While information security has became the most important aspect for any form of business process, the mushrooming of vendors in …
Economic crisis means hard times, hard decisions for IT
As the economic news continues to get bleaker, double-digit budget cuts are becoming a fact of life in many IT …
Microsoft confirms IE8 kill switch in Windows 7
Microsoft Corp. confirmed that users will be able to remove Internet Explorer 8 (IE8), as well as several other integrated …
Ballmer promises faster Windows Mobile development
Under pressure from popular phones from Apple and Research In Motion, Microsoft hopes it has put in place changes that …
Cloud computing not fully enterprise-ready, IT execs say
Educational Testing Service, the developer of the SAT and other standardized tests, runs applications on software-as-a-service platforms such as Salesforce.com. …
HP ProCurve network port Sales grows 20 percent
In a market that saw shipments decline for the majority of vendors of Layer 2 through Layer 7 switched ports, …
Storm clouds ahead
Cloud computing, which refers primarily to an on-demand service delivery model that may span both outsourced and premises-based platforms, is …
Tandberg partners with ITS
The agreement signed today by TANDBERG and International Turnkey Systems Group (ITS), not only reaffirms their continued investment commitment into …
Network management vendors land hefty venture funding
Venture capital investors continued confidence in management software makers was displayed Wednesday as Apparent Networks and Aveksa separately reported they …
More specialty Linuxes to the rescue
The day of the mold-your-own OS has come, and Linux is the clay. Linux provides free and open access to …
Sun says its new data center will save $1 million a year
Sun Microsystems Inc. has unveiled a new data center in Broomfield, Colo., the result of the largest — and greenest …
Red Hat debuts virtualization software
Red Hat Inc. today introduced an entire line of virtualization software aimed at disrupting current market leader VMware Inc.'s position …
EMC adds flash to another array
EMC is introducing three storage arrays with options for solid-state disks, and is offering de-duplication and compression of primary storage …
Open-source toolkit aimed at telcos
Although the IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) has become the default architecture for telcos to deliver services such as SMS, voicemail …
Gartner: Don’t assume SaaS is cheaper
IT managers should not assume that software as a service (SaaS) is cheaper than on-premises software, according to Gartner Inc. …
Storage management solution for VMware environments
The StorMagic SvSAN is designed to enable the deployment of a high-availability shared storage solution for VMware ESX environments for …
Microsoft Visual Studio to boost SharePoint
Developers building solutions based on Microsoft's SharePoint collaboration and business process platform will gain expanded support in the planned Visual …
Firefox 3.1 delivery slips
Some Mozilla Corp. developers have recommended that the company consider yanking the new JavaScript engine, dubbed TraceMonkey, from Firefox 3.1 …
Virtual desktops ripe for deployment, hindered by cost
Desktop virtualization, with its promises of improved security, manageability and flexibility, may be on the verge of huge adoption, some …
CommVault Introduces Simpana 8 data management software
The release helps companies manage larger amounts of data, scale to accommodate an expanding, globally distributed enterprise, and implement cost-saving …