Forty-two percent of CIOs suffered budget decreases in the first quarter of 2009, and IT shops on average slashed budgets …
Dell, CommVault release bundled de-duplication appliance
Dell and CommVault Systems announced their first integrated data management appliance with embedded block-level deduplication – the Dell PowerVault DL2000. …
3Com switches picked over Cisco
Quinnipiac University in Hamden, Conn., has embarked on a total network upgrade covering three campuses, using H3C core and edge …
Adobe sets up local office in Dubai
Adobe Systems today announced the opening of a local office for the company’s Middle East region, based in Dubai, a …
Kingston Technology ships SSD upgrade kits
Kingston has rolled out SSDNow V “value” Series solid-state drive (SSD) solution, targeted specifically to everyday users and small and medium …
EMC set to acquire Configuresoft
EMC Corporation has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Configuresoft, a server configuration, change and compliance management software company. The latest announcement extends …
Watch your data
Reliable access to information is the lifeblood of any business; it allows users to sell products, answer customers’ questions, work …
UTM: How to choose 'em and use 'em
UTM systems have multiple features and capabilities, including intrusion detection and prevention, gateway antivirus, e-mail spam filtering and Web content …
Trend Micro upgrades data-loss prevention software
Trend Micro announced an updated version of its Windows desktop-based data-loss prevention software in two editions; one “Standard” for monitoring …
Palm Pre launch is high-stakes gamble
The launch day for the Palm Pre smartphone, will be a big day all around for Palm, struggling carrier Sprint …
Bing overtakes Yahoo in global search wars
It didn't take very long – less than a week – for Microsoft's Bing to surpass Yahoo to become the …
Bucking the trend
While IT budgets continue to remain flat worldwide, one area that seems to have dodged the bullet is that of …
Making apps faster
Application Delivery Network (ADN) solutions address this need by providing an application-focused layer of infrastructure that significantly reduces a business' …
On the comeback trail
3Com's rallying cry will be lower total cost of ownership for IT shops reeling from high vendor premiums during the …
Data Domain asks shareholders to wait on EMC buyout offer
Data Domain's board told its stockholders to await recommendation on an unsolicited, all-cash offer by EMC when weighing NetApp's more …
EMC doesn't need Data Domain, but damages chief rival NetApp
In an industry where bidding wars come around about as often as leap years, the battle between storage rivals NetApp …
IDC: Recession driving down storage spending
Hard times are driving large enterprises to patch holes in their storage architectures with systems designed for small and medium-sized …
Microsoft plans jumbo patch day
Microsoft said it will deliver 10 security updates next week to patch serious bugs in Windows, Internet Explorer (IE), Word …
Indirect sales set to grow worldwide
PC customer buying preferences will continue to push the PC market from direct to indirect during the next four years, …
How to cut network expenses
Trimming network redundancy at the University of Connecticut's School of Business was certainly not COO Michael Vertefeuille's first choice to …