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 …
HP unveils blade PCs and Citrix virtualization bundle
HP is unveiling the fourth generation of its blade PC line and bundling the devices with Citrix XenDesktop 3 virtualization …
HP, IBM push new OASIS encryption key standard
A group of industry vendors, led by IBM, Hewlett-Packard and EMC, is proposing a new standard to make their encryption …
Apple issues massive security update for Mac OS X
Apple issued multiple updates for Mac OS X and Java that patched 55 bugs, including one for its Safari Web …
Cloud computing obstacles, opportunities
UC Berkeley researchers have outlined their view of cloud computing, which they say has great opportunity to exploit unprecedented IT …
Smart moves
Brocade is already the top player by market share in the modular SAN switch market, ahead of second-place Cisco. Acquiring …
Fiber Channel, CEE, and FCoE – what they’re really all about
Over the last ten years, Fiber Channel has become the standard technology worldwide for Storage Area Networks (SANs) and external …
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 …
Force10 unveils virtualization framework
Force10 Networks this week unveiled a blueprint for easing the management of virtualized data centers. The framework includes a suite …
BlackBerry enterprise server zooms in on IT management tools
Research In Motion Ltd. officials offered a broad-brush preview of Argon, the code name for RIM's BlackBerry Enterprise Server 5.0, …
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 …
What do standards mean?
We all know what a meter, hectare, litre, and second mean, but we may not be aware of the standards …
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 …
Sun offers integrated Web platform
Sun will roll out a primarily open source Web application platform based on the GlassFish Java application server. The platform, …
Managing software assets
The current climate of company mergers and downsizing is putting CIOs under pressure to keep the lid on software costs …
The cloud-SOA connection
Cloud computing may have overtaken SOA as the trendy technology term du jour, but the two concepts can be paired …
Mozilla to join EU suit against Microsoft
The European Commission has granted Mozilla, the open-source collaboration behind the Firefox Web browser, the right to join the antitrust …
IBM, Juniper join in cloud strategy
IBM and Juniper on Monday provided a sneak peek at technology that lets enterprise IT managers easily reallocate computing resources …