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Verizon Business outlined its strategy for pushing its security portfolio into the cloud. The announcement is meant to complement the company’s on-premise MSS (managed security service) offerings, and will be rolled out in phases between June and early next year. “Secure connectivity is the natural entrée into higher-end services of the everything-as-a-service model…CAAS, cloud-based storage […]

EMC execs must love the month of May, when the company can host and feed scores of partners and customers, do some razzle-dazzling of potential buyers, and share news of new products and services at its EMC World conference. Usually, the event is staged in a resort-like place like Orlando, Fla. This year, the world’s […]

The software piracy rate inched up globally last year, costing the IT industry billions of dollars, according to the seventh annual Business Software Alliance/IDC Global Software Piracy Study. The piracy rate is the percentage of software installed on PCs in a given year that is unlicensed. In 2009, that rate increased two percentage points to […]

Lenovo has introduced a number of new PCs in multiple form factors, including notebooks, all-in-one PCs, a net top and slim desktop towers. Geared toward consumers, the PCs run Microsoft Windows 7 and feature processor and graphics options from Advanced Micro Devices, Nvidia and Intel. The newest members of the Lenovo IdeaPad Z series are […]

In a recent Evans Data study, a large majority of surveyed developers said they are dissatisfied with the 30/70 split they get from developing applications for popular app stores. In its Spring North American Development Survey, Evans Data found that 80 percent of surveyed developers in North America said they think they should receive more […]

BOSTON – EMC is planning to roll out a host of storage networking products and services later this year as part of its initiative in enabling the evolution of private clouds. At the EMC World 2010 show here May 10, EMC officials announced a converged networking strategy aimed at data centers. The strategy includes expanded […]

Three former Sun Microsystems executives have set up shop at an open-source enterprise application software provider called ForgeRock. Former Sun executives Simon Phipps, Lasse Andresen and Hermann Svoren have joined Oslo-based ForgeRock in prominent positions. ForgeRock is the official steward of the ForgeRock I3 Open Platform project. “The ForgeRock I3 Open Platform provides a secure […]

BOSTON – Much of EMC’s focus on the first day of the EMC World 2010 show here is on cloud computing, something that many IT vendors, analysts and others are talking about. However, according to EMC CEO Joe Tucci, the storage giant has a different view of the future of cloud computing. In his keynote […]

BOSTON – EMC officials are unveiling the first product in their Virtual Storage strategy that is expected to eventually enable businesses to move large amounts of stored data anywhere in the world without the latency and bandwidth problems that traditionally have been tied to storage. At the first full day of the EMC World 2010 […]

IT researcher IDC reported May 10 that the combination of “an aging server installed base and IT managers’ desire to rein in increasingly complex virtual and physical infrastructure” along with a general upturn in the buying environment is boosting sales of commodity-type servers used in public and private cloud computing systems. Based on its first […]

Video conferencing equipment vendor Polycom has a new CEO: former Cisco Systems and Tandberg executive Andrew Miller was named to the post May 10. Miller replaces Robert Hagerty, who is resigning as CEO and board chairman and is leaving his position on the board. Miller’s appointment is effective immediately, and Hagerty will stay around a […]

Hewlett-Packard could be releasing a tablet running the Palm’s webOS operating system as soon as the third quarter of 2010, according to a report from The Examiner, which attributes the information to “an insider at HP.” The tablet, according to the report, would be called the HP “Hurricane.” The news follows recent rumors that HP […]