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ServicesAngle News Briefs for January 22, 2013
Gartner Rates Dell Quest Among User Admin Leaders Dell Quest Software’s One Identity Manager is positioned in the Leaders’ quadrant in the “2012 Gartner Magic Quadrant for User Administration/Provisioning”. The report, issued on December 27, evaluates vendors offering comprehensive Identity and Access Management (IAM) systems. More Dell Quest Software in Challenger’s Quadrant in Gartner ...
ServicesAngle News Briefs for January 21
Nokia Outsources 820 Jobs to HCL, Tata As part of its latest round of streamlining and cost reduction efforts announced in June 2012, cellular handset maker Nokia is outsourcing approximately 820 jobs to HCL and Tata Consultancy Services. It is also cutting an additional 300 jobs. The reductions come at a moment when Nokia is ...
In the IaaS market, Caveat Emptor Applies
Ed. note: This is the third in a three-part series drawn from a major report on Amazon AWS by Wikibon Co-Founder and Chief Analyst David Vellante. The first examined Amazon’s formidable AWS strategy. The second looked at how other IaaS service providers can compete successfully with AWS. Amazon AWS is impressive and has changed the way ...
Services Angle News Briefs for January 16, 2013
EMC VSPEX Cuts SharePoint Tuning Time by 80% EMC has announced an enhanced VPEX Private Cloud solution that it says will reduce the time customers spend on tuning virtualized Microsoft SharePoint environments by 80%, slashes SharePoint provisioning by 4X, and reduces backup storage by 10-30X. VSPEX allows customers to choose the hypervisor, server, and network ...
Winning Strategies in an Amazon-dominated Services Market
Ed. note: This is the second in a three-part series drawn from a major report on Amazon AWS by Wikibon Co-Founder and Chief Analyst David Vellante. The first examined Amazon’s formidable AWS strategy. The third will discuss the implications for CIOs in medium-to-large organizations. At first look, AWS seems destined to eat up the entire ...
ServicesAngle News Briefs for January 15
EMC Announces Online File Sharing for the Enterprise EMC has announce beta availability of Syncplicity, its cloud-based online file sharing service with the option for customers to use either EMC Isilon scale-out NAS or EMC Atmos object-based storage. Syncplicity allows customers to store their files on-premise and in the Cloud. It gives IT great flexibility ...
Your Desk Phone May be Spying on You
A year ago two Columbia University Intrusion detection Systems Lab PhD candidates, Ang Cui and Michael Costello, demonstrated a method of hijacking HP printers by sending the printer a print job with a specific embedded code. Once compromised, the printer would surrender copies of all documents printed on it and give the hacker access to ...
Amazon, the 700-Pound Gorilla of Cloud, Redefines the Online Services Market
Ed. note: This is the first in a three-part series drawn from a major report on Amazon AWS by Wikibon Co-Founder and Chief Analyst David Vellante. The next section will look at how other IaaS providers can compete successfully with the Amazon steamroller. The third will look at the implications for CIOs in medium-to-large organizations. ...
ServicesAngle News Briefs for January 11, 2013
VMware Releases Horizon Workspace App VMware has released an app to provide secure, anywhere access to files and applications from iPhones and iPad Touch PDAs. The free Horizon Workspace App is part of the VMware Horizon Suite that combines areas of applications, data, and virtual desktop access into a single, integrated, end-user computing object. This ...
ServicesAngle News Briefs for January 9, 2013
Accenture Wins Two Contracts from U.S. Navy The U.S. Department of the Navy has awarded two contracts, totaling more than $30 million, to Accenture Federal Services to continue to support the Nave’s drive toward financial auditability. They are: A three-year, $35.5 million contract to work with six commands and the United States Marine Corps to ...