Enterprises and service providers spent more money on storage in the second quarter, emboldened by growing IT budgets, research company …
Dell unveils next-gen EqualLogic arrays
Dell has announced a refresh of its midrange line of EqualLogic storage arrays, which are aimed at small-to-midsize businesses and …
Server shipments, revenue grow, Gartner says
Worldwide server shipments in the second quarter of 2011 grew 8 percent year on year, while revenue moved upward 19.5 …
Worldwide server revenues increase 19.5% – Gartner
Worldwide server shipments in the second quarter of 2011 grew 8% year on year, while revenue moved upward 19.5% year …
The PC is the new mainframe: IBM
“The PC is dead!” We’ve heard that message a lot since the birth of Apple’s iPad, but when one of …
Red Hat to deliver Java EE6 via PaaS with OpenShift
Red Hat, the provider of open source solutions, today announced that the Red Hat OpenShift Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) now supports Java …
What happens to Samsung, LG, HTC after Google’s acquisition of Motorola?
While Google’s acquistion of Motorola Mobility is huge news, it draws the bigger question as to what it means for …
Start-up releases all-in-one VMware server, storage appliance
Start-up Nutanix yesterday launched its first product, a slim, virtualised server that is clustered together with solid state and hard …
Champions of value addition 2011
The combination of global economic changes and new technology life cycles has made global IT vendors more accountable for the …
New breed of champions
During the Reseller conference in June 2011, two presentations got me thinking. The first was from HP’s Hemayun on vendor-partner …
Samsung aims to drive up tablet storage with new SSDs
Tablet users may need more storage capacity in the future, and Samsung Semiconductor announced it is now making its fastest …
VMware preparing DLP features for vShield
At the upcoming VMworld conference, VMware plans to highlight new data-loss prevention capabilities in an updated version of its virtual …
Back to the roots
Massive layoffs. Lagging stock. Declining profits. Cisco has never had it so bad since 2001 in the aftermath of the …
Microsoft kicks off $250,000 security contest
Microsoft has launched a $250,000 contest for researchers who develop defensive security technologies that deal with entire classes of exploits, …
Motorola unveils latest industrial-class fixed RFID reader
Motorola Solutions, a provider of mission-critical communication products and services for enterprise and government customers, today introduced the FX9500 industrial-class …
eBay swaps hard-disk arrays with SSD storage to deploy more VMs
When online auction site eBay had problems meeting the I/O storage demands of business units starved for more virtual machine …
Dice.com lists five IT skills hiring managers want now
Ever wonder which up-and-coming tech skills are catching the attention of IT hiring managers? Careers site Dice.com keeps track of …
Facebook acquires a digital book software start-up
Facebook has acquired Push Pop Press, a start-up that has developed software for creating highly interactive digital books, for an …
Processor shipment forecasts take the plunge: IDC
IDC dropped its growth forecast for yearly processor shipments worldwide due to a slowdown in consumer laptop sales in mature …
Alcatel-Lucent confirms Enterprise business may be sold
Alcatel-Lucent this week confirmed it is “exploring strategic options” for its Enterprise business, a non-core asset that’s been reported to …