Infor Upgrades PLM Solution
The latest release of Infor PLM Optiva eases private-label product development. Infor PLM Optiva adds a new advanced formula editor. - Infor Software is upgrading its PLM Optiva product lifecycle management solution. PLM Optiva, announced July 30, is targeted at process manufacturers and retailers who offer private label products.
Enhancements in the new release improve formula development including editing strengthen performance ...
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How to Save on Data Storage
Enterprise data storage has almost become a science unto itself, with the days of simple backup long gone. Now in regular use are so-called tiers of storage, as the data is judged by various business criteria as to its timeliness and general importance. High-value data used on a daily or regular basis is housed on fast primary disks, or online, storage; data that may be accessed on occasion goes on slower, cheaper disks for nearline storage; and old or rarely accessed files go into storage tape, or the offline tier. By splitting the tiers in this fashion, enterprises can save greatly on power draw, cost and impact on the environment. - Video Content....
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China Visitors, Encrypt Your Data
Smart phones, blackberries or laptop computers could unwittingly offer up sensitive personal or business information to officials who monitor China's state-controlled telecommunications carriers. - WASHINGTON (Reuters) - China's blocking of Web sites has embarrassed the International Olympic Committee, but a computer security expert said on Thursday that visitors to Beijing also needed to protect their data from prying eyes.
quot;People who are going to China should take a clean computer, on...
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Angry Shareholders to Confront Yahoo
Financial analysts expect Yahoo's management to get berated by disgruntled shareholders who feel Yahoo failed to act in its best interests. Beyond that, little else is expected to happen at the Yahoo meeting. New minority board member Carl Icahn, who unsuccessfully tried to broker a deal between Yahoo and Microsoft, is skipping the event. - SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Yahoo's annual investor meeting on Friday
will be a magnet for discontent over the company's failure to reach a
merger deal with Microsoft and complaints about the company's past
performance.
But any real action to reshape Yahoo's course is likely to take
place only af...
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ICANN Plans for Disaster: A Registry Failure
It's hard for most of us to imagine VeriSign failing, but for some of the other companies in the registry business, the possibility is real. The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers is finally taking steps to figure out what to do if a registry fails. - Users spend little time thinking about Internet registries like ICANN or VeriSign because they don't deal with them directly. Perhaps they should.
VeriSign and the other companies that operate the top-level domains on the Internet are critical infrastructure. At least some of them are. What if one ...
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U.S. Agents Can Seize Laptops
Report: The notebooks and other devices can be seized without reason and held indefinitely. - WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. federal agents have been given new
powers to seize travelers' laptops and other electronic devices at the
border and hold them for unspecified periods the Washington Post
reported on Friday.
Under recently disclosed Department of Homeland Security policies,
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IBM Investing $360M in Cloud Computing Center
The newest IBM cloud computing center will be located at IBM's Research Triangle Park facility in North Carolina and will allow IBM to offer a cloud computing infrastructure and services to customers. - IBM is investing $360 million to build a new cloud computing center in North Carolina that promises to deliver cloud services and infrastructure to a new range of customers.
The Aug. 1 announcement comes on the same day that IBM plans to officially open a cloud computing facility in Tokyo that will...
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Nintendo Reviving Holographic Storage
Nintendo, the Japanese maker of the Wii videogame console co-signed for a patent on holographic storage and may be gearing up for development of this high-capacity storage concept. Nintendo signed the patent with Inphase Technologies. But bringing holographic storage to market won't be easy. - Nintendo, one of the world's top three videogame console and handheld device makers, apparently is preparing to invest some big money into developing holographic storage.
A patent for holographic storage was recently co-signed by the Japanese entertainment hardware and software company, which is ...
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Gartner: Blades Continue to Grow, but Beware of Hype
A Gartner study shows that blade servers continue to be the fast growing segment of the server market, which helps HP and IBM. However, proprietary blade architecture and the difficulty of developing I/O standards will continue to cause concerns for IT managers. - Blade servers will continue to be the fastest growing segment of the server market in the next four to five years but a lack of universal standards and the proprietary architecture used for blades should continue to give IT managers concerns.
In a new study released July 31, Gartner looked at the b...
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McAfee Buys Out Data Loss Prevention Specialist Reconnex
McAfee snaps up Reconnex to add deeper data loss prevention capabilities. The move, which follows several acquisitions in the DLP space by Symantec, EMC and others in 2007, is part of a broader data protection strategy for McAfee. - McAfee is making a play in the data loss prevention space with its
July 31 buyout of Reconnex.
The $46 million deal is expected to close in the third quarter of 2008.
McAfee's move comes after a number of prominent acquisitions in the DLP
space in 2007. These include Symantec's purchase of Vo...
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