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 …
Simplifying JBoss migrations
Red Hat has launched a new open-source project the company said is aimed at making it easier for enterprises to …
The cloud-SOA connection
Cloud computing may have overtaken SOA as the trendy technology term du jour, but the two concepts can be paired …
Mixing green flavor in high performance computing
The supercomputing world is one of giant government labs, big machines and speeds measured in hundreds of trillions of calculations …
Microsoft enhances office communication with better voice
Nearly 16 months after launching its unified communications platform and taking aim at replacing the venerable PBX, Microsoft now has …
Lenovo’s Amelio resigns, Yang returns as CEO
Amelio, a former Dell executive who led a broad restructuring of Lenovo's worldwide operations, is the second American CEO to …
Samsung deal to make chips for Xilinx shows progress
Samsung Electronics announced a deal to produce advanced logic chips for U.S. chip designer Xilinx, which could spell trouble for …
Meet Bruce, who builds Supercomputer himself
Bruce Allen is perhaps the world's best do-it-yourselfer. When he needed a supercomputer to crunch the results of gravitational-wave research, …
Drive makers agree on TCG encryption standard
The world's largest disk drive makers have pledged to support three new Trusted Computing Group (TCG) encryption standards for hard …
Citrix slashing head count
Citrix plans to cut 10% of its staff, or about 460 employees, the company said after posting disappointing earnings this …
Start-up VMOps aims to ease cloud deployments
Building a cloud computing infrastructure can be a complicated endeavor, but stealth start-up VMOps hopes to provide a silver lining …
Juniper names ex-Nortel exec CMO
Lauren Flaherty replaces CMO Penny Wilson, who had held the post for two years. Wilson replaced Jeff Lindholm, who had …
Full-disk encryption for all computer drives
The world's six largest computer drive makers today published the final specifications(download PDF) for a single, full-disk encryption standard that …
Backup merger unites Barracuda, Yosemite
With the addition of software agents from Yosemite, Barracuda can offer incremental backups of applications such as Microsoft Exchange Server …
Microsoft pulls PerformancePoint Server after just 15 months
Microsoft said that it was folding its business process management (BPM) software, PerformancePoint Server, into its popular SharePoint Server product. …
Google brings Gmail offline
Google rolled out a new wrinkle in its Gmail service: Offline e-mail for businesses using Google Apps and for consumer …
HP readies for Cisco’s data center assault
HP ProCurve this week will unveil its first switches built specifically for data center applications, as well as a server …
Recession whacks IT earnings
IT investors on Thursday got hit with a tsunami of earnings reports for the quarter ending in December. Google's report …
AMD working on extra-low-power chip
Advance Micro Devices Inc. (AMD) is adding a new, low-power Opteron processor to its Shanghai line roadmap and it plans …