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HP Gives Scale-Out Architecture Extreme Makeover June 11, 2009 
HP on Wednesday announced its Extreme Scale-Out portfolio, intended to cut data center costs for businesses involved in heavy Web 2.0, cloud computing and high-performance computing activities. Such companies typically have data centers with thousands of servers. The HP ExSO portfolio includes a lightweight modular system architecture, as well as services and support.
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Sun Reports Poor Q3 but Investors Unfazed April 29, 2009 
Sun Microsystems has reported a $201 million loss for Q3 2009, a significant increase over the loss of $34 million that it registered in the same quarter a year ago. At $2.6 billion, third-quarter revenue fell short of Wall Street's forecast of $2.86 million and was a steep drop from the $3.3 billion the company realized in Q3 2008.
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Storage Operations: Opportunities in Tough Times April 01, 2009 
You do not need another diatribe on how tough the economy is and how the next tsunami is hitting IT departments. You have seen the signs and have to take necessary actions: budget cuts, pay cuts. You know the drill. However, bad times need not be all doom and gloom -- they can be times of opportunity for your IT department.
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Wrestling With the Woes of WAN Application Delivery March 31, 2009 
Small- to medium-sized enterprises require that inventory, customer relationship management, sales and accounting applications be available beyond the LAN via the Internet. Local employees, telecommuters, business partners and customers must have unhindered access to critical applications or a company risks adversely affecting productivity and profitability.
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The Deepest Shade of Green March 23, 2009 
Talk is cheap when it comes to going green. It's one thing for IT managers to remind a company's workers to throttle back on wasteful energy use now and then and recycle old equipment effectively; it's quite another to implement real energy-saving procedures. More times than not, companies do more talking about being green than actually working to greenify their operations.
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IBM Acquisition Would Leave Sun Out in the Cold March 23, 2009 
From the perspective of IT users, developer communities and global industry as a whole, IBM may be the worst place for beleaguered Sun Microsystems to land. Sure a merger as is rumored is good -- but not urgently or obviously so -- for IBM. Big Blue gains modest improvement in share of some servers, mostly Unix-based.
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Adamo Springs Forth From Dell, Sun Sets in IBM's Backyard March 23, 2009 
The U.S. stock market had a really happy week last week. The market was on a long rally, and a number of high-profile technology vendors made interesting moves. The first was the release of Dell's Adamo product -- the first laptop offering that really was rethought as more of an art project than a typical laptop. While expensive, it actually feels worth it.
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Cisco Falls Head Over Heels for Flip March 19, 2009 
Networking giant Cisco Systems continues its aggressive push into the consumer sector with the acquisition of Flip Video camera maker Pure Digital Technologies for a whopping $590 million in stock. "The acquisition of Pure Digital is key to Cisco's strategy to expand our momentum in the media-enabled home and to capture the consumer market transition to visual networking," said Cisco's Ned Hooper.
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Big Blue Skies for Sun? March 18, 2009 
Computing giant IBM could be close to buying struggling server maker Sun Microsystems for $7 billion, according to a Wall Street Journal report. Though Sun is best known for making high-end servers, the crown jewel of the company's technology portfolio is its software, especially the widespread Internet programming language known as "Java."
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Cisco Wraps Arms Around Enterprise Computing March 16, 2009 
Networking giant Cisco Systems unveiled a slew of new products and services Monday that promise to simplify, consolidate and lower the cost of running vast computer networks at large businesses. The new products and services fall under an initiative Cisco calls the "Unified Computing System," which unites computing, networking, storage access and virtualization into a scalable, single system.
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New Ways to Ride the Netbook Wave March 11, 2009 
Despite the current economics, netbook sales have been growing at double-digit rates. It's one of the few hot spots in the consumer computing space. There are now more than 50 vendors with an offering across EMEA! What's really interesting is the shift toward the importance of the telco channel in accelerating netbooks sales.
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Clamping Down on Enterprise Wireless Expenses March 05, 2009 
As mobile services become increasingly complicated and businesses look to find extra money, there is a technological solution that can offer companies peace-of-mind. The solution is known simply as wireless expense management, which has allowed some companies to save upwards of $5 million in their yearly wireless expenses by making wireless bills less cumbersome.
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Stringer Shakes Up Struggling Sony February 27, 2009 
Sony CEO Howard Stringer has taken over the stumbling company's main consumer electronics business after removing Ryoji Chubachi from the helm. Stringer, who has been with Sony since 1997 after a long career in television, will replace Chubachi as president.
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HP, Sun Buddy Up to Offer Solaris on ProLiant Servers February 26, 2009 
Rivals Sun Microsystems and HP have inked a new multiyear agreement that enables HP to sell and support Sun's Solaris operating system on HP ProLiant server and blade system computers. The new deal's intent is to increase demand for Solaris on both HP ProLiant servers and server blades in new markets.
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Figuring Out the Best Way to Stash Your Data February 26, 2009 
By 2010, the amount of data added annually to computer systems worldwide will swell to 988 exabytes, according to an 2007 EMC-sponsored report from IDC. A 2008 update on the report found that in 2007, the digital universe measured 281 billion gigabytes -- 281 exabytes -- an increase 10 percent greater than analysts had predicted a year earlier.
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Read All About It -- 3 Ways to Spare a Tree February 14, 2009 
OK, you heard Oprah rave about the Kindle, and you were so impressed that you ordered one. Then you ended up waiting because the darn thing was out of stock -- for months! Your patience is being rewarded, and you'll be getting the improved version 2 of the Kindle, which has more memory to store books, better battery life, an improved screen and more intuitive buttons. And the same exact price tag: $359.
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