As the demand for technology is growing faster, the user is getting multiple products with various look-and-feel and functionality. Similarly, the server market is also showing the same trend. Today, if one asks for x86 servers, one gets a vista of options starting from hardware configuration to operating software and even the very look and feel.
I think sometime in the early eighties, an overwhelming creed existed that supported the axiom “small is beautiful”. An extension of such a concept to the corporate sector, I presume, has led to de-mergers and de-coupling of industrial ventures. The vogue that time was “mean and lean” espoused the virtues of being small for administrative and operational reasons. This paradigm is changing and big is not as bad a word as it sounded some years ago.
As network security is well on its way to becoming more complex and sophisticated, more security vendors are beginning to look at UTM as the way out. UTM, now the Holy Grail, combines multiple functions into a single device.
Of late, the need for comprehensive management solutions is felt across every segment of business, as security issues are becoming more and more complex. Computer Associates, now called CA, has been defining this space for a long time.
How would one react to the situation where his/her PC does not have any moving parts inside it? You cannot listen to your favourite number or even cannot store your data. Hei! You have to bear with it because this situation is going to arise sooner than later. You may accept it or not it. This is Thin Client technology, the objective of which is to provide you with an uninterrupted and safe computing at a far lesser cost. The obtrusively visible PCs are definitely going to feel the heat of competition from its poor sibling – Thin Client.
To move towards market leadership across product categories, the digital imaging company, Canon India has announced realignment in its market strategy. As part of its mega plan to achieve market leadership, the company has set a 30-per cent growth target for 2006.
While all competing networking companies focus on building LAN & WAN infrastructure, Gemini Communication focusses its energies beyond. Gemini believes in providing comprehensive understanding of Networks’ performance built already or the ones getting built.
The security appliance market is witnessing the emergence of UTM as the fastest growing segment, thanks to the ever-changing landscape of security threats. Billed as the much-vaunted trump card to neutralize the security threats, the UTM combines multiple security features – firewall, anti-virus and intrusion detection and prevention–– on a single hardware platform.
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