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 …
Untangling Windows Upgrades
IT managers are facing a perfect storm of Windows upgrade options. While the Windows 7 beta has garnered some of …
Sun premiering JavaFX Mobile component
Proceeding to a critical phase in the rollout of its JavaFX platform for rich media client applications, Sun will ship …
Wi-Fi vs. prepaid 3G data dongles
There are some attractive emerging options for getting international mobile voice services with predictable, flat-fee pricing models, as discussed last …
Microsoft lashes out at Adobe over Silverlight comments
Microsoft is crying foul over recent comments made by an Adobe executive that Silverlight has “fizzled” as a competitor to …
Avaya goes green
Around the world, businesses and organizations are reducing carbon emissions and improving customer service, productivity and flexibility using communications technologies …
10 facts about Solid State Disks
Those who are deciding whether or not to buy should be familiar with these ten essential facts about SSDs. 1.SSDs …
Contracting economy forces new cellular priorities
The only reason an enterprise IT professional would go to this year's Mobile World Congress is to track down a …
Down economy fuels IT outsourcing
Companies flocked to IT outsourcing vendors as the recession unfolded last year and industry watchers expect more of the same …
NAS devices offer big storage on small networks
We are collecting and keeping more information today than ever before. Whether it's video, pictures, music, or just plain old …
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 …
Smart moves
Brocade is already the top player by market share in the modular SAN switch market, ahead of second-place Cisco. Acquiring …
Looking inside the MPLS network
Visibility into the service providers' networks has always been a bit of a conundrum. The simpler the network, the less …
Simplifying JBoss migrations
Red Hat has launched a new open-source project the company said is aimed at making it easier for enterprises to …
IBM floats software in Amazon’s cloud
IBM is delivering some of its infrastructure software as an on-demand service through Amazon Web Services, the companies said, helping …
CA software update manages risk intelligently
Companies dealing with compliance, regulatory standards and business needs could consider taking on each project as they come, but Michael …
WAN critical to virtualization’s payoff
Guaranteeing application performance over a WAN is hard enough. Now try doing it in a virtual environment. WAN optimization vendors …
IBM, Juniper join in cloud strategy
Using cloud management software from IBM's Tivoli division and a Juniper network, the companies demonstrated a drag-and-drop interface for managing …
FVC adds Google Apps to partner agreement
The agreement will allow FVC to offer its enterprise customers across the Middle East & North Africa with the full …