Some industry observers still like to kick dents in the mainframe saying it’s not the corporate platform of the future …
Meet Google's 'Data Liberation Front'
You say you want a revolution? Google's hoping you do — at least, when it comes to being able to …
EMC lures away Intel's Gelsinger
EMC has remade its management team by luring a high-ranking executive away from Intel, potentially setting up a succession process …
Google helps users jump ship to rival Web services
In a move that flouts common business logic, Google is making it as easy as possible for people to migrate …
Salesforce.com renews push into customer service
Salesforce.com will make a series of announcements regarding its Service Cloud customer-service applications, which are a major part of the …
Juniper invests in data center switch vendor Blade
The amount Juniper invested in Blade's $10 million B round of funding was not disclosed. Privately held Blade has accumulated …
Symantec adds Quorum antimalware analysis to consumer security software
Symantec this week is taking the wraps off the 2010 editions of its flagship antimalware consumer software, Norton AntiVirus and …
The high cost of wide area networking
Given the combination of the economic malaise and the sensationalism that surrounds topics such as cloud computing and server virtualization, …
The Linux Foundation's grand new ambitions for Linux
Like a fervent preacher appearing before his flock, Linux Foundation Executive Director Jim Zemlin emphasized benefits and potential for the …
Red Hat releases first KVM support with RHEL 5.4
Red Hat for the first time included KVM hypervisor technology in a release of its Enterprise Linux operating system, kicking …
Cisco UCS, Nexus 1000 virtual switches power VMworld labs but suffer glitches
A year after introducing the Nexus 1000 virtual switch, Cisco is using that switch and its unified computing system servers …
Google to let Apps users try out Wave
Google will let some users of its Apps suite test-drive in the fall its Wave collaboration and communication tool, the …
VMware partners to offer Amazon-like compute services
VMware Inc. announced a new program that will allow its service-provider partners to offer pay-as-you go computing services similar to …
EMC to resell VMware management software
EMC will resell virtualization management software from VMware alongside its own Ionix management platform in an expanded partnership aimed at …
WAN optimization specialist NetEx targets VMware environments
As the industry prepares for next week’s big VMworld show, one WAN optimization player is highlighting its ability to accelerate …
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 …
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 …
Managed security services all the rage
It's an understatement to say that IT organizations face exceptionally challenging times. For many, budget cutbacks for 2009 were worse …
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 …
A pioneering spirit
MEEZA, a Qatar Foundation joint venture, was founded as recently as in 2008 in Qatar but is rapidly building up …