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Romtelecom and COSMOTE Romania announce key performance indicators for Q1 2014, ended March 31st, 2014, as reported by the OTE Group. “Q1 2014 figures for both companies reflect the first results of the strategy we have put in place for this year. Namely, on the fixed segment, the company focused on increasing the penetration of TV services. This is reflected into constant customer growth rate: 7.3% in Q1 2014 versus Q1 2013. On the business segment, the turn-key solutions for large companies had significant results in Romtelecom’s revenues. On the…

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VMware has finally launched Cloud Foundry on its vCloud Hybrid Service cloud alongside a broader partnership with big daddy EMC. The virtualization company’s chief executive Pat Gelsinger said on Tuesday at EMC World in Las Vegas that Cloud Foundry will soon be available on top of the company’s vCloud Hybrid Service (vCHS) cloud. Cloud Foundry is a platform-as-a-service developed by VMware-spinoff Pivotal that has some open source components, including a standalone PaaS project. It competes with similar technologies such as Red Hat’s “OpenShift” PaaS, along with the Rackspace-backed OpenStack Solum…

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With the Cost of Data Breaches and Advanced Persistent Threats on the Rise, IBM Helps Clients Detect, Prevent and Respond to Attacks ARMONK, N.Y. – 05, May 2014:  IBM (NYSE: IBM) today introduced comprehensive new security software and services to help organizations protect their critical data in an environment where advanced persistent threats, zero day attacks, breaches and resulting costs to organizations are growing. Through pervasive behavioral analytics and deep research expertise, IBM can help organizations stop attackers from exploiting these vulnerabilities. According to two IBM-commissioned surveys announced today from…

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Most security pros believe attackers are able to dodge defenses. Companies can better protect themselves by sharing threat intel within their industries. Over the past three years, the IT security community has gradually come to the consensus that every company should assume that their systems have been breached. While the lack of faith in their technology, tools and people may, on some level, be practical, it should not be a reason to give up, security experts stress. The latest report from the Ponemon Institute released this week shows, for example,…

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Sure sign of system compromise No. 10: Your bank account is missing money I mean lots of money. Online bad guys don’t usually steal a little money. They like to transfer everything or nearly everything, often to a foreign exchange or bank. Usually it begins by your computer being compromised or from you responding to a fake phish from your bank. In any case, the bad guys log on to your bank, change your contact information, and transfer large sums of money to themselves. What to do: In most cases…

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Data storage company EMC on Monday took the covers off its ECS (Elastic Cloud Storage) Appliance at EMC World 2014 in Las Vegas. Formerly known as Project Nile, the company is positioning its latest product as a breakthrough in hyper-scalecloud storage infrastructure that spans customers of any size in every industry — and aiming squarely at Google and Amazon. EMC is answering what it sees as an industry need: The so-called “third platform of IT” — social, mobile, cloud and bigdata — is creating new opportunities and competitive threats for large enterprises and small…

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The Danube IT 2014 Conference and Matchmaking Event in Novi Sad, Serbia, May 29/30 will explore a variety of topics related to IoT. Conference participants will learn from a stellar lineup of speakers, be able to share their own experiences, and will have the opportunity to network with speakers and participants during individual presentations, panel discussions, the unconference session, B2B matchmaking, and many informal social settings. Danube IT 2014 is an ideal venue for anyone interested in information technologies and high-tech innovation: founders and potential founders of high tech startups,…

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Behind a new online portal, IBM offers its IaaS, PaaS and SaaS offerings IBM has assembled a vast array of hosted cloud services, and now it has somewhere to show them off. On its IBM Cloud online marketplace that goes live on Monday, enterprises can find the full range of IBM’s offerings behind a single gateway. “So many of our customers want to build new cloud-based, front-end systems, but they want to tie them into their back-end infrastructure. We’re delivering a whole set of integration components and control services to do…

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Introducing the new Toshiba Satellite C Series laptops Neuss, Germany, 28th of April – Toshiba Europe GmbH announces its latest C Series laptops (in Serbia) – the slim and affordable 39.6 cm (15.6”) Satellite C50/C50D and the versatile 43.9 cm (17.3”) Satellite C70/C70D. These value-packed models provide reliable computing making them perfect for use on the move or as desktop replacements. Perfect for a range of users from students to home office workers, the Satellite C Series offer plenty of choice for all everyday computing requirements. With powerful processors, enhanced…

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HP XP7 Storage provides ultra-high performance and always-on disaster recovery for lower risk, greater data protection HP today unveiled an enterprise-class storage disk array that provides customers with lower total cost of ownership (TCO) for traditional storage workloads in mission-critical environments. Large enterprises rely on mission-critical applications to drive their businesses, which means that applications and data must remain available at all times, without exception. To ensure business continuity, enterprises require storage solutions that are designed to maintain high levels of data availability and continuous disaster recovery protection. To drive…

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