Software
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Avaya unified communications helps patients reach doctors by phone
Two years ago, patients calling Group Health Cooperative in Seattle for medical advice had zero chance of getting their questions answered on...
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Microsoft buys Opalis to strengthen cloud management capabilities
Moving to strengthen its management tools related to virtual environments, Microsoft said that it has purchased IT process automation vendor Opalis for...
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Realigning Microsoft’s Azure unit could boost innovation, squabbling
Unifying Windows Azure with its on-premises counterpart Windows Server should hasten the rollout of new features in Microsoft Corp.’s enterprise cloud platform,...
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Mozilla exec suggests Firefox users move to Bing
A Mozilla official pointed Firefox users to the extension that adds Microsoft’s Bing to the list of the browser’s search engines after...
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Red Hat open sources desktop application protocol
Red Hat has open sourced a virtual desktop protocol it acquired last year, called the Simple Protocol for Independent Computing Environment</a> (SPICE),...
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IBM offers hosted Tivoli monitoring for the midmarket
IBM is offering a hosted version of its Tivoli monitoring software for companies that would rather pay a subscription fee than license...
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Novell vows first identity management for cloud, virtualized apps
Virtualization and cloud computing have taken off, despite strong concerns lingering over how companies can secure and manage their apps and data....
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Symantec upgrades storage suite to add SSD, Hyper-V
Symantec Corp. announced several enhancements to its storage management suite, its cluster file system and cluster server software, including the ability to...
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Oracle aids partners to compete globally
Oracle PartnerNetwork (OPN) Specialized program has officially been launched. This announcement will make a difference to Oracle’s more than 22,000 global partners...
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Microsoft game software preps soldiers for battle
Soldiers may go into battle better prepared to handle equipment and with a greater knowledge of their surroundings after an intellectual property...
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Microsoft adds identity to cloud
Everyone eyeing Azure, their candidate for cloud-based computing, can at least agree on one thing: Redmond is late to the party that’s...
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Google’s Chrome OS is a work in progress
Google released its Chrome operating system last week to a great deal of hoopla and debate — depending on your point of...
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Microsoft’s top developers prefer old-school coding methods
Microsoft Corp. has done more to popularize graphical programming than any other vendor. The company’s development tools, led by Visual Basic and...
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Microsoft delays open-sourcing of Windows 7 tool
Microsoft has delayed re-releasing a Windows 7 installation tool that it has admitted included open-source code, saying that it’s still testing the...
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Desktop virtualization cheat sheet
Server virtualization is well on its way in corporate data centers and desktop virtualization is following fast behind. The pace of desktop...