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• Systems management, cloud services likely in Dell's software acquisition plans

  Feb 04, 2012: Dell's formation of a new software group, which was announced Thursday, could be the forerunner to a string of acquisitions by the vendor, with some observers predicting a focus on systems management and cloud services provisioning.

• Free, Cloud-Based Word Processor Zoho Writer Shows Promise

  Feb 04, 2012: Zoho Writer is an online (with offline and syncing functionality) word processing application that offers a nice amount of functionality, especially given the limitations of the Web as a platform for productivity tools. After creating a free account with Zoho, you can access Zoho Writer. It looks a lot like most word processors, so if you've used any major program in this category, it will take no more than a few minutes of poking around to learn how to do things. This is good, because the "Help" is in the form of a FAQ, not a tutorial or index of functions.

• SaaS, APTs and Asymmetric Risk Take Spotlight at Security Threats 2012

  Feb 03, 2012: What's your stance on SaaS? Is your perimeter as secure as you think? How can the insurance calculus on asymmetric risk illuminate your company's security exposure? CIO.com's Bernard Golden recaps the provocative discussions entertained at the Security Threat 2012 conference.

• OpenStack removes Hyper-V support in next release

  Feb 02, 2012: Despite Microsoft's stated commitment to Hyper-V in OpenStack, buggy code designed to support the hypervisor will be removed from the next version of the stack, developers decided on Wednesday.

• Megaupload user content safe for two more weeks

  Feb 01, 2012: Efforts are intensifying to retrieve data belonging to users of Megaupload's online storage service following the company's dramatic shuttering by U.S. law enforcement authorities this month.