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A youthful start-up vendor has a comprehensive approach to network management, but without the cost and complexity of big frameworks.

A new feature in Virtual Iron 4.4 helps make your server virtualization work even more power efficient.

A new report shows India is becoming a major player in IT R&D.

Nintex Reporting 2008 lets you know everything you can possibly want to know about your SharePoint environment.

A free monitoring tool from Hyperic will be a boon to those who depend on cloud-based services from Amazon.

Digital Fuel is now offering its business service management software for IT in a SaaS mode.

Good Data Corp. is in beta with its business intelligence service that targets the needs of mid-size companies.

Open source backup software supplier Zmanda will archive your Oracle apps for $300 a server.

Business travel costs continue to rise. Video conferencing is getting better and more affordable.

A Massachusetts' startup, Attivio, says it's licked a big problem in enterprise search.

Cheating is a problem in any teaching environment, but poses a special problem for distance learning, a technology that may be getting a big boost from Congress.

Landslide Technologies raises the bar for automating the sales process.

Even the legitimate, commercial part of the Internet cannot be considered safe.

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Enterprise search improves with cross-relationship terms, argues one taxonomy supplier.

This week Intrepidus Group Inc. of Chantilly, Va. unveils its PhishMe service. In effect, it gives IT the tool to phish its end users.

CEO Rohyt Belani says the new software-as-a-service lets you set up mock phishing attacks "to measure how aware employees are of phishing" and then educating them on how not to fall prey to phishers.