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 …
Worldwide virtualisation software revenue to grow 43 percent
Global virtualisation penetration is on pace to reach 20 per cent in 2009 from 12 per cent in 2008. Its …
BlackBerry Curve 8900 hits the hotspot with VoIP
RIM has developed a knack for pulling customers into new BlackBerry devices. That's no mean feat. BlackBerry is the most …
Sun offers open-source encryption key management protocol
Sun Microsystems Inc. announced that it is throwing its hat into the standards arena, proposing that its open-source key management …
Alcatel-Lucent unveils new elements of LTE portfolio
To help wireless and converged service providers meet the accelerating demand for broadband wireless data services, Alcatel-Lucent today introduced a …
Microsoft, Red Hat sign interoperability agreements
In what came as a surprise to many Linux observers, Red Hat announced on the morning of February 16th that …
Loving the cloud
Back in 1991, before the Internet was a big deal, Ohio State University technologist Jerry Martin signalled the nascent Internet's …
Acer takes on smartphone market
Acer has jumped head first into the smartphone market with its Tempo family of devices. They are all touch-enabled and …
IBM leads IT out of the data center
IBM plans to help customers broaden IT's reach beyond the data center and into managing physical environments, cloud services and …
Cloud computing obstacles, opportunities
UC Berkeley researchers have outlined their view of cloud computing, which they say has great opportunity to exploit unprecedented IT …