Trust-based solution and services provider Keynectis acquires OpenTrust, a market leader in enterprise and government trusted infrastructure solutions. 

The sale should help Keynectis increase its growth, particularly within the international market where OpenTrust is already well known.

The companies say the acquisition should increase Keynetis' export sales "to over 30% of total revenues."

Transaction procedures are to close this summer. 

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Western Digital enters small-office server market with a new product promising to be a "complete storage solution for the small business market". 

This announcement comes with the company's OEM software agreement with Microsoft-- resulting in a combination of WD's storage technologies with Microsofot's Storage Server 2008 R2 Essentials OS. 

The server product should provide centralised online storage capacity ideal for today's business environment, with advanced online features allowing for easy and secure information sharing with clients anywhere Read more...

RIM announces its earning for its fiscal Q1 2012, where WW revenues fall by -12% from the previous quarter, reaching totals of $4.9Bn-- a drop the company describes as "challenging". 

The company breaks down this total as 78% hardware, 20% service and 2% software. 

However RIM also says its international revenue for Q1 shows 67% Y-o-Y growth.

The earnings results also revealing its shipment totals for the quarter-- 13.2m Blackberry handheld devices and around 500000 Playbook tablets. 

The Playbook's underwhelming performance is currently US only, as Read more...

Dolby Laboratories files patent-infringement lawsuits in Germany and the US against Research in Motion, claiming "many RIM products" infringe patents covering digital audio compression technologies. 

Dolby says Dolby International (its wholly owned subsidiary) will seek both financial damages and an injunction against sales of RIM devices allegdly using its technology. 

The "many RIM products" include Blackberry handsets as well as the Playbook tablet. 

Dolby continues "all other major smartphone makers" license the same technologies (part of an international Read more...

Gigabyte shows off 4 new server motherboard solutions at Computex 2011-- all based on Intel's Romley platform, with more options for customisation. 

The Romley-based motherboards support greater memory density (up to 24 DIMMs), PCI Express 3.0 and integrated SAS, alongside integrated graphics and remote management. 

While the standard Romley board carries 5-6 expansion slots, Gigabyte also has a 4-slot version-- not only reducing base costs, but also improving the system's thermal design and increases room on the board itself for additional features.  Read more...

Chief announces its latest addition to its Raxxess AV rack system family, the G1 series. 

The G1 Series is meant to be easy to install, and includes pre-welded ganging nuts and easily accessible hardware-- allowing installers to gang racks after loading components. 

The front and rear rack rails are adjustable, while optional doors are reversible, locking and fit the rack's front or rear. 

A vented removable bottom cover panel provides extra mounting space, and the horizontal rack rail comes with cable management slots-- allowing for easy cable management. Read more...