How to Win CFO Friends and Influence Business People
April 23, 2009Conventional wisdom and decades' worth of IT project failures and less-than-desirable outcomes tell us that every tech-related investment-from a massive SAP ERP rollout to a small Salesforce.com SaaS CRM deployment-comes with some amount of risk.
Lenovo shows tool to manage encrypted drives
April 22, 2009PC maker Lenovo hopes to give IT managers a helping hand with encrypted hard drive systems after announcing a new password management tool.
Western Digital unveils 1TB TiVo external drive
April 22, 2009Western Digital today announced the availability of a 1TB version of its My DVR Expander for TiVo boxes for recording television programming.
New Intel chips prompt rise in demand for DDR3 memory
April 22, 2009A new series of Intel microprocessors aimed at the computer server market has caused a spike in demand for DDR3 (double data rate, third generation) DRAM chips, according to Samsung Electronics.
100 Gigabit Ethernet: Bridge to Terabit Ethernet
April 22, 2009IT managers who are getting started with -- or even pushing the limits of -- 10 Gigabit Ethernet in their LANs and data centers won't have to wait long for higher speed connectivity.
VMware vows to overhaul data center with 'cloud OS'
April 22, 2009VMware has unveiled vSphere, the long-awaited overhaul of its core virtualization platform that is designed to aggregate the virtual resources in the data center into one centrally managed computing pool.
Seagate announces new green desktop drives
April 22, 2009Seagate today announced a new family of lower-power desktop drives under its Barracuda line. The drives use 25% less power than standard 3.5-in. desktop drives.
Schooner touts SSD appliance as replacement for eight traditional servers
April 22, 2009Start-up Schooner Technology has begun beta trials for its new solid-state disk appliances, which it said can replace up to eight traditional servers, reduce space needs and power costs and boost performance for MySQL and Memcached environments.
Broadcom makes bid to buy Emulex for $764M
April 22, 2009Following a rejected offer in January, Broadcom made an unsolicited bid to purchase Emulex for $764 million.
VMware partners line up for vSphere launch
April 21, 2009The speaker list for the launch of VMware's vSphere "cloud operating system" on Tuesday shows how important the company's virtualization software has become to the world of IT: Michael Dell, Cisco's John Chambers, EMC's Joe Tucci and Intel's Pat Gelsinger are all expected to attend the event at VMware's headquarters, along with VMware President and CEO Paul Maritz.