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Box 8 32 58 66 82545, Lincoln, NE 68501 ➤ Essential ➤ Mobile ➤ Personal ➤ Business Business Tech Office Electronics Travel 911 Scan this Technology Highly useful Electronics, Fast tech QR Code with your intelligence information services, and support mobile for executives, for conducting helpful advice especially for smartphone to see our professionals, and business on for home traveling Web site. entrepreneurs the road and leisure professionals IN BRIEF TECHNOLOGY NEWS MERGER YIELDS continued growth, with revenues SYMPHONY TELECA CLOUD forecast to reach $288 billion for 2012 SOFTWARE COMPANY compared to $267 billion in 2011. ➤ Palo Alto, Calif.,-based Symphony Services recently merged with the NETWORK BOX USA INTEL BOLSTERS Swedish company Teleca to form GETS IPV6 READY HIGH PERFORMANCE Symphony Teleca. Symphony Ser- ➤ If you are not familiar with IPv6 COMPUTING vices specializes in cloud software (Internet Protocol version 6), you CAPABILITIES development solutions for ISVs (in- will be soon. The current stan- ➤ With a focus on supercom- dependent software vendors) and dard, IPv4, is almost out of avail- puting, and also with an eye enterprise mo- able addresses, toward “real-time, always on” bility, in addi- and IPv6 is in businesses with high avail- tion to many line to succeed ability requirements, Intel’s other services. IPv4. “Imag- HPC (high performance com- Teleca offers ine a company puting) products stand to get product de- moves its office, a boost from one of the compa- velopment, to find they can ny’s newest acquisitions. Intel business con- only get an IPv6 has struck a deal with Aliso sulting, and Internet con- Viejo, Calif.,-based QLogic to other services nection to their purchase QLogic’s InfiniBand to OEMs and new office,” assets for $125 million in cash. telecommuni- says Pierluigi InfiniBand is a high-bandwidth cations com- Stella, CTO of networking technology. “The panies. As one Network Box sale of these InfiniBand assets company, “Symphony Teleca is USA. “What happens at that point? Is will benefit our shareholders global in scale, has clear leadership their eclectic, yet typical, mix of new, by enabling us to provide bet- in the areas that will define next- fairly new, old, and very old computer ter focus and greater invest- generation cloud and connected soft- equipment going to work?” Network ment in growth opportunities ware applications, boasts one of the Box will soon be rolling out its Version largest R&D capabilities focused on Five systems to solve that problem im- enterprise software and mobility, mediately. “IPv4 and IPv6 are com- and employs one of the most expe- pletely incompatible,”Stella says. rienced global services teams in the With the Network Box systems, how- industry,” said CEO Sanjay Dhawan ever, “your computer can speak IPv4 in a statement. Citing significant and the Network Box will translate that positive change in the enterprise into IPv6. As far as I know, Network software and enterprise mobility Box is the only UTM device capable of markets, Symphony Teleca expects doing this.” for the data center with our converged networking, en- BMC SOFTWARE BUYS NUMARA ➤ terprise Ethernet, and storage The Houston-based BMC Software, a global IT services company that area networking products,” serves more than 25,000 organizations, has entered into an agreement to pur- said QLogic CEO Simon Bid- chase Numara Software. Based in Tampa, Fla., Numara is best known for its discombe in a statement. “After FootPrints line of IT management products, which BMC will begin offering to the sale, our cash position will serve the mid-market as a complement to its own cloud-based BSM (business be further strengthened and we service management) solutions. “Now BMC can effectively serve the entire expect the impact on earnings spectrum of organizations hungry for IT management with products that truly per share to be neutral.” meet the specific needs of their businesses,” said Paul Avenant, president of BMC’s Enterprise Service Management division, in a statement. “Numara’s solutions, customer base, and sales and channel partners will round out BMC’s market leadership in Business Service Management and focus on customer care and support.” 