NWME: What brings you to this part of the world? The Middle East is important for us. This region is …
Cisco, VMware create method for long-distance VMotion
Cisco and VMware created some buzz at the VMworld show in San Francisco on Tuesday by announcing a method for …
Cisco UCS, Nexus 1000 virtual switches power VMworld labs but suffer glitches
A year after introducing the Nexus 1000 virtual switch, Cisco is using that switch and its unified computing system servers …
Western Digital's 7200 rpm 2 TB Hard drives
Western Digital today announced that it is now shipping desktop 7200 RPM 2 TB and is qualifying with OEMs enterprise-class …
IE tumbles, Firefox regains market share mojo
Last month, Microsoft Corp.'s Internet Explorer posted its largest market share loss since November 2008, while Firefox reaped nearly all …
EMC to acquire legal discovery vendor Kazeon
EMC said it will buy Kazeon Systems, a company that develops products for collecting and analyzing electronic information for legal …
VMware partners to offer Amazon-like compute services
VMware Inc. announced a new program that will allow its service-provider partners to offer pay-as-you go computing services similar to …
Hitachi releases high-performance 500GB laptop hard drive
Hitachi Global Storage Technologies today announced it's shipping the fifth generation of its 7200-rpm, 2.5-inch laptop hard disk drive that, …
Savvis unveils cloud-based service
Savvis will announce a next-generation cloud computing platform that it claims is the first fully virtualized private data center offering …
The ABCs of WAN optimization savings
WAN-optimization gear has evolved from one-trick point products – compression boxes, QoS appliances, TCP optimizers, caching devices – into equipment …
Malware, e-mail scams on the rize: Fortinet
Fortinet announced its August 2009 Threatscape Report, vacations may be wrapping up towards the end of summer, but there was …
Vodafone switches on more 3G mobile coverage
Mobile carrier Vodafone has switched on high-speed 3G network services with a focus on regional areas. The upgrade boosts Vodafone's …
IBM puts virtual desktops in the cloud
IBM is rolling out a subscription service that aims to make it easier for large companies to use desktop virtualization, …
AMD ships low-power six-core Opteron chip
Advanced Micro Devices introduced a low-power variant of its six-core Opteron server chip, which is codenamed Istanbul. The Opteron 2419 …
EMC acquires cloud support vendor FastScale
EMC has acquired FastScale Technology, a vendor of software for data centers, in an effort to focus on supporting private …
EMC to resell VMware management software
EMC will resell virtualization management software from VMware alongside its own Ionix management platform in an expanded partnership aimed at …
WAN optimization specialist NetEx targets VMware environments
As the industry prepares for next week’s big VMworld show, one WAN optimization player is highlighting its ability to accelerate …
Prepping for a standard 11n world
As the IEEE 802.11n standard approaches ratification, expected in two weeks, mainstream enterprises will become more serious about investing in …
Dell, HP back Microsoft in Word legal battle
Dell Inc. and Hewlett-Packard Co., the world's two largest computer makers, have sided with Microsoft in its appeal of a …
Facebook to tighten privacy after Canadian investigation
Facebook will enhance its social-networking site's privacy features over the next 12 months as a result of a set of …