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Tech Data, a distributor of microcomputer-related hardware and software products to VARs and retailers, is putting more money into its small and midsize business channel with a new leasing program backed by IBM Global Financing. The IBM partnership allows VARs to give customers access to more liquid cash through Tech Datas Credit Services division without […]

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/zimages/1/127021.jpgSun Microsystems is feeling something that it hasnt felt in several years: momentum. In the second quarter of 2006, the Santa Clara, Calif., company saw server revenue gains of 15.5 percent—the only top-tier OEM to see revenue growth—and moved past Dell to take the No. 3 spot among global systems vendors, according to market researcher […]

In Labs, Michael Caton reviews new clients for IBM Lotus Domino. In commentary, Peter Coffee wonders how high and how fast data can travel; Spencers Top 5 looks at Suns Project Mercury. Duration: 10:13 /zimages/1/28571.gifClick here to download this podcast. /zimages/1/28571.gif /util_get_image/1/0,3363,i=114836,00.gifTo subscribe to eWEEK podcasts, click here. /zimages/1/28571.gifCheck out eWEEK.coms for the latest podcasts […]

How has Sept. 11, 2001, changed the way we live and work? Baseline asked three information-technology managers whose organizations were affected by the attacks in New York City to share their personal and professional experiences from that day and the months that followed. Ellen Clarke, then CIO of Marsh, an insurance broker with offices on […]

CAs Unicenter Network and Systems Management r11.1 extends centralized control over geographically distributed and diverse operating systems running in large-scale enterprise IT environments. eWEEK Labs first tested CAs venerable systems management suite in 1997. Version r11.1 brings Unicenter NSM in line with CAs other Version 11 tools, including BrightStor and eTrust, using a common Management […]

BOSTON—After taking on the responsibility of leading Microsofts efforts to secure its much-awaited Vista operating system, Ben Fathi, corporate vice president of the Redmond, Wash., companys Security Technology Unit, is in town at the Security Standard Conference to evangelize to the firms progress in those efforts. While critics continue to say that Microsofts next-generation operating […]

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While I, too, am pleased with Advanced Micro Devices inroads in the OEM market (my last two PC purchases were AMD-based Lenovo systems), I do not view [that progress] solely as an indication of the success of AMDs platforms [Our View, “AMD Makes Strides,” Aug. 21]. While it can clearly be seen as recognition of […]

Its time for Microsoft to put its software where its mouth has been. Late last year, an individual with connections to the open-source community submitted one of Microsofts Shared Source licenses to the Open Source Initiative for approval as an OSI-sanctioned open-source license. The license submitter, John Cowan, was not a Microsoft employee. We knew […]

Organizations concerned with maintaining a tight security profile will appreciate Core Security Technologies Core Impact 6, a tool that allows automated, ethical penetration testing—in place of, or in addition to, hiring outside consultants. Core Impact 6 has a new framework that speeds client-side penetration testing, along with the ability (although limited at this time) to […]