Driven by rapidly increasing network traffic—with video, advanced wireless services and emerging trends such as cloud computing as key drivers—core …
Data center network brawl
Converged platforms that combine servers, storage and networking into a single system with common management tools are the future of …
OpenSource World offering free admission
Organizers of the upcoming OpenSource World conference broadened the event program and are offering free admission, hoping to attract more …
Symantec vows huge push into SaaS market
At its Financial Analyst Day event in San Francisco, Symantec's top executives vowed a major push into software-as-a service and …
Google looks to woo enterprise, sock it to Microsoft
In another move by Google to woo enterprises to its hosted software, the company unveiled Google Apps Synch for Microsoft …
Google unveils plug-in to marry Outlook, Gmail
Google unveiled synchronization technology that supports Microsoft Outlook as the front end to Gmail, giving users an option to scrap …
Juniper claims first with 100G Ethernet
The interface, for Juniper's T1600 core router, provides an order of magnitude increase over the 10Gbps interfaces available today. Its …
Will Oracle kill the Java community?
That's the question on everyone's mind at this year's JavaOne developer conference, the last show before Oracle's planned US$7.4 billion …
Sun tests new Java Store, Java Warehouse
Sun Microsystems Inc. has opened a test version of its Java Store, which it bills as a Web site where …
AMD pushes six-core chips for servers
Advanced Micro Devices announced six-core Opteron chips, which make them the fastest server chips the company has released to date. …
Desktop Linux: Why it may have lost its chance
Year after year, breathless pundits announce that the open source OS is on the verge of a tipping point, a …
Spammers find new ways to flood corporate networks
Unsolicited e-mail accounted for 90.4% of all messages received on corporate networks during April, an increase of 5.1% from a …
VMware to buy $20 million stake in Terremark
VMware is buying a 5 percent stake in Terremark, a close partner that provides collocation and managed infrastructure services using …
90 percent of e-mail is spam, Symantec says
Spammers seem to be working a little bit harder these days, according to Symantec, which reported that unsolicited e-mail made …
Vista launch best argument for Linux says IBM exec
It's the law of unintended consequences. Microsoft's launch Vista was the best recruiter for Linux on the desktop according to …
Twitter hit with phishing attacks
Twitter users who thought friends were directing them to a “funny blog” Thursday ended up experiencing something completely different: a …
VMware updates vSphere
After eight months of hype VMware has finally delivered the update to its core virtualization platform, announcing Thursday that vSphere …
Microsoft IT goes live with its Geneva identity platform
Two days after shipping the second beta of its newest identity platform, Microsoft's internal IT department is rolling out the …
Ballmer sees IT opportunities in economic recovery
Growth will have to come from higher productivity and innovation when the economy begins to recover, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer …
Android someday will outdistance the iPhone
The number of mobile phones using the Android operating system will eventually be huge, even if the number of Android …