As the IEEE 802.11n standard approaches ratification, expected in two weeks, mainstream enterprises will become more serious about investing in …
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Wi-Fi cell phones expected to double in two years
Global shipments of Wi-Fi-enabled cell phones are expected to double between 2009 and 2011, at least partially due to the …
VMware unwraps virtualization management tools
VMware has revealed several new virtualization management products to be announced at VMworld, but is so far shying away from …
Forrester: Social networking grows up
Companies can begin to target people over the age of 34 with media campaigns that leverage social networks as that …
Fujitsu aims for 10-petaflop supercomputer
Fujitsu aims to deliver by early 2011 a 10-petaflop supercomputer, which would be almost 10 times more powerful than today's …
IBM nabs British Petroleum outsourcing contract
IBM announced that it had inked a five-year outsourcing deal with British Petroleum to manage the oil company's enterprise applications …
Autodesk appoints OMNIX as value-added distributor in Saudi Arabia
Autodesk, the world leader in 2D and 3D design software for the manufacturing, building, and media and entertainment markets, further …
Personal spy gear: Is it legal?
These days, if you want to watch over your house, your kids or your significant other, there's a whole world …
NetApp reveals cloud computing plan, new Data OnTap OS
NetApp Inc. unveiled products and services designed to support cloud computing architectures used in the data centers of its enterprise-class …
The new face of virtualization
From its genesis in x86-based servers, virtualization technology has spread rapidly into storage and the network. Today, it's at your …
USB 3 chip will bring RAID to external drives
Symwave, one of the first companies to design silicon for USB 3.0, is revealing more details today about its SOC …
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The cloud could be a boon for flash storage
Cloud computing and flash-based storage, two fast-emerging IT technologies, are driving each other forward as users of Internet-based services like …
Microsoft Exchange 2010 hits final beta
Microsoft issued the final beta on Exchange Server 2010 along with the final beta of its security companion, Forefront for …
NetApp names new CEO
The transition in leadership, which is effective immediately, is the result of a management succession process. Georgens, 49, has been …
BlackBerry takes app store to desktop
If you find browsing for new applications on your BlackBerry to be a slow and cumbersome process, fear not: Research …
Red Hat, IBM, Novell major contributors to exploding Linux kernel development
Red Hat, IBM and Novell remain the top contributors to the Linux kernel, an open source project that has grown …
How to build a 100,000-port Ethernet switch
University of California at San Diego researchers are presenting a paper describing software that they say could make data center …
Apple loses customer satisfaction points
Apple experienced a dip in customer satisfaction rankings during the second quarter, as Windows-based PC vendors saw slight improvements — …
Microsoft issues SQL Azure, CEP platform previews
Microsoft released technology previews of SQL Azure, the database for its Azure cloud infrastructure platform, and SQL Server StreamInsight, its …
Playing for high stakes
NWME: The Data Domain acquisition is pretty much a done deal at this point. How are things going? Hauck: We …