4 March 2012 / www.pctoday.com IN BRIEF TECHNOLOGY NEWS LAPLINK READYING SYNC PRODUCT ➤ Laplink, the Bellevue, Wash.,-based company perhaps best known for its PCmover data migration software, announced Laplink Sync, an upcoming product that works in conjunction with Intel’s My WiFi technology. My WiFi enables personal hotspots, or PANs (personal area networks), and Laplink Sync will serve to synchronize data across mobile and other devices using TWITTER BUYS a range of operating systems (Windows, Mac, Android, iOS, and Windows MORE SECURITY Phone). Laplink Sync is due for release sometime during the first half of this ➤ In November, the San year. For more information about Laplink and PCmover for the enterprise, Francisco-based company see page 25. behind the eponymous Twit- ter micro-blogging service WATCH FOR ONLINE OWC LAUNCHES SSD STORAGE FROM GOOGLE FOR MISSION-CRITICAL ➤ Although no final product was in ENTERPRISE USE public view as of press time, The Wall ➤ Other World Computing recently Street Journal reports that Google is released its new Mercury Enter- getting close to launching an online prise Pro 6G line of SSDs (solid-state storage service, called Drive, which drives) for enterprise businesses and would keep files in sync between larger organizations seeking to up- devices and the cloud (i.e., Google’s grade for greater speed, lower total picked Whisper Systems, a servers). Integration with Google cost of ownership, and other bene- company that makes security Apps is likely, which means that fits relative to standard HDDs (hard software for mobile devices Drive would have a business-ori- disk drives). According to Wood- that use Google’s Android ented component, as well. It appears stock, Ill.,-based OWC, the Mercury operating system. It is not that Drive will also be available for Enterprise Pro 6G SSDs consume 90% clear yet how Twitter plans consumer use and will compete less power than HDDs and reach to incorporate Whisper Sys- with such services as Dropbox and data rates of more than 500MBps, tems into its service, but now Apple’s iCloud. making them ideal for mission-crit- Twitter has announced an- ical server use. OWC also touts the other security-related ac- VISA LAUNCHES drives’ security benefits as providing quisition: Dasient. Based in MOBILE SERVICES SUITE “up to 100x greater data protection” Sunnyvale, Calif., Dasient’s ➤ Each year brings us closer to compared to HDDs, storing data in services scan Web sites, being able to manage most of our AES-256/128 hardware double en- URLs, and Web-based wid- finances using our mobile devices. crypted format. The Mercury Enter- gets for any sign of malware. To that end, Visa recently released prise Pro 6G SSDs will soon be avail- “Since its inception, Dasient a suite of mobile services that pro- able in to 400GB. has been focused on solving vides financial institutions with web-scale security prob- the ability to extend certain Visa lems involving malware and services to mobile customers. Card- other types of online abuse,” holders will, for example, be able said Dasient co-founder and to monitor their account activity, CTO Neil Daswani in a blog transfer funds, and sign up for in- post. “By joining Twitter, stant transaction alerts on their Dasient will be able to apply smartphones or other mobile de- its technology and team vices. Visa worked with the UK- to the world’s largest real- based company Monitise to develop time information network.” the suite. Terms of the acquisition have not been released. Other World Computing touts its new Mercury Enterprise Pro 6G SSDs as consuming 90% less power and offering 100X more data protection relative to standard enterprise hard disk drives. PC Today / March 2012 5 IN BRIEF TECHNOLOGY NEWS STARTUPS XERO RAISES $20 MILLION FUNDING ROUND TOTALS $15 FOR ONLINE ACCOUNT MILLION FOR LEADS360 SOFTWARE BUSINESS ➤ Leads360 (www.leads360.com), seller of ➤ Xero (www.xero.com), a provider of Web-based software and services aimed NEXGEN STORAGE real-time, online accounting software, at helping organizations manage leads NETS $10 MILLION reportedly raised $20 million that it they already possess, recently netted $15 FOR STORAGE plans to use to help expand growth million through a new funding round SYSTEM EFFORT in overseas markets.