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• 10 April 2013

• News: Gotley to lead Check Point mid-market sales

  Internet security software vendor, Check Point Software Technologies, has appointed Michaeli Gotley as mid-market sales manager for Australia to lead a team of eight in growing the company’s presence in that market segment.

• News: Intel aims for easy server upgrades

  To make server upgrades easier, Intel introduced a rack reference architecture that speeds up data throughput while reducing energy and maintenance costs in data centers.

• 09 April 2013

• News: Oracle's Mark Hurd, users weigh in on third-party software maintenance

  Oracle co-President Mark Hurd weighed in on the contentious topic of third-party software maintenance at the Collaborate user group conference in Denver this week.

• News: Oracle rolls out new in-memory applications, scaled-down Big Data Appliance

  Oracle is planning to release a series of applications that take advantage of in-memory computing, a move that will up the competitive ante between itself and SAP.

• News: Red Hat JBoss Data Grid now spans data centers

  Red Hat has revised its JBoss Data Grid software package, which now offers the ability to replicate copies of data across different data centers, and also comes with a number of other new features that can limit downtime.

• News: Novell CEO plots company's return

  Two decades ago, Novell's network operating system software was almost ubiquitous in the enterprise. Now, its current president wants to restore Novell to a similar level of prominence.

• News: CAMP for Chrome catches 99% of malware, Google says

  Content-agnostic malware protection designed to tackle weaknesses of using whitelisting, blacklisting to stop malicious browser downloads

• News: Control system hack at manufacturer raises red flag

  US-CERT find leads to concerns across a broad array of industries, including military and hospitals

• News: Salesforce.com launches new services for mobile app development

  Salesforce.com is giving customers and partners access to a new set of tools and services for building mobile applications on its cloud platform.

• News: Tata to acquire French IT services company Alti

  Tata Consultancy Services is to acquire French IT services company Alti in a bid to increase its presence in the European market.

• 08 April 2013

• News: IT Spending on (Slight) Rise, Mobile Tops the List

  Forty-eight percent of the CIOs surveyed expect to increase spending this year, up slightly from this time last year. Mobile, business intelligence, and cloud infrastructure and services are the most cited categories.

• News: Oracle expands data sources for business intelligence software

  Oracle has revised two of its business intelligence products, giving users the ability to wrest intelligence from a wider range of data sources, including spreadsheets, social media sites and Hadoop deployments.

• News: Zimbra to make HTML5 push in next version

  VMware's Zimbra division has provided a preview of some of the enhancements it's working on for the next major release of the Zimbra Collaboration Server (ZCS), including an HTML5 Web client interface for both online and offline access to the product.

• News: Ultrabac Brings CIP Technology to Philippines' Small Businesses

  A Continuous Image Protection (CIP) technology, introduced for the first time in the Philippines, is being offered to local small- and medium-sized companies as their first line of business data protection and recovery.

• News: Oracle updates Primavera project portfolio management software

  Oracle has rolled out a series of upgrades and new features for the PPM (project portfolio management) software suite it gained through the 2008 acquisition of Primavera.

• News: Companies should ban Facebook Home, experts say

  Social network's new overlay for Android smartphones 'would be the first thing I would block on my network,' said one security adviser

• News: APT attackers getting more evasive, even more persistent

  Fear of discovery fuels sneakier tactics by writers of persistent malware

• 06 April 2013

• News: Could Outlook alter the sorry state of email apps for Windows RT?

  Windows RT users have a hard life. Not only are they locked out of the Windows desktop ecosystem thanks to RT's ARM-based processor architecture, but they face a limited supply of great app choices on the Windows Store are limited. Sure, we've seen a few nice additions lately--a barebones official Twitter client here, an equally barebones MLB.TV app there, and Nokia Music. But if you bought your RT device to get some work done, your app choices remain few and far between.

• 05 April 2013

• News: SAP's effort to get startups on HANA bandwagon chugging along

  SAP has spent the past year wooing entrepreneurs around the world in hopes they'll be entranced enough by its much-hyped HANA in-memory database to build products and even entire companies around the technology. On Friday, SAP brought the road show to Cambridge, Massachusetts, home of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a vibrant community of tech entrepreneurs.

• News: 3 Ways to Overcome IT Outsourcing People Problems

  Do your IT outsourcing services deals fail to deliver more than the basics? IT outsourcing customers need to focus on developing and training their outsourcing management staff so that their IT services deals are better than just 'good enough.'

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