Technology industry analysts, Technology Business Research (TBR) predict the IT market will be slow to adopt Cisco’s just released all-in-one Unified Computing System (UCS) and cautions that Cisco faces a considerable challenge to get customers to even consider bundled hardware and software.

Video conferencing telepresence vendor Tandberg has brought to the market a new video IP phone – the E20 – which it claims makes scalable, DVD-quality video on every desktop a reality.

Scribd, the world’s largest social publishing website, has secured agreements with major publishers to bring books and other professional works to its community of more than 50 million readers.
 

Websense, integrated web, data and email security solutions vendor, has named Queensland’s Data# as its 2008 Websense Partner of the Year for Australia and New Zealand.

The Australian Computer Society (ACS) has commended the federal government on ‘its visionary plans’ to provide up to $83 million to early stage start-up companies bringing promising new technologies and services to the market.

Virtualization vendor, VMware, has snapped up a senior manager from Computer Associates (CA) to head up its Asia Pacific and Japan regional business with responsibility for strategic planning, business development and management of key functions for the region, including sales, channels, services, finance and marketing.

Research in Motion (RIM) is supporting global Earth Hour on Saturday, 28 March with the launch of a dedicated mobile site for users of its BlackBerry smartphones.

LogiCamms, Perth-based national machine and stockyard automation specialists, is to deploy a myDIALS on-demand performance improvement platform.

Software AG is launching AlignSpace, which it says is the first and largest social network for business process management (BPM) professionals in the market.

Business management software vendor, Sybiz, says escalating sales volumes in the Australian and New Zealand market has brought about two new appointments to its sales and marketing team.