Acer has jumped head first into the smartphone market with its Tempo family of devices. They are all touch-enabled and …
Untangling Windows Upgrades
IT managers are facing a perfect storm of Windows upgrade options. While the Windows 7 beta has garnered some of …
Down economy fuels IT outsourcing
Companies flocked to IT outsourcing vendors as the recession unfolded last year and industry watchers expect more of the same …
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, …
Managing software assets
The current climate of company mergers and downsizing is putting CIOs under pressure to keep the lid on software costs …
Reaching toward unity
Storage resource management (SRM) products provide the means for collecting information on the heterogeneous resources – operating systems, host computers, …
Economy could slow enterprise adoption of Windows 7
The turbulent economy could hinder enterprise adoption of Windows 7, even though many companies opted to skip Windows Vista and …
Trends that will change our lives
The past two years have been exciting ones for mobility, with the dawn of netbooks, 4G communications and the first …
Outsourcing on the rise
Amidst the slowdown, some companies are outsourcing some of their IT needs as a cost-cutting strategy or a means of …
VMware goes open source
VMware has released open source desktop virtualization software designed to let its business partners optimize thin clients for the delivery …
Seagate releases 2TB enterprise-class drive
Seagate Technology LLC launched its first 2TB enterprise-class disk drive as part of a new family of near-line SAS and …
How carriers will weather the recession
Although Verizon and AT&T have continued to post solid earnings over the past year, they are unlikely to emerge from …
A versatile NAC
Few customers of network access control use it for what it was intended, preferring instead to deploy the security technology …
WhiteHouse.gov gets quick overhaul
While Barack Obama was being sworn in as president last week, his administration was unveiling a redesigned WhiteHouse.gov Web site …
How to cut IT costs without hemorrhaging
With no fat left to trim, how can IT managers keep cutting costs without damaging core services? Many industry professionals …
Ballmer provides grim outlook as economy ‘resets’
Speaking to financial analysts on the heels of Microsoft's announcement of layoffs and a disappointing second quarter, CEO Steve Ballmer …
Heartland data breach could be bigger than TJX’s
A data breach disclosed Tuesday by Heartland Payment Systems may well displace TJX Companies' January 2007 breach in the record …
Intel to shut four plants, lay off 6,000
Amidst a bevy of bad news in the PC market, Intel Corp. took two corrective steps this week, aggressively slashing …
Battle brewing over next-generation private clouds
Enterprises could make their datacenters more efficient by turning them into private computing clouds — but the biggest winners could …
Striving for best possible outcome
Forget “doing more with less” — that's the IT mantra of yesteryear. Now IT departments are making better use of …