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Cisco Invest over $1 Billion for Cloud Business

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 Networking solutions provider Cisco has announced that it will invest over $1 billion to expand its cloud business globally over the next two years to capitalise on the increasing demand for such services. The company planned to deliver the ‘Cisco Cloud Service’ with and through partners, including Indian IT major Wipro, Australian telecom service provider Telstra, and tech distributor Ingram Micro Inc. Second phase “We are already leaders in private cloud. Now, we are moving to the second phase of our cloud strategy that is to become number one in hybrid cloud. We intend to build the world’s largest global Intercloud — a network of cloud — together with a set of partners,” Cisco Senior Vice President, Worldwide Cloud Sales and Go to Market, Nick Earle, told reporters here. “We have over 65,000 partners across the globe, and we will engage with them and offer open, high value networks that are secure,” he added. Besides building Cisco data centres, th

Deep Freeze

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Deep Freeze : Deep Freeze , by Faronics, is an application available for the Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X, and SUSE Linux operating systems which allows system administrators to protect the core operating system and configuration files on a workstation or server by restoring a computer back to its original configuration each time the computer restarts. Operation: Deep Freeze is a kernel-level driver that protects hard drive integrity by redirecting information being written to the hard drive or partition, leaving the original data intact. This redirected information is no longer referenced once the computer is restarted, thus restoring the system to its original state at the disk sector level. This allows users to make 'virtual' changes to the system, giving them the appearance that they can modify core files or even delete them, and even make the system unusable to themselves, but upon reboot the originally configured 'frozen' state of the operating