Flash storage vendor STEC is super-sizing the kind of flash storage used in smartphones and portable music players, coming out on Monday with 2TB SSDs in configurations for enterprise equipment vendors. The SSDs (solid-state drives) being ...
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Dell is planning to release by mid-year a computer that's all of 3.5 inches long and 1.5 inches wide. It's not much bigger in girth than a USB stick, and is similar in design. This Wi-Fi enabled device is designed to be plugged into ...
Federal agencies, including the Defense Department, are facing unprecedented budget problems that are creating a new reality for government IT. IT managers are turning to agile development to speed up projects and to quickly show their ...
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General Motors CIO Randy Mott Thursday said the automaker plans to have the"best jobs in the IT industry"at its four"IT Innovation Centers"in the U.S.At the same time,Mott criticized Hewlett-Packard's move to contest GM's hiring of some HP ...
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Euclid, the leading retail analytics company, announces the launch of Euclid Zero, the first zero-hardware solution for real-world shopper analytics. With a single click, Euclid Zero gives retailers, malls and other venues the ability to ...
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Hewlett-Packard reduced its workforce last year by 17,800 employees, more than half way to the restructuring goal it announced last year. Most of the departures came via layoffs, though some key IT workers left unexpectedly. The company ...
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Palo Alto Networks Tuesday unveiled the first virtualized version of its next-generation firewall, server-based software intended to run on the VMware platform to allow security managers to set up firewall application-layer controls in ...
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Dell is back in the tablet market after laying low for a few months, announcing the XPS 10 tablet, which has an ARM processor and Microsoft's upcoming Windows RT OS. The XPS 10 is intended for work and play, said Alison Gardner, director ...
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Lenovo Monday said that its lighter, quicker ThinkPad, unveiled last spring as part of an effort to attract buyers more interested in smartphones and tablets than PCs, will go on sale later this month. Lenovo's ThinkPad X1 Carbon. And ...
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IDG News Service-Corporate boards are prioritizing IT spending as highly as investments in sales operations,according to research announced Monday by analyst firm Gartner. IT and sales were tied as the top two priorities among 175 board ...
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With Black Friday just a week away and the nagging feeling that we need to get our holiday shopping done, how much online buying will be done at work? If it's not, this is the question that should be on IT managers' minds, according to ...
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ownCloud launches program specifically designed for schools, colleges, universities and researchers ownCloud Inc., the commercial entity behind the popular open source file sync and share project, today announced a special program to get ...
PeakColo is now able to use its deep experience in running reliable and secure datacenters to offer developers and IT managers an easier way to host and manage their web applications. PeakColo, Inc, one of the fastest growing service ...
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More than half of IT decision-makers have cited power efficiency as their number one priority in the datacentre for the next three to five years, according to a study of 250 IT executives. The research by Computacenter revealed that ...
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IBM is set to provide free programmes, training courses and resources for IT professionals and educators in a bid to narrow the skills gap. With the mission of preparing students for real-world business challenges, IBM will be offering ...
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