Year: 2009

  • A Leaner IT to Get More Strategic in 2010

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    Business leaders may be looking to IT as more of a strategic tool rather than just a cost center as we enter into 2010, a year that many believe could bring an economic recovery. That’s because so many businesses put the clamp down on IT spending in 2009 during the deep global economic recession. And… Read more

  • Google Revamps Search Engine for Real Time

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    (Reuters) – Google Inc has revamped its search engine to allow results to be refreshed with up-to-the-second data increasingly churned out by the new crop of real-time Web products. The move to integrate real-time search results directly into Google’s flagship Web search product comes nearly two months after the company announced a partnership to license… Read more

  • ERP Woes Today’s Apps Still Not Cutting It

    ERP Woes Today’s Apps Still Not Cutting It
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    ERP Woes Today’s Apps Still Not Cutting It Enterprises Rely on ERPToday’s enterprises rely heavily on existing ERP to manage change and react quickly to market shifts and customer needs. IDC’s survey results show that a large number of today’s ERP implementations actually impede change because systems lack the necessary architectural agility to help companies… Read more

  • Seagate Goes Public on Solid State Disk Drives

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    Solid state disk drives (SSDs) are arguably the sexiest product in the current storage industry, but they’re also a very small part of the market. That should change in 2010, which is why HDD kingpin Seagate is officially announcing its entry into this market with the Pulsar. It’s been shipping the product to large OEMs… Read more

  • Ingram Micro Brings Cisco Vblock Designs to Broader Channel

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    Cisco’s Vblock infrastructure architecture isn’t just for giant solution providers anymore.  IT distribution giant Ingram Micro this week announced that it would make the Cisco, EMC and VMware’s Vblock data center reference designs, the products to build them, and the support needed to do it, available to the 2,500 of its channel partners who are… Read more

  • Kace Patches Up Patch Tuesday

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    For hackers and cybercrooks, the twelve days of Christmas are also known as Patch Tuesday, the second Tuesday of every month when Microsoft provides the latest information on its security vulnerabilities, detailing how to take advantage of the world’s largest installed IT customer base. It’s a real headache for customers, says Ken Ross, senior product… Read more