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HP Increases Revenue Opportunities for Channel Partners in Networking
Added 17th May 2012HP announced improvements to the HP PartnerONE and HP ExpertONE programs, enabling networking channel partners to increase market competitiveness and revenue opportunities.
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Microsoft Awaits $250 Mn Windfall from Facebook IPO
Added 17th May 2012Microsoft is all set to get a $250 million windfall when it sells 20 percent of its estimated 1.8 percent stake in Facebook in the forthcoming initial public offering (IPO) of the social networking giant.
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SAP puts its HANA in-memory database in the spotlight
Added 17th May 2012SAP seems to be betting its future on its HANA in-memory database, spotlighting the technology once again at the Sapphire conference in Orlando Wednesday, announcing a slew of new applications, partnerships and functional enhancements for the system.
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Compuware brings APM to cloud and Big Data applications
Added 17th May 2012Mainframe software company Compuware has updated its dynaTrace Enterprise product to enable organisations to simplify performance management of cloud and Big Data applications.
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Nvidia Makes the GPU Virtual
Added 17th May 2012Virtual machines is one way enterprise IT departments addresses the issue of security when users want to use their own platforms. Virtualized solutions like Citrix and VMWare allow users to run approved applications. These applications run in a server in the local or internet cloud.
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Juniper to license Radware tech for data center?
Added 17th May 2012Juniper Networks is negotiating a deal with Radware to license application delivery controller technology from the company, according to investment firm Oppenheimer & Co.In a bulletin issued this week, Oppenheimer states that Juniper would use the Radware ADC technology to integrate it with its QFabric data center switch architecture.
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Microsoft to charge $15 for Windows 8 upgrade deal
Added 16th May 2012Microsoft will charge users who buy a new Windows 7 PC $14.99 for an upgrade to Windows 8, according to a report. The cost of the upgrade was revealed yesterday by Paul Thurrott, a popular blogger who writes SuperSite for Windows.
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Five rising and declining security technologies: Forrester
Added 16th May 2012Security technologies rise and fall in popularity, and Forrester Research in its TechRadar report puts its bets on five it thinks are in a growth mode and five it thinks are dying away. Do you agree or disagree? Let us know.
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Intel incorporates security, management into Core vPro processors
Added 16th May 2012Intel today described management and security capabilities that will be part of its new Intel Core vPro processor family used in PCs, tablets, laptops and intelligent systems.
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SAP lays out cloud strategy post-SuccessFactors deal
Added 16th May 2012SAP announced a broad set of plans to become a player in cloud computing, spanning from a "loosely coupled suite" of business applications to data integration and PaaS Tuesday during the Sapphire conference.
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PC Users Admit to Pirating Software--$63 Billion Worth of It
Added 16th May 2012More than half of global PC users admit that they pirate software at least occasionally, contributing to a black-market economy estimated at $63.4 billion in 2011, up from $58.8 billion the previous year, according to a new survey from the Business Software Alliance.
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Red Hat preps RHEL 7 for second half of 2013
Added 16th May 2012The next major release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), version 7, is targeted for release in the second half of 2013, Red Hat said on Tuesday, as it also celebrated the tenth anniversary of its enterprise OS.
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Nvidia tries to link cloud with graphics processors
Added 16th May 2012Nvidia on Tuesday announced technologies that could make its upcoming Tesla graphics processors more accessible to cloud deployments in enterprises, while also reversing a trend of relegating highly parallel chips to specialized math and scientific calculations.
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Faking IT: 5 Executives Who Lied in Their Resumes
Added 15th May 2012Poor Scott Thompson. Just when his plan of revamping Yahoo was gaining steam, the falsified resume (or "Resume-Gate" as it shall forever be known) cut short his stint as CEO.
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Dell, IBM announce servers with new Intel Xeon chips
Added 15th May 2012Dell and IBM on Monday announced servers with Intel's latest Xeon server chips, which will bring faster throughput and memory allowing servers to take on more complex workloads while reducing data center costs.
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Five Things CIOs Should Know About Big Data
Added 15th May 2012Big data analysis got its start from the large Web service providers such as Google, Yahoo and Twitter, which all needed to make the most of their user generated data. But enterprises will big data analysis to stay competitive, and relevant, as well.
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SAP offers mobile device management on Amazon's cloud
Added 15th May 2012SAP's Afaria mobile device management tool is now available on Amazon Web Services' cloud, offered as a way to make it easier to start using the platform, SAP said at the Sapphire conference on Monday.
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EU-Microsoft browser deal requires ballot screen in Windows 8
Added 15th May 2012Microsoft declined to comment when asked whether it believed it's required to offer a ballot screen in Windows 8 to European users for selecting rival browsers in the new operating system's desktop mode.
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Microsoft cloud survey: Security, cost both a deterrent and an attraction
Added 15th May 2012Small and midsize businesses that actually use cloud services see them as a way to boost security and save money, according to a survey sponsored by Microsoft.The same survey finds similar-size businesses not using cloud services worry they might not be secure enough and that the costs of transitioning to them might be a hurdle.
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Levinsohn takes on CEO role at struggling Yahoo
Added 15th May 2012Just one day into the job, Yahoo's interim CEO Ross Levinsohn is in charge of a company struggling with administrative chaos, industry position and growing competitors.Even if the post is only temporary, Ross Levinsohn certainly has his job cut out for him.