12:34:44 pm, 4 comments » Cloud in the clouds
by Norman
The announcement that the U.S. Air Force (USAF) has awarded IBM a contract to design and demonstrate a secure cloud computing infrastructure capable of supporting defense and intelligence networks, moves the cloud computing/security issue to a totally ne… more »
Categories: IBM, Cloud computing, Security, attack, cloud and privacy, virtualisation, Public cloud, Private cloud, Defence (Defense), Air Force
07/02/10 02:03:37 pm, 7 comments »
07/02/10 02:03:37 pm, 7 comments » Outlook: still Cloudy
by Norman
The start of a press release begins thus:
Following the recent formation of its dedicated cloud consulting group, international solutions provider, Logicalis, today launches its Cooperative Enterprise Cloud Service. Architected on Cisco's Unified Com… more »
Categories: data centre, container, cloud and privacy, virtualisation, Logicalis
30/01/10 12:18:24 pm, 16 comments »
30/01/10 12:18:24 pm, 16 comments » HP buys 3Com. A Bid Too Far?
by Norman
That 3Com (http://www.3com.com/corpinfo/en_US/index.html ) has yielded to what has seemed the inevitable for a long time now, is unsurprising.
There have been plenty of observers who have questioned its market durability. "Cautious in business, bu… more »
Categories: IBM, Cisco, Hewlett Packard, data centre, Mergers & acquisitions (M&A), Procurve, 3Com, Huawei Technologies, H3C, Tipping Point Technologies
12/11/09 02:36:54 pm, Leave a comment »
12/11/09 02:36:54 pm, Leave a comment » Microsoft and the Cloud
by Norman
Although Microsoft announced its Business Productivity Online Suite – dedicated (BPOS-D) in October 2008 as available worldwide, it has taken a little longer to achieve this.
It has taken time to make the agreements with partners that will be deliver… more »
Taking security to the Cloud
by Norman
A constant theme of our postings on Cloud has been the security issues that customers perceive as so significant in this area. So what about the security issues of delivering security products from the Cloud?
This is the latest development to come al… more »
Categories: Cloud computing, medium-sized business, Channel, partners, Security, cloud and privacy, McAfee, Verizon
19/10/09 10:35:56 am, Leave a comment »
19/10/09 10:35:56 am, Leave a comment »