Symantec's
Backup Exec 12
is on the market; the company calls it the first backup application
certified for Windows Server 2008.
Backup
Exec System Recovery 8
is out there, too.
The security giant has also popped out Symantec
Solutions for Windows, which has a strong SaaS flavor. And, while we're
at it, Symantec has SaaS
versions of Online Backup and Online Storage for Backup Exec available,
as well. In other news, Symantec's press release writer is recovering nicely
from a recent bout of carpal tunnel syndrome.
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Posted by Lee Pender on 02/20/20080 comments
Hi, reader, what's happening? Like
Lumbergh
from Office Space
, we're playing a little catch-up today, not because
we've "lost some people" but because we took the very un-Lumbergh
step of not working over the long weekend. As a result, we're writing Tuesday's
newsletter on Tuesday and not the day before. So, it'll be short and sweet today.
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Posted by Lee Pender on 02/19/20080 comments
"Hmm, maybe if we move this person into this job (and, um, buy Yahoo),
we'll finally get this Web thing right..."
-- Overheard (not really, of course) in a Redmond board room around the time
this
decision
was made.
Posted by Lee Pender on 02/19/20080 comments
To
high
school and college kids
, that is. So, grow a bad teenage mustache, brush
up on the parlance of today's youth (we think we heard some of it in the movie
Juno
, but we can't be sure), and see if you, too, can pass for a high
school kid and score some free stuff. Or not.
Posted by Lee Pender on 02/19/20081 comments
Our old buddy David Pogue (OK, OK, we've never met him, but it sounds so classy
to know someone who writes for
The New York Times
) says that Office Live
Small Business is
actually
pretty cool
.
Posted by Lee Pender on 02/15/20080 comments
How much does Yahoo not want to become part of Microsoft? So much that the
company is apparently running toward
Rupert
Murdoch's News Corp.
for safety.
Meanwhile, Yahoo's staying busy. CEO Jerry Yang is trying
to explain to shareholders why his company -- their company, really -- rejected
Microsoft's first overture. And Yahoo's still trying to run a business here,
doing what companies do: buying
other companies and laying
people off.
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Posted by Lee Pender on 02/15/20080 comments
Sweeter than discount chocolates the day after Valentine's Day, it's RCPU reader
feedback! We're hoping that you're either savoring a post V-Day glow or at least
capably explaining to the wife why you came home empty-handed again this year.
(We're big fans of, "Valentine's Day is just a retail scam! I love you
every day!" Eventually, that's got to work. Oh, and ladies -- we're guessing
that 90 percent of our readers are married guys, so please excuse the one-sided
attempts at humor.)
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Posted by Lee Pender on 02/15/20080 comments
Virtualization titan VMware has sweetened the incentive pot for some of its
smaller partners with revisions to its channel program. Specifically, partners
at its program's Professional level (basically its entry level) now have access
to the "advantage +" incentive program for the first time.
"We're seeing a growth in all of our partner tiers," Julie Eades,
VMware's director of worldwide channel marketing, told RCPU. "We really
felt that [Professional partners] are very open to needing the same kind of
benefits as the other tiers of the program." VMware now has nearly 10,000
partners worldwide, Eades said.
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Posted by Lee Pender on 02/14/20080 comments
Well, hello,
RCP
Editor in Chief Scott Bekker. Perhaps you have
some
news about NetApp
for us:
Network storage vendor NetApp this week launched an expansion of its channel
program in a bid to expand its market share against EMC and other storage vendors
by giving its partners the tools to deliver more profitable services surrounding
NetApp's storage devices and software. Of the four initial service focus areas
for NetApp partners in the program, one is specifically for Microsoft applications.
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Posted by Lee Pender on 02/14/20080 comments
You might
remember
a lawsuit
filed claiming that Microsoft labeled PCs as Windows Vista capable
when they were only really capable of running one version of Vista, the low-level
Vista Home Basic.
Well, this week, we found out as part of the suit's legal proceedings that
there was more to the story than just a bit of allegedly misleading marketing.
Apparently, there was something
resembling mass confusion inside Microsoft, including fairly high-ranking
executives -- Mike Nash and Jim Allchin among them -- questioning what on earth
was going on with the whole Vista labeling campaign. One employee even said
in an e-mail that a "piece of junk" PC could still qualify for a Vista
Ready label.
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Posted by Lee Pender on 02/14/20081 comments