No surprises in the fact that the first half of 2009 has been among the most testing times for the …

Context-aware mobility, what is it?
By now, companies that have mobilized business applications for smartphones or other handheld devices know of the competitive advantages they …

Firefox 3.5 makes browsing faster, easier and more fun
The just-released version 3.5 of Firefox is a winner, offering significantly faster Web browsing, better tab handling, a host of …

Cisco sends employees home to work
Cisco revealed it has garnered more than $277 million in productivity savings by letting employees work from home using the …

Busting the nine myths of cloud computing
Wherever you turn, someone's ready to tell (or sell) you something related to cloud computing. Cutting through the myths is …

Open-source routers attracting enterprise IT
Many large IT operations are extensively using open-source technology — in operating systems, applications, development tools and databases. So why …

What is a router?
Is a router still a router even if forwarding packets is just one of its many jobs? More and more …

vSphere brings storage flexibility, better speed for SaaS
When VMware launched its latest virtualization platform, vSphere, it introduced the phrase “cloud operating system” to the IT industry. The …
In search of specialist VARs
Motorola as a company has considerable consumer recall as a mobile phone manufacturer. But the same may not hold true …

Making apps faster
Application Delivery Network (ADN) solutions address this need by providing an application-focused layer of infrastructure that significantly reduces a business' …

WiMAX Forum looks to femtocells to improve coverage
Looking to improve indoor coverage for WiMAX devices, the WiMAX Forum is partnering with the Femto Forum to create a …
Crossing over to a new era
The building that houses Seven Seas headquarters near Lamzy Plaza in Oud Mehta, Dubai looks quite modest from the outside …

Google Wave: A new kind of mega-application
Google Wave, an upcoming Web application that mixes old technologies like e-mail, IM and online documents in a unified, socially-oriented …

How much work can you do on a Smartphone?
Portable yet powerful, the laptop has become the machine of choice for the modern business user. But for anyone with …
Security is paramount
Paramount belongs to the rare breed of security VARs that were quite early to sight the potential that IT security domain …
Riding the strength of focus
Advanced networking technologies is the terrain of the solution providers who have rich expertise to offer when it comes to …
SSD performance — is a slowdown inevitable?
The recent revelation that Intel Corp.’s consumer-class solid-state disk (SSD) drives suffer from fragmentation that can cause a significant performance …

Polycom enhances video recording, streaming and content managment
“Use of live video broadcasts and on-demand video content is growing rapidly in the enterprise, government agencies, healthcare organisations, and …

Can you afford telepresence systems?
Like the technology itself, the definition of telepresence is morphing as the costs go down and the market increases. Originally, …

Cisco unveils a grab bag of wireless LAN products
Cisco unveiled a grab bag of wireless LAN announcements at Interop, including much of what you'd expect in the form …